The Future Of Movies

[poliphilo]

 Judy is annoyed about a book that says Hollywood is finished because in a few years time movies will be entirely constructed in AI- with no need for actors or cinematographers and- what hits her hardest- screen writers.

I'm not going tp play the prophet but I'm inclined to think- as she does- that old-style movie making will continue as a craft- just as other things superceded by the machine have done- like cabinet making or lace making or watercolour painting.

All the same I cannot help noticing how AI image-making proceeds by leaps and bounds. I have been making AI pictures for less than two years and when I started it was cutting edge and now the things I'm producing are looking a bit old hat. This morning on YouTube I was watching some nice little clips of people walking with dinosaurs that were created using MidJourney. Very good they were too. Effects that once cost millions can now be knocked off in someone's back bedroom. 

Comments

[cmcmck]

But in the end my poetry is still my poetry and AI doesn't have my life experiences.

[poliphilo]

I doubt that Ai is ever going to write either a good poem or a good novel, but I'm sure there will be attempts.....

[paserbyp]

Good poem and good novel? Indeed, but could AI will do as Shakespeare or Tolstoy did?

To be or not to be, that is the question?

[poliphilo]

Never say never, but I can't see AI writing Hamlet or War and Peace.

[cmcmck]

It'd be a bit like monkeys and typewriters! :o)

[shewhomust]

In someone's back bedroom, yes, but only because their back bedroom is plugged in to massive resources...

[poliphilo]

True....