AI Takes Hollywood?
In the future, will Artificial Intelligence replace Hollywood screenwriters? The answer, in the near term, is no. Apparently, AI writes a lot of nonsense. It’s funny nonsense but nonsense all the same, especially when it comes to dialogue.
Take the short film Sunspring. The script was written by a computer and stars HBO’s Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch. With dialogue like: “I have to go to the skull” and “I’m a little bit of a boy on the floor”, screenwriters won’t have to fret that HAL will be making them obsolete, but don’t anyone start to get complacent.
AI has already made some small gains in helping to write scripts for commercials. Burger King and Olive Garden have already dived into this binary writers’ pool. Even if writers aren’t in jeopardy, that hasn’t stopped AI from snatching up some of the market share of jobs in Hollywood. With the extensive use of CGI, Artificial Intelligence is poised to start taking jobs away from actors. How would you like to your Shakespeare monologue delivered by a Hewlett Packard? Slings and arrows, indeed.
Take the short film Sunspring. The script was written by a computer and stars HBO’s Silicon Valley’s Thomas Middleditch. With dialogue like: “I have to go to the skull” and “I’m a little bit of a boy on the floor”, screenwriters won’t have to fret that HAL will be making them obsolete, but don’t anyone start to get complacent.
AI has already made some small gains in helping to write scripts for commercials. Burger King and Olive Garden have already dived into this binary writers’ pool. Even if writers aren’t in jeopardy, that hasn’t stopped AI from snatching up some of the market share of jobs in Hollywood. With the extensive use of CGI, Artificial Intelligence is poised to start taking jobs away from actors. How would you like to your Shakespeare monologue delivered by a Hewlett Packard? Slings and arrows, indeed.
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