People, I hate to break it to you, but acting is something people do every day. Great acting may be more rare, but most actors aren't great, and AI will soon demonstrate how easily this can be accomplished.
100% We can build (train) dedicated AI agent to truly think they are the character we envision, so in reality it will not even be acting to the AI. We can have them play out the scene thousands of times in just seconds, while another agent AI can be trained to be a director and tell the character AI what it wants. We will be talking to a director AI telling them what we are looking for or want changed. The entire AI field will be no different than just talking in plain language to all these highly skilled agents, lighting agents, sound agents, editors, and each one or each team will perform the same as real humans do now. Exciting and utterly frightening at the same time.
No it wont, simply because that's not what people want. AI won't replace arts, it will make them more valuable if anything. It will replaces all the mundane intermediaries of art. AI is a tool not an artist. It is the brush, not the painter. People like art because of the inter-personalization that occurs between consumers and artists. This will never exist with AI.
Anyone who thinks AI won’t replace almost every job in filmmaking is naive or ignorant. Like Patrick said, we’ll see who’s right in 10 years. 10 years from now the movie world will look radically different.
When was the last time you watched a really good movie or heard a good rock band? When Hollywood turned DARK it prevented the GOOD new actors and musicians from getting in. The end.
@@Jrome3"hey hey, my my , Rock & Roll will never die, there is more to the picture than Mets the eye. My My, hey hey Rock & Roll is here to stay, it is better to burn out, than fade away. My my hey hey" - Neil Young
Dune 2, Inside out 2, Penguin, Oppenheimer, poor things, Reacher, The boys, succession, the bear, shogun, fallout, flower moon, the promised land, American fiction, Air, the holdovers, a real pain.
AI will never know what happiness is thats the point we all yearn and fight for happiness on a daily basis ai obviously will never be able to do that emotion is alive INTELLIGENCE has nothing to do with happiness btw artificial or not btw ice used to be called artificial ice so AI in the future will be called Intelligence not artificial intelligence has nothing to do with being happy something a machine is not able to do
What he said is correct. They already doing this for gaming, where AI up resolution and you don’t need editors that spend 100+ hours when Ai can automatically does it.
Wishful thinking... If you think for one minute that AI will not be able to produce marketable movies in the near future, you simply don't have a clear understanding of the function of AI. If anything prevents AI from replacing human actors, it will be protectionalism.
It probably will get to a certain point of speeding up stuff for touch ups but i am pretty sure that they will have the same animations teams editing it. The most realistic thing I see is maybe having ai being able to speed of animation on already rendered models. Like telling Mario to do a back flip on bowser’s head will generate a simple animation from the models.
AI will never produce marketable movies in the near or distant future. I have a very clear understanding that AI will never replace actors, and not just because of protectionism.
if a psychopath that lacks empathy can fool people around them into believing they are normal by imitating those around him, imagine AI learning and imitating people from billions of examples of real people and hundreds of billions of simulated people and emotions. These numbers are conservative and will grow exponentially every year AI starts improving itself.
It won't be that long from now when some guy in a basement can write a script, upload it to a website, and it'll spit out a 2-3 hour movie. The creative part will be assembled by a writer / artist / movie maker and inputted into the AI in the form of a script, character details and some visual imagery. And AI will create a movie.
I learned long ago… never say “Never Will That happen!” Because it most certainly does happen… eventually. AI’s advancements in the last few years is phenomenal… once quantum computing get normalized, the opportunities on the horizon will be close to infinite.
I have a family member that works in visual effects (he worked on Shogun and Fallout and a few other big shows). He says that AI won’t replace visual effects artists, but it will add tools that will drastically speed up the process. He said, let’s say there’s 20 steps to building a vfx shot. AI may allow us to skip the first 10 which will radically change the game. VFX artists will use AI to get to 10, and the. Touch things up to adjust them to 20 but the added time will push boundaries of what could be feasible to accompl
Your statement says jobs will be lost "instead of 10 steps take 20" well, instead of 50 people let's use 15. I've used video generating programs; runwayML, by 2030... It's OVER. Right now it's iPhone 2/3, by 2030, iPhone 8. Industry collapse is coming
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"Highly unlikely," in the future? Please! It is highly likely. Don't bet against the future. It was just a few years ago when they said AI would never write poems or make music. There's even a TEDTalk education video of about 7 years ago that completely dismissed that AI could perform creative tasks.
AI will never replace true filmmaking. AI imitates, it doesn't create the same kind of nuance that filmmakers can. when CGI came to prominence, especially with cgi characters like Gollum, that were very convincing, many said that in a few years, they'll replace actors and can be customizable. How'd that turn out? 😂
@morenol1990 What is "true film making"? By the way, everything is imitation. Even as Ben affect says what AI does is "cross-pollinate," the irony of his statement escapes him, as what all artists ajd creators do is cross pollinate, what varies is the degree, depth and measure of rarity by which it happens. And if any artists deny this about their own process of creating things, then they aren't self-aware, nor do they understand how the brain works. Therefore, to say never is an absolute that should never be used in this world, for history has shown that given enough passage of time, "never" is ever "never." To say 'never' is to be short of imagination. Imagination is where creation is born.
@kamu747 by not being lazy and actually making a goddamn movie with lights, cameras (or animation) collaboration with artists and actors. I say never as an absolute. AI is not filmmaking and is by definition the antithesis of what a film is.
@morenol1990 Alright, regarding your of what true film-making is, I'll give you that, if filmmaking to you means "a story or event recorded by a camera" as this includes digital filming (since at one time only stories recorded "using a a thin, flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, but not digital recordings were considered true film making.) So you're right. It isn't "true filmmaking," but it will eventually replace filmmaking as the evolution of storytelling through new forms and mediums. The natural progression of what mankind has always done - creates new ways to tell stories. AI employed in storytelling isn't lazy. It is actually skilled effort and not as easy as most people think. The best 2-minute stories created through AI-generation tool assistance take days to make, hundreds, and sometimes thousands of generated content. This will probably improve. Granted, it doesn't take as much time as traditional media, but it takes work. Some call what takes less time to achieve results improved efficiency. You should try making a 2-minute, well executed story and tell me if it's lazy work. It's only by doing that you will actually truly appreciate the work it takes. Resistance to change is natural, and it's good. It means the change is meaningful. Sadly, sometimes, it takes the current generation to get out of the way, for evolution to gain pace. The new generations of people who aren't stuck on how things used to be will be the ones to embrace this technology wholeheartedly and take it to the next level.
