I just heard about this.  This video is a good discussion of the issue.

I remember having a discussion about this with a co-worker in the Pentagon in 1976.  Eventually we'd have whole movies with actors who were no longer alive and you wouldn't be able to tell it wasn't real.  It looks like we're almost there.

At one point in that video they talk about making a new episode of the Andy Griffith show with AI, but who would watch?  No one I know, but if they made new episodes of the original Star Trek it would get lots of views.  If they made a few more seasons of Firefly, I'd watch them... probably.

We live in interesting times.

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There's an old episode of Tales From the Darkside or another show like it from the 80s where a famous news anchor gets lured to an underground apartment.  Once there, he's told he can never leave and then shown that he's been replaced with what we would call AI.

Apart from being imprisoned in an underground apartment, this is coming to the news and entertainment industry all too soon.

Millions of jobs will be replaced by AI and robots over the next 20 years, and those replaced will have 3 options:

1. Find another job if you can, which will be difficult without specific skills that AI and robots can't replace (yet)

2. Live in a cardboard box in an alley

3. Surrender your freedoms and live in a technocratic 15-minute city in a 500 sq ft apartment, have your every move and communication monitored, and have your resource consumption monitored and strictly controlled/limited

Is the future really bright?  I don't know.

This is why Mister Randazzo wants only real names on his forum. No suspicious names, but