By Artificial intelligence is set to usher in changes to almost every industry over the next two decades, affecting our lives to a potentially greater degree than the internet did in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The film industry has already begun to both embrace and despise the tech, actors and writers engaging in strikes last Summer in response to the potential dangers of it regarding rights.
Oscar winning actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck, appearing at the CNBC Delivering Alpha investor summit this week (via The Playlist), says he believes films are safe from AI use taking over – especially when it comes to core elements like writing.
Affleck adds that there will be benefits to the tech to, making the filmmaking process more cost-effective in ways that allows more voices to be heard:
“Movies will be one of the last things, if everything gets replaced, to be replaced by AI. AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan. It cannot write you Shakespeare.
What AI is going to do is dis-intermediate the more laborious, less creative, and more costly aspects of filmmaking that will allow costs to be brought down, that will lower the barrier to entry, that will allow more voices to be heard, that will make it easier for the people want to make ‘Good Will Huntings’ to go out and make it.”
He also acknowledges one of the main problems with A.I. from a creative perspective is that it seems to only learn from what’s already existing, instead of creating something new.
No feature length films have been completely AI-generated as yet, but A.I. certainly has been used in aspects of filmmaking for years now and that is only expected to increase.
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