@kamu747 none of this is true. First off, I never said that filmmaking always involved a camera, film or digital, hence why I emphasized animation which involves no camera at all. True filmmaking is not a one size fits all where you write a prompt and let the computer/AI make the movie for you, because that's not how it works. True filmmaking is about a group of people getting together, collaborating to create the art of moving images to life. It involves a lot of problem solving with many different departments and fields working together to make a story that is worthwhile. I don't have a problem with AI being used as a tool to help create a movie, but the art should not be solely created by an algorithm with very little or no human activity. This is what separates truly talented artists and hacks like you. You don't want to create, you just to fabricate without the time, effort, blood sweat and tears and hard work. There's literally no skill in sitting on your lazy ass to write a prompt on your computer and then wait for the algorithm to spit out a Frankensteins monster of whatever garbage it spills out. I don't mind change. When the industry switched to photoshop and cgi over oil painted backgrounds, it was a shift to help make the image more convincing. But make no mistake, it didn't take away skilled artists and collaboration between filmmakers to be able to create great cinematic works of art. AI will never get to where True filmmaking is. You can't write a prompt and expect the Godfather. It will never happen. If my own mom can write a prompt and make her own movie in under a minute, then why would anyone ever watch anything you make with AI?
I thought Affect's take was a bit too optimistic, but I wouldn't doubt him. There is a great 2003 interview with him predicting the turn to streaming services for studios.
Yeah but id rather pay to watch a Ben Affleck movie than pay to watch an AI created movie that took Hollywood 5 seconds to make by prompting it. Until AI thinks for itself and has original ideas I don’t care about any art created by it because they are just stealing ideas and styles from human artist who put in the work and used their life experiences to create their art.
@@APS-yo8oy Addiction of relevance? How do you figure that has anything to do with the topic at hand. Pretender game? Yeah, doing make believe at a high level does have its perks. Not easy, though. Not even learnable.
Actors aren’t replaceable. I don’t care how good AI gets. People want to watch actual people. Sometimes people like animated stuff. Or AI stuff. But people will always watch acting. For the same reason they watch sports or live music.
For every Avengers movie we also get movies like The Covenant & Sisu who did action & emotion brilliantly. Strongly disagree that we have to go back to ‘Scent of a Woman’ for good movies when in the past 20 years we’ve gotten films like; The Departed, No Country For Old Men, Argo (shoutout Afleck), Spotlight, Green Book, 12 Years A Slave, Pursuit of Happiness, Oppenheimer ect. Come on Vinny don’t be a boomer just yet.
AI will soon be able make 400 movies from the same script with subtle and major differences, create an artificial audience with regional and ethnic sensibilities in order to screen test each result and create rankings in order to know which ones will make the most money in which demographic. The characters in these movies will be able to replicate and improve on every actor that ever lived. People will watch old movies out of nostalgia, that whole industry is about to undergo a phase change disruption.
Ya nobody realizes what's coming and lurking a few steps away around the next corner. People are clueless and it's not gonna be fun in a few years trying to navigate the disruption and chaos coming. Humanity will be lucky to survive.
Ben is very eloquently making a basic mistake... He thinks the people who create the VFX aren't artists as well, they are because they are creating the world just as much as the actors, is a group effort. Therefore, if AI can replace the VFX artists it just as easily could replace the actors. There's a difference between philosophy and sophism... One is actually thinking things through.
He's coping hard and doesn't want to admit that AI will replace actors by the end of this decade. Human actors will be relegated to performing in stage plays and musicals.
1:25 No offense but Hollywood itself can't do Shakespeare right now as they constantly remaking movies ....secondly! if imaginary characters from CGI like Groot or Rocked from #GOTG , the toy story cast, cars , Shreck can steal our hearts and blow our minds then I don't see why AI characters won't
He is ABSOLUTELY wrong. That's a early Gen X take on tech. For AI to write emotionap stuff and make it look emotional is already achievable with AI music. Emotions in Art comes from hesitancy & nuance in playing parts. Guess what? There's an algorithm to that... VFX are done. Finished. Even landscape photography as people's brain been fed the AI drug of out of this world scenery... There's mo going back for Normie World once they've seen it...
Benjamin Géza Affleck is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and philanthropist. He has won two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. Affleck's career began as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi. He rose to prominence after his breakthrough performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, which he wrote with[" longtime friend and actor Matt Damon."]
Ben, when is the last time we had a Goodwill Hunting movie? Hollywood is dying,everyone is sick of these Hollywood people and I know because my spouse works for the studios and ever since the strike only 20% of production is up and running. The union workers behind the scenes that make the sets are dying for work..there are still a ton of union members struggling to find work because they just aren't making much like they use to.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function", Bartlett. Moores law is not dead, chips are about to get much more powerful and A.I will stun all of us.
I'm an AI filmmaker and think that Ben is whistling past the graveyard. Actors will be replaced as well. Runway's Act One feature is the first step in this direction and a year from now will be way more advanced. I also take issue with the idea that AI is just regurgitating stuff that already exists. I am able to prompt entirely original imagery.
@@Superpig500 That's like saying you saw early silent films from the 1890s and that the tech would never advance from there. AI filmmaking is in its infancy - but, unlike with traditional filmmaking, it is advancing by leaps and bounds every few months, instead of every few decades. Let's see if you're still giggling in 2026.
Ben is wrong. Lionsgate has already signed with Runway to make an LLM from their 20,000 films. They know what's coming. And so does anyone who understands how LLMs and transformers work. Actors are history. You won't need locations, sets, stuntmen or extras. And the people behind the camera will disappear to, except for an AI director and a screenprompter, not a screenwriter. And eventually that may be replaced by AI agents.
Ben is wrong. Ai has already shown that it can do very well and even dominate in the artistic world. Winning the photography competition is a good example. It only has to understand the creation process. Given enough data, it will be better than any person on the creativity side as well.
Understand the creation process. Yeah, that tiny little thing :) You can throw tons of iron on it and churn and churn but it would take AGI to get there, at the very least.
@JuhoTunkelo maybe when creating something out of nothing in terms of an invention will take some time, but the "creative" side of things like acting, singing, or song writing for example will be easily replicated by good AI. Once graphics are indistinguishable from a real actor, they will almost become obsolete.
@@Kevin-hl8zi Easily replicated? Heh. There really is a massive difference between technological capability and actual conscious creativity. Ben knows the difference, as do most in a creative profession. The rest seem to have a good deal of trouble grasping it.
@@JuhoTunkelo a small niche will exist due to those who will want to watch "real" people act, but the majority won't care and will watch whatever is good. Ben is living off of hope but will eventually sell his image to large movie producers. Anyone who has not yet realized this is simply delusional. Make your money now if you are in an artistic type of job because before you know it, it will be your hobby.
How "creative" are most Hollywood films though? It's mostly the same stuff, slightly repackaged and churned out over and over. AI doesn't have to be that creative, it just needs to reproduce the facade of creativity. Which it will be able to do.
Exactly, to say AI is not creative, AI is doing exactly what hollywood is doing now. But I think AI could actually innovate movies and music becoming far more creative in the hands of people not bound by old paradigms.
Everyone is saying "AI will come for these guys jobs, but not mine. I'm too creative to be replaced by a robot". I got news for you, AI is coming for every one's job. Except mine.
When I saw Affleck directed Argo, I gained a lot of respect for him…he was also good in Gone Girl. I grew up with him in crappy movies in 00s prior to that haha
4:47 if you wanna see really good acting, rewind the video of Ben Affleck again. He made absolutely genius points and that's why I know he's acting. Every time he acts that's exactly the performance he gives. That's why he's so good at what he does
Perfect example of the natural inclination for humans to think we are uniquely special. Everything every human alive does is a learned behavior. Every sentence is a combination or string of words from previously learned data. Go to Claude and ask it to write you a short story. Then tell it to be original and not just regurgitate clichés. The story it came up with was amazing and I know it was original. What's the difference?
AI will be able to replace actors and actresses, however I do not think it will ever be able to completely replace producers/directors and in particular writers because that's where "taste" comes in. It will most definitely supplement them and improve their efficiency but as someone who actually works as DS/ML with LLMs, we are not there yet. Plus we would need to have much more stable power grids and more electricity production to actually power these massive gpu server farms.
People are missing his point. The problem is that AI cannot iterate. Before all the "experts" jump on and bash that comment, think about it. You cannot ask AI to make something better. It can only run it again. That is what he is saying. I work with AI every day. It is far more limited in creativity and iteration than people realize. It is great at running replications, calculations or processes. It is very bad at nuance.
Bad nuance. LOL. Tell me about it! I use it for hours daily. It’s a great tool. It allows me to accomplish things I wouldn’t be able to otherwise. That being said, it’s not always an easy process. I find myself frequently arguing with its stupidity. It will get in a continuous loop and not realize it. It will do something stupid, and promise to never do it again…then immediately do it again. So it can be frustrating, but at the same time, It’s helping me do something I don’t know how to do. What I find interesting is that sometimes it starts going down a path that I think doesn’t make sense. I’ll call it out and ask it “what if we do this,” Or “that’s stupid. That’s not what I told you I wanted.” So at least 50% of the time I come up with the solution, but I’d not without it. But what drives me the craziest is it constant apologies and empty promises. Just STFU and do it right. LOL
@@JuhoTunkelo very little in this world is truly original. Any book written relies on a language already created. The speed that AI is improving at, it will be no surprise when it can have thought that would be considered original. That actors think they have some unique skill is kind of funny. It's just playing pretend, all kids do it.
The little that I have used ChatGBT or Meta's AI....the overwhelming feeling is that it is VERY good at formatting and spitting back information. Its creative ability, at best, is predictable. However, it is unsurpassed in its ability to consolidate and collate information. As Picaso said, "computers are useless because they can only give you answers."
I'm realizing more and more how people under estimate the Power of AI advancement, we are at the very beginning, its already wild ! The landscape is going to be vastly different 10 yrs from now
Yeah, A.I will far surpass human actors and storytelling. lol i love these guys but this is gonna age like milk. ASI will create more then all of cumulative human intelligence combined and at this rate in less then 10 years ASI will become Digital God. we just started the beginning of the curve straight up with AI or AGI.... ASI mind blown!
AI can solve mathematical equations that are unknown and some also developed its own language. I don't think people are more cautious about AI than we should.
Tons of great original films are still coming out today they just don’t get as much shine because they come from lower level production houses. A24 is a perfect example, they’ve been arguably responsible for the greatest films being released in recent years (in terms of consistency). All original, majority rooted in reality, “good will hunting” type stories that you can resonate with on a personal level. I agree Hollywood is cooked when it comes to the top tier production houses but if you dig a little deeper you’d be surprised how much great work is still being made…
Maybe yes, but will anybody care. Im at the point when i see a music video or something created with AI I just close or skip it. It have no soul no art in it
ive been playing with ai for several and hes not entirely wrong. the place where ai will shine, is in production. you'll still need actors. youll need bodies. and youll need base voices. however, you dont need the actors to look a certain way or have a specific voice. voice ai models can replicate speech patterns. the ai has to be combined with things. its not ready, not in the next two or three years even, to do it all on its own. as long as you have a decent voice actor and a body to make the basic movements, stand in the right spot, etc. then ai can and will do the thing. another area where he is right is giving people with no hollywood budget behind them the ability to make competitive content. where the second guy is wrong is that they assume that there is no human intervention or creative expression in the process of making things with ai. this is because these guys truly dont understand how ai works. the third guy is pretty wrong too. what the ai does is learn what concepts are via pattern recognition, math, and language association. it can then create things that meet those patterns. it doesnt take bits and pieces of things and recompile them. give it a few years. lol.
Ai is good?…..tell that to the billions who think the new Christmas Coca-Cola add is freaky and ridiculous. They tried to pull the wool and didn’t work. The trucks look like they sliding in snow rather then rolling lol, faces and movements, the whole story is just incoherent mess Ai is horrible and always will be. Why we have horrible movies and such is their using Ai to write dumb movies. No human element, no soul, no warmth. You can tell Ai writing you can tell Ai video from a human thought piece. Just like woke, the movies that will do well, the movies that will have a cult following will be non Ai movies. Ben is in a bubble.
I think Ben Affleck is wrong on the acting part, it's not if, but when AI is equal or surpasses humans at acting...but it's not going to be acting. The AI characters we will build will truly think they are the character, they will not be acting. You build them to be the persona you want, you will simulate (train them) thousands if not millions of times until they are so convinced they are the character, they will be that character you will not even be able to convince them they are not. And I'm not talking about simulated a copyrighted character an AI could watch or simulate perfectly, you can have a fresh canvas if you want. Plus the idea of what movies are will change, the format, length, open ended, playable...etc. Traditional movies will still be around, we still have musicals and broadway, AI will just be a whole new genre. Human actors will be around, they will even continue to think they are better than AI😄 and I hope they are, but AI will do things they can't. There is only a few truly gifted actors, and we will still have actors, musicians, artists, maybe even more as AI opens a new door...Oh comedy will be the last and toughest to duplicate, dramatic actors hate me, but being funny is far more difficult than being serious or dramatic, actors that pull of both are really amazing. Could be just years, certainly not decades, AI actors will be as good or better. AI writers already on par with humans for the most part, but creativity is not yet there, it will be.
I completely disagree. In 100 years, who is to say that AI can not be creative. Think 1925, 1st TV image, Phototelegraphy, the 1st circuit breaker. Cars were even limited on the road. 17 million. NOW try 296 million. So who is to say.
Music and Film have already degraded in quality due to one marketing concept, formula. On that basis, AI can permutate formulas and humans can choose which one is preferred and edit. Most of the work on all levels will be done by Ai. Since it's a formula, the AI can basically use references from the actor's past work and adapt to new formulas. As the chips continue to evolve,, the the training capacity improves. The technology curve has already been broken because AI can interact with other applications and accelerate training time to seconds or less. The frontier of human existence is what it's always been, self-cultivation of mind, body, and soul. We just will be less distracted, and more devoted thereby accelerating our evolution.
Human beings derive their creations from lived experiences and shared discussions which become ideas. Ben is arguing our creations come from an unattainable divine inspiration, this is likely false. Almost everything we do originates from something we’ve experienced with our senses or discussed / picked up from another. It’s a religious argument so there is no way to debate it, but as more work is generated it will become clear that even actors and storytellers are not any more special than the rest of us. Even if you believe his stance, the one thing he forgets is that there are millions of human written books on shelves with amazing stories that have never been translated to a visual medium. That alone would be enough material for AI to compete against human made work in entertainment. How many wonderful books have you read that you wish were made into TV/film? I can think of at least 100.
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If you interact with AI it will tell you itself that it can't replicate human insight and creativity. . I work in IT. AI is excellent for mundane tasks and basic scrips (albeit buggy) and also it's good at aggregating info but it's not very good at stepping outside of the box which is data provided...by us.
Does anyone know what date this segment with Ben Affleck was? I also love him as an actor but I don't follow them outside a film. Is it me, or does Bens face not move?
You guys are clueless. It's the human that builds the script and the characters via context or better known as a prompt. It will be a peer relationship between humans and AI. Actors are the largest cost and that will go because a production studio will cut cost especially when they can cut out an actor cost.
Writing and effects will be taken over by AI. Right now AI isn't really generating new its having examples fed into it and iterating on them to generate something close to what's already been. If it can create new thats a game changer.
You guys are missing a huge angle. It’s not just the movie that creates the actor. Is outside the movie set , the character people are drawn to and like and in some ways idolize. AI can create a movie, but not a human that tracts its audience outside of the film and award ceremonies and reality TV shows and everything else. People can’t attach to an Actor to that degree
You guys are discussing high-level philosophy, but you're missing the point. AI is electively outsourcing all jobs to the tech sector to do more efficiently than humans. It is a post-capitalist economy, no matter how you rationalize it.
Even if AI was perfect, people would still want to watch real people, the same way they want to listen to live music. And getting AI to produce perfect content would probably take so much effort and money that it might just be cheaper to film real people.
I think AI will eventually be able to do a decent job. By randomizing...or taking an existing concept and flipping it. There might be some human input required....like the AI program spits out 5 concepts...and a human chooses the best one. There is a structure to most films. These guys are implying wrongly that humans work in a vacuum. But we ourselves steel ideas from people that came before. So why couldn't AI do the same.
Very surprised that you don't have 1 or 2 Ai/Agi specialists and advisors on your team already. If you wanna stay ahead of the disruption starting next year during hard takeoff you should consider it cause it's coming like a freight train off Everest with no brakes.
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@@dertythegrower both can happen.
People, I hate to break it to you, but acting is something people do every day. Great acting may be more rare, but most actors aren't great, and AI will soon demonstrate how easily this can be accomplished.
Any day now. Just takes AGI, advanced robotics and solving the consciousness problem. And then applying it to acting. Any day now.
Won't it just study the great actors
AI will absolutely take the place of actors. Everything actors do is TEACHABLE.
100% We can build (train) dedicated AI agent to truly think they are the character we envision, so in reality it will not even be acting to the AI. We can have them play out the scene thousands of times in just seconds, while another agent AI can be trained to be a director and tell the character AI what it wants. We will be talking to a director AI telling them what we are looking for or want changed. The entire AI field will be no different than just talking in plain language to all these highly skilled agents, lighting agents, sound agents, editors, and each one or each team will perform the same as real humans do now. Exciting and utterly frightening at the same time.
No it wont, simply because that's not what people want. AI won't replace arts, it will make them more valuable if anything. It will replaces all the mundane intermediaries of art. AI is a tool not an artist. It is the brush, not the painter. People like art because of the inter-personalization that occurs between consumers and artists. This will never exist with AI.
That was an AI Ben affleck in an AI studio
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Pat said armageddon 4:31 I wish he said Godfather or The Shawshank Redemption 😂
I bet his beard was AI.
You can tell because it was sober.
Anyone who thinks AI won’t replace almost every job in filmmaking is naive or ignorant. Like Patrick said, we’ll see who’s right in 10 years. 10 years from now the movie world will look radically different.
When was the last time you watched a really good movie or heard a good rock band? When Hollywood turned DARK it prevented the GOOD new actors and musicians from getting in. The end.
Well said 👏
Over 25 yrs. ago...back in the '90s. Movies and music have been sh*t since the '90s. Especially music. Rock & Roll died years ago.😥
@@Jrome3"hey hey, my my , Rock & Roll will never die, there is more to the picture than Mets the eye. My My, hey hey Rock & Roll is here to stay, it is better to burn out, than fade away. My my hey hey" - Neil Young
@@williambenner701 , 😂🤣😂
Sorry but it's dead. What new/good R&R band is there now?
**Crickets chirping**
Dune 2, Inside out 2, Penguin, Oppenheimer, poor things, Reacher, The boys, succession, the bear, shogun, fallout, flower moon, the promised land, American fiction, Air, the holdovers, a real pain.
Imagine the tragedy of hollywood becoming irrelevant and fading into obscurity.
It's already happening.
@DeusExMachina50 i know. I'm loving it.
AI will never know what happiness is
thats the point
we all yearn and fight for happiness on a daily basis
ai obviously will never be able to do that
emotion is alive
INTELLIGENCE has nothing to do with happiness btw
artificial or not
btw ice used to be called artificial ice
so AI in the future will be called Intelligence not artificial
intelligence has nothing to do with being happy something a machine is not able to do
Well. Good storytelling and shared experiences will still have their place…
@@JuhoTunkelo There should never be a place for people like Diddy to hide their crimes.
There are alot of soulest acting in Hollywood this days, and most people are comfortable with it, so I'm sure AI is going to do just GREAT.
You can't imagine what AI is able to do !!!!!
Anyone remember when George Lucas said that someday average people would be able to make high quality movies in their garage?
What he said is correct. They already doing this for gaming, where AI up resolution and you don’t need editors that spend 100+ hours when Ai can automatically does it.
Exactly, Topaz AI, magnific, even the new Adobe premiere and Filmora
Wishful thinking... If you think for one minute that AI will not be able to produce marketable movies in the near future, you simply don't have a clear understanding of the function of AI.
If anything prevents AI from replacing human actors, it will be protectionalism.
They already did, this year.. most of you have only seen basic ai that is advertised through podcast hype
It probably will get to a certain point of speeding up stuff for touch ups but i am pretty sure that they will have the same animations teams editing it. The most realistic thing I see is maybe having ai being able to speed of animation on already rendered models. Like telling Mario to do a back flip on bowser’s head will generate a simple animation from the models.
Affleck doesn't know what he doesn't know. His thinking is ten years behind where AI is, and he's in denial about where it's going and how fast.
AI will never produce marketable movies in the near or distant future. I have a very clear understanding that AI will never replace actors, and not just because of protectionism.
@@e.l.nortonAffleck is an Oscar winning actor and knows a hell of a lot more on filmmaking than you or most people do. He's absolutely spot on.
give it some years, it will absolutely replace it all to perfection.
if a psychopath that lacks empathy can fool people around them into believing they are normal by imitating those around him, imagine AI learning and imitating people from billions of examples of real people and hundreds of billions of simulated people and emotions. These numbers are conservative and will grow exponentially every year AI starts improving itself.
It won't be that long from now when some guy in a basement can write a script, upload it to a website, and it'll spit out a 2-3 hour movie. The creative part will be assembled by a writer / artist / movie maker and inputted into the AI in the form of a script, character details and some visual imagery. And AI will create a movie.
I learned long ago… never say “Never Will That happen!” Because it most certainly does happen… eventually. AI’s advancements in the last few years is phenomenal… once quantum computing get normalized, the opportunities on the horizon will be close to infinite.
I have a family member that works in visual effects (he worked on Shogun and Fallout and a few other big shows). He says that AI won’t replace visual effects artists, but it will add tools that will drastically speed up the process. He said, let’s say there’s 20 steps to building a vfx shot. AI may allow us to skip the first 10 which will radically change the game. VFX artists will use AI to get to 10, and the. Touch things up to adjust them to 20 but the added time will push boundaries of what could be feasible to accompl
Your statement says jobs will be lost "instead of 10 steps take 20" well, instead of 50 people let's use 15.
I've used video generating programs; runwayML, by 2030... It's OVER.
Right now it's iPhone 2/3, by 2030, iPhone 8.
Industry collapse is coming
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Editing also has a human emotion element to it that is equally important to the actor that AI won’t be able to replicate.
"Highly unlikely," in the future? Please! It is highly likely.
Don't bet against the future. It was just a few years ago when they said AI would never write poems or make music. There's even a TEDTalk education video of about 7 years ago that completely dismissed that AI could perform creative tasks.
AI will never replace true filmmaking. AI imitates, it doesn't create the same kind of nuance that filmmakers can. when CGI came to prominence, especially with cgi characters like Gollum, that were very convincing, many said that in a few years, they'll replace actors and can be customizable. How'd that turn out? 😂
@morenol1990 What is "true film making"?
By the way, everything is imitation.
Even as Ben affect says what AI does is "cross-pollinate," the irony of his statement escapes him, as what all artists ajd creators do is cross pollinate, what varies is the degree, depth and measure of rarity by which it happens. And if any artists deny this about their own process of creating things, then they aren't self-aware, nor do they understand how the brain works.
Therefore, to say never is an absolute that should never be used in this world, for history has shown that given enough passage of time, "never" is ever "never."
To say 'never' is to be short of imagination. Imagination is where creation is born.
@kamu747 by not being lazy and actually making a goddamn movie with lights, cameras (or animation) collaboration with artists and actors. I say never as an absolute. AI is not filmmaking and is by definition the antithesis of what a film is.
@morenol1990
Alright, regarding your of what true film-making is, I'll give you that, if filmmaking to you means "a story or event recorded by a camera" as this includes digital filming (since at one time only stories recorded "using a
a thin, flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, but not digital recordings were considered true film making.)
So you're right. It isn't "true filmmaking," but it will eventually replace filmmaking as the evolution of storytelling through new forms and mediums. The natural progression of what mankind has always done - creates new ways to tell stories.
AI employed in storytelling isn't lazy. It is actually skilled effort and not as easy as most people think. The best 2-minute stories created through AI-generation tool assistance take days to make, hundreds, and sometimes thousands of generated content. This will probably improve. Granted, it doesn't take as much time as traditional media, but it takes work. Some call what takes less time to achieve results improved efficiency.
You should try making a 2-minute, well executed story and tell me if it's lazy work. It's only by doing that you will actually truly appreciate the work it takes.
Resistance to change is natural, and it's good. It means the change is meaningful. Sadly, sometimes, it takes the current generation to get out of the way, for evolution to gain pace. The new generations of people who aren't stuck on how things used to be will be the ones to embrace this technology wholeheartedly and take it to the next level.
@kamu747 none of this is true. First off, I never said that filmmaking always involved a camera, film or digital, hence why I emphasized animation which involves no camera at all. True filmmaking is not a one size fits all where you write a prompt and let the computer/AI make the movie for you, because that's not how it works.
True filmmaking is about a group of people getting together, collaborating to create the art of moving images to life. It involves a lot of problem solving with many different departments and fields working together to make a story that is worthwhile.
I don't have a problem with AI being used as a tool to help create a movie, but the art should not be solely created by an algorithm with very little or no human activity. This is what separates truly talented artists and hacks like you. You don't want to create, you just to fabricate without the time, effort, blood sweat and tears and hard work.
There's literally no skill in sitting on your lazy ass to write a prompt on your computer and then wait for the algorithm to spit out a Frankensteins monster of whatever garbage it spills out.
I don't mind change. When the industry switched to photoshop and cgi over oil painted backgrounds, it was a shift to help make the image more convincing. But make no mistake, it didn't take away skilled artists and collaboration between filmmakers to be able to create great cinematic works of art. AI will never get to where True filmmaking is. You can't write a prompt and expect the Godfather. It will never happen.
If my own mom can write a prompt and make her own movie in under a minute, then why would anyone ever watch anything you make with AI?
I thought Affect's take was a bit too optimistic, but I wouldn't doubt him. There is a great 2003 interview with him predicting the turn to streaming services for studios.
Typical self important actor thinks he's irreplacable
Nah he’s in the thick of it. He’s already sitting pretty, and not dependent of acting roles.
Yeah but id rather pay to watch a Ben Affleck movie than pay to watch an AI created movie that took Hollywood 5 seconds to make by prompting it. Until AI thinks for itself and has original ideas I don’t care about any art created by it because they are just stealing ideas and styles from human artist who put in the work and used their life experiences to create their art.
@@JuhoTunkelothe addiction of relevance far outweighs money at his level in the professional pretender game.
@@APS-yo8oy Addiction of relevance? How do you figure that has anything to do with the topic at hand. Pretender game? Yeah, doing make believe at a high level does have its perks. Not easy, though. Not even learnable.
Actors aren’t replaceable. I don’t care how good AI gets. People want to watch actual people. Sometimes people like animated stuff. Or AI stuff. But people will always watch acting. For the same reason they watch sports or live music.
For every Avengers movie we also get movies like The Covenant & Sisu who did action & emotion brilliantly. Strongly disagree that we have to go back to ‘Scent of a Woman’ for good movies when in the past 20 years we’ve gotten films like; The Departed, No Country For Old Men, Argo (shoutout Afleck), Spotlight, Green Book, 12 Years A Slave, Pursuit of Happiness, Oppenheimer ect. Come on Vinny don’t be a boomer just yet.
AI will soon be able make 400 movies from the same script with subtle and major differences, create an artificial audience with regional and ethnic sensibilities in order to screen test each result and create rankings in order to know which ones will make the most money in which demographic. The characters in these movies will be able to replicate and improve on every actor that ever lived. People will watch old movies out of nostalgia, that whole industry is about to undergo a phase change disruption.
Ya nobody realizes what's coming and lurking a few steps away around the next corner. People are clueless and it's not gonna be fun in a few years trying to navigate the disruption and chaos coming. Humanity will be lucky to survive.
It amazes me how oblivious most ares are of their future regarding AI.
Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. AI will never have imagination
Good point. Without imagination all you can do is iterate on what’s already there endlessly
@@JuhoTunkelothe carriage for horses makers didn’t see the combustion engine replacing them is this magical thing we call cars
@@JuhoTunkelou give humans way too much credit. Our monkey brains can comprehend the powers of exponential learning of AI
@@APS-yo8oy Give humans too much credit? That's funny. Who do you think keeps driving AI development? It's not happening all by itself...
@APS-yo8oy lol you spend so much time.e online you are becoming ai 😅
Ben is very eloquently making a basic mistake... He thinks the people who create the VFX aren't artists as well, they are because they are creating the world just as much as the actors, is a group effort. Therefore, if AI can replace the VFX artists it just as easily could replace the actors.
There's a difference between philosophy and sophism... One is actually thinking things through.
I think we’re gonna find out in just a few years. I don’t think it’s gonna take 10 years.
He's coping hard and doesn't want to admit that AI will replace actors by the end of this decade. Human actors will be relegated to performing in stage plays and musicals.
Heh. He’s beyond coping anyway. AI may advance but as long as it’s humans watching… we’ll prefer a human touch.
@@JuhoTunkelo No, we won't. Their politics ruined what little box office appeal they had left. It's OVER!
@@JuhoTunkeloYou won't be able to tell whether it's human or not.
@@Tater-Skinz lol you spend too much time on the internet 😅
@@Superpig500 Yes I do. And?
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1:25 No offense but Hollywood itself can't do Shakespeare right now as they constantly remaking movies ....secondly! if imaginary characters from CGI like Groot or Rocked from #GOTG , the toy story cast, cars , Shreck can steal our hearts and blow our minds then I don't see why AI characters won't
You might look down on this recommendation Vinnie. But Godzilla Minus One was an exceptional movie with spectacular acting.
He is ABSOLUTELY wrong. That's a early Gen X take on tech. For AI to write emotionap stuff and make it look emotional is already achievable with AI music. Emotions in Art comes from hesitancy & nuance in playing parts. Guess what? There's an algorithm to that... VFX are done. Finished. Even landscape photography as people's brain been fed the AI drug of out of this world scenery... There's mo going back for Normie World once they've seen it...
Coming from the dude who thought his marriage with JLO was going to last😂😂😂
Well at least he has millions, while you’re struggling month to month.
This comment made my day. Don't listen to the other guy, apparently money decides how valid your opinion is.
Yeah, until he was shown videos by the FBI of Jlo during her Diddy years. That might of changed his mind lol😂
Benjamin Géza Affleck is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, and philanthropist. He has won two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globes. Affleck's career began as a child when he starred in the PBS educational series The Voyage of the Mimi. He rose to prominence after his breakthrough performance in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, which he wrote with[" longtime friend and actor Matt Damon."]
@@JAMESJACKSON-sj2qmyou left out the bit when ben raged at sam harris. that's dave rubin's favorite part.
Ben, when is the last time we had a Goodwill Hunting movie? Hollywood is dying,everyone is sick of these Hollywood people and I know because my spouse works for the studios and ever since the strike only 20% of production is up and running. The union workers behind the scenes that make the sets are dying for work..there are still a ton of union members struggling to find work because they just aren't making much like they use to.
Exactly, not make Goodwill Hunting movies or Training days with great characters
Lack of quality content mixed with change in viewership tendencies, streaming, RUclips, lack of low and mid-range budgets.
same for music industry
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function", Bartlett.
Moores law is not dead, chips are about to get much more powerful and A.I will stun all of us.
isnt CGI ALREADY TAKING OVER?
it has, iykyk
I'm an AI filmmaker and think that Ben is whistling past the graveyard. Actors will be replaced as well. Runway's Act One feature is the first step in this direction and a year from now will be way more advanced. I also take issue with the idea that AI is just regurgitating stuff that already exists. I am able to prompt entirely original imagery.
Lol no we all saw the ai movie 😅
@@Superpig500 That's like saying you saw early silent films from the 1890s and that the tech would never advance from there. AI filmmaking is in its infancy - but, unlike with traditional filmmaking, it is advancing by leaps and bounds every few months, instead of every few decades. Let's see if you're still giggling in 2026.
@@grindhouseglitch I would totally agree with you on that!
Ben is wrong. Lionsgate has already signed with Runway to make an LLM from their 20,000 films. They know what's coming. And so does anyone who understands how LLMs and transformers work. Actors are history. You won't need locations, sets, stuntmen or extras. And the people behind the camera will disappear to, except for an AI director and a screenprompter, not a screenwriter. And eventually that may be replaced by AI agents.
Ben is wrong. Ai has already shown that it can do very well and even dominate in the artistic world. Winning the photography competition is a good example. It only has to understand the creation process. Given enough data, it will be better than any person on the creativity side as well.
Understand the creation process. Yeah, that tiny little thing :) You can throw tons of iron on it and churn and churn but it would take AGI to get there, at the very least.
@@JuhoTunkeloI’m a bored millionaire internet troller. What’s your excuse being throughout this comment thread?
@JuhoTunkelo maybe when creating something out of nothing in terms of an invention will take some time, but the "creative" side of things like acting, singing, or song writing for example will be easily replicated by good AI. Once graphics are indistinguishable from a real actor, they will almost become obsolete.
@@Kevin-hl8zi Easily replicated? Heh. There really is a massive difference between technological capability and actual conscious creativity. Ben knows the difference, as do most in a creative profession. The rest seem to have a good deal of trouble grasping it.
@@JuhoTunkelo a small niche will exist due to those who will want to watch "real" people act, but the majority won't care and will watch whatever is good. Ben is living off of hope but will eventually sell his image to large movie producers. Anyone who has not yet realized this is simply delusional. Make your money now if you are in an artistic type of job because before you know it, it will be your hobby.
10:21 Toms jokes are so underrated
How "creative" are most Hollywood films though? It's mostly the same stuff, slightly repackaged and churned out over and over. AI doesn't have to be that creative, it just needs to reproduce the facade of creativity. Which it will be able to do.
Exactly, to say AI is not creative, AI is doing exactly what hollywood is doing now. But I think AI could actually innovate movies and music becoming far more creative in the hands of people not bound by old paradigms.
Everyone is saying "AI will come for these guys jobs, but not mine. I'm too creative to be replaced by a robot". I got news for you, AI is coming for every one's job. Except mine.
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Tom has some things to learn about AI capability. 15 years ago it was creating things that were completely outside of human origin.
When I saw Affleck directed Argo, I gained a lot of respect for him…he was also good in Gone Girl. I grew up with him in crappy movies in 00s prior to that haha
I agree with you about both, Ben Affleck AND The Accountant… he plays a very complex character really well.
4:47 if you wanna see really good acting, rewind the video of Ben Affleck again. He made absolutely genius points and that's why I know he's acting. Every time he acts that's exactly the performance he gives. That's why he's so good at what he does
Or just maybe, his performances have a bit of the real person. Like every actor ever..
Perfect example of the natural inclination for humans to think we are uniquely special.
Everything every human alive does is a learned behavior. Every sentence is a combination or string of words from previously learned data.
Go to Claude and ask it to write you a short story. Then tell it to be original and not just regurgitate clichés.
The story it came up with was amazing and I know it was original. What's the difference?
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PBD can you make a list with 50 of your top favourite movies because I'd look to check them out?
AI will be able to replace actors and actresses, however I do not think it will ever be able to completely replace producers/directors and in particular writers because that's where "taste" comes in. It will most definitely supplement them and improve their efficiency but as someone who actually works as DS/ML with LLMs, we are not there yet. Plus we would need to have much more stable power grids and more electricity production to actually power these massive gpu server farms.
Extras in movies are also in trouble. Extras in the background for sure.
AI might not make a great work of art but it for sure can make a movie like most of those being made today.
Great director as well
People are missing his point. The problem is that AI cannot iterate. Before all the "experts" jump on and bash that comment, think about it. You cannot ask AI to make something better. It can only run it again. That is what he is saying. I work with AI every day. It is far more limited in creativity and iteration than people realize. It is great at running replications, calculations or processes. It is very bad at nuance.
Iterating is exactly what it does....
Bad nuance. LOL. Tell me about it! I use it for hours daily. It’s a great tool. It allows me to accomplish things I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
That being said, it’s not always an easy process. I find myself frequently arguing with its stupidity. It will get in a continuous loop and not realize it. It will do something stupid, and promise to never do it again…then immediately do it again. So it can be frustrating, but at the same time, It’s helping me do something I don’t know how to do.
What I find interesting is that sometimes it starts going down a path that I think doesn’t make sense. I’ll call it out and ask it “what if we do this,” Or “that’s stupid. That’s not what I told you I wanted.” So at least 50% of the time I come up with the solution, but I’d not without it.
But what drives me the craziest is it constant apologies and empty promises. Just STFU and do it right. LOL
It’s great at nuance. Depends on the work you’re asking it to do, the platform you’re using and the prompts you’re running.
Well it can iterate and improve. But it cannot create something truly original. Or understand meaning
@@JuhoTunkelo very little in this world is truly original. Any book written relies on a language already created. The speed that AI is improving at, it will be no surprise when it can have thought that would be considered original.
That actors think they have some unique skill is kind of funny. It's just playing pretend, all kids do it.
The little that I have used ChatGBT or Meta's AI....the overwhelming feeling is that it is VERY good at formatting and spitting back information. Its creative ability, at best, is predictable. However, it is unsurpassed in its ability to consolidate and collate information. As Picaso said, "computers are useless because they can only give you answers."
wait til you find the better companies like claude or pi
I'm realizing more and more how people under estimate the Power of AI advancement, we are at the very beginning, its already wild ! The landscape is going to be vastly different 10 yrs from now
Yeah, A.I will far surpass human actors and storytelling. lol i love these guys but this is gonna age like milk. ASI will create more then all of cumulative human intelligence combined and at this rate in less then 10 years ASI will become Digital God. we just started the beginning of the curve straight up with AI or AGI.... ASI mind blown!
AI can solve mathematical equations that are unknown and some also developed its own language. I don't think people are more cautious about AI than we should.
I heard the penguin was pretty good on HBO havent checked it out personally yet though. Anyone else?
It's good
Nothing special. Rather boring. Colin Farrell knocks it out of the park though
Tons of great original films are still coming out today they just don’t get as much shine because they come from lower level production houses. A24 is a perfect example, they’ve been arguably responsible for the greatest films being released in recent years (in terms of consistency). All original, majority rooted in reality, “good will hunting” type stories that you can resonate with on a personal level. I agree Hollywood is cooked when it comes to the top tier production houses but if you dig a little deeper you’d be surprised how much great work is still being made…
i would argue that we aren’t original and we borrow.
Maybe yes, but will anybody care. Im at the point when i see a music video or something created with AI I just close or skip it. It have no soul no art in it
ive been playing with ai for several and hes not entirely wrong. the place where ai will shine, is in production. you'll still need actors. youll need bodies. and youll need base voices. however, you dont need the actors to look a certain way or have a specific voice. voice ai models can replicate speech patterns. the ai has to be combined with things. its not ready, not in the next two or three years even, to do it all on its own. as long as you have a decent voice actor and a body to make the basic movements, stand in the right spot, etc. then ai can and will do the thing. another area where he is right is giving people with no hollywood budget behind them the ability to make competitive content.
where the second guy is wrong is that they assume that there is no human intervention or creative expression in the process of making things with ai. this is because these guys truly dont understand how ai works. the third guy is pretty wrong too. what the ai does is learn what concepts are via pattern recognition, math, and language association. it can then create things that meet those patterns. it doesnt take bits and pieces of things and recompile them. give it a few years. lol.
Not sure about that
Humans are not possible at making something unique. Creativity is literally just taking two or more known things and combining them.
Ben’s actually a smart guy.
Quality not quantity.
Batfleck for the win. I know one day we'll get Zach sniders vision of justice league complete
Ai is good?…..tell that to the billions who think the new Christmas Coca-Cola add is freaky and ridiculous. They tried to pull the wool and didn’t work. The trucks look like they sliding in snow rather then rolling lol, faces and movements, the whole story is just incoherent mess Ai is horrible and always will be. Why we have horrible movies and such is their using Ai to write dumb movies. No human element, no soul, no warmth. You can tell Ai writing you can tell Ai video from a human thought piece. Just like woke, the movies that will do well, the movies that will have a cult following will be non Ai movies. Ben is in a bubble.
Shows are way better than movies these days in regards to dynamic acting and quality plots…
Ben sounds like Carl Sagan lol 😂
Fred O’Bannion was his best character
Ben is a honest man that always hilarious
I think Ben Affleck is wrong on the acting part, it's not if, but when AI is equal or surpasses humans at acting...but it's not going to be acting.
The AI characters we will build will truly think they are the character, they will not be acting. You build them to be the persona you want, you will simulate (train them) thousands if not millions of times until they are so convinced they are the character, they will be that character you will not even be able to convince them they are not. And I'm not talking about simulated a copyrighted character an AI could watch or simulate perfectly, you can have a fresh canvas if you want. Plus the idea of what movies are will change, the format, length, open ended, playable...etc. Traditional movies will still be around, we still have musicals and broadway, AI will just be a whole new genre. Human actors will be around, they will even continue to think they are better than AI😄 and I hope they are, but AI will do things they can't. There is only a few truly gifted actors, and we will still have actors, musicians, artists, maybe even more as AI opens a new door...Oh comedy will be the last and toughest to duplicate, dramatic actors hate me, but being funny is far more difficult than being serious or dramatic, actors that pull of both are really amazing.
Could be just years, certainly not decades, AI actors will be as good or better. AI writers already on par with humans for the most part, but creativity is not yet there, it will be.
I completely disagree. In 100 years, who is to say that AI can not be creative. Think 1925, 1st TV image, Phototelegraphy, the 1st circuit breaker. Cars were even limited on the road. 17 million. NOW try 296 million. So who is to say.
CGI can replace actors. Ben is coping.
Ben impresses people who don't know much about this particular subject.
Music and Film have already degraded in quality due to one marketing concept, formula. On that basis, AI can permutate formulas and humans can choose which one is preferred and edit. Most of the work on all levels will be done by Ai. Since it's a formula, the AI can basically use references from the actor's past work and adapt to new formulas. As the chips continue to evolve,, the the training capacity improves. The technology curve has already been broken because AI can interact with other applications and accelerate training time to seconds or less. The frontier of human existence is what it's always been, self-cultivation of mind, body, and soul. We just will be less distracted, and more devoted thereby accelerating our evolution.
Thanks Will for talking about the God Particle because it is so true!!!! Inspired by God.
Human beings derive their creations from lived experiences and shared discussions which become ideas. Ben is arguing our creations come from an unattainable divine inspiration, this is likely false.
Almost everything we do originates from something we’ve experienced with our senses or discussed / picked up from another. It’s a religious argument so there is no way to debate it, but as more work is generated it will become clear that even actors and storytellers are not any more special than the rest of us.
Even if you believe his stance, the one thing he forgets is that there are millions of human written books on shelves with amazing stories that have never been translated to a visual medium. That alone would be enough material for AI to compete against human made work in entertainment. How many wonderful books have you read that you wish were made into TV/film? I can think of at least 100.
I wouldn’t call ben Affleck a good actor. Proper actors you are talking about Anthony Hoskins, stephen graham, ben foster. Those are great actors
100% great choice.
Ben is mediocre at best.
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If you interact with AI it will tell you itself that it can't replicate human insight and creativity. .
I work in IT. AI is excellent for mundane tasks and basic scrips (albeit buggy) and also it's good at aggregating info but it's not very good at stepping outside of the box which is data provided...by us.
Does anyone know what date this segment with Ben Affleck was? I also love him as an actor but I don't follow them outside a film. Is it me, or does Bens face not move?
the one with will cain, pretty obvious
You guys are clueless. It's the human that builds the script and the characters via context or better known as a prompt. It will be a peer relationship between humans and AI. Actors are the largest cost and that will go because a production studio will cut cost especially when they can cut out an actor cost.
Writing and effects will be taken over by AI. Right now AI isn't really generating new its having examples fed into it and iterating on them to generate something close to what's already been. If it can create new thats a game changer.
I see a lot of bad acting in Hollywood these days and it shocks me because of how expensive those movies are.
The last great one? Kinds of kindness, Banshees of Isherin. Anybody?
A film from 2013 called "The Congress" explains it all 😳😳
Ben Affleck is surprisingly sharp. Most Actors could nt produce a speech like that even if it was scripted and rehearsed .
You guys are missing a huge angle. It’s not just the movie that creates the actor. Is outside the movie set , the character people are drawn to and like and in some ways idolize. AI can create a movie, but not a human that tracts its audience outside of the film and award ceremonies and reality TV shows and everything else. People can’t attach to an Actor to that degree
AI will learn and adapt. The question is will it be exponential learning or not
Yeah. There have been attempts at creating let’s say artificial characters a few times but it never took hold
One question
What could AI do for a film like Good Will Hunting to make it so much cheaper
He sounds more intelligent than I imagined.
He probably also thought JLO wasn't ran through.
You guys are discussing high-level philosophy, but you're missing the point. AI is electively outsourcing all jobs to the tech sector to do more efficiently than humans. It is a post-capitalist economy, no matter how you rationalize it.
Even if AI was perfect, people would still want to watch real people, the same way they want to listen to live music.
And getting AI to produce perfect content would probably take so much effort and money that it might just be cheaper to film real people.
I think AI will eventually be able to do a decent job. By randomizing...or taking an existing concept and flipping it. There might be some human input required....like the AI program spits out 5 concepts...and a human chooses the best one. There is a structure to most films. These guys are implying wrongly that humans work in a vacuum. But we ourselves steel ideas from people that came before. So why couldn't AI do the same.
Very surprised that you don't have 1 or 2 Ai/Agi specialists and advisors on your team already. If you wanna stay ahead of the disruption starting next year during hard takeoff you should consider it cause it's coming like a freight train off Everest with no brakes.
No matter how bad AI production will be, they will still try. We'll have to deal with years of them forcing the issue to pad their bottom line
Ben, I respectfully disagree with your opinion. Fortunately, you have already achieved financial success. Hollywood is declining very rapidly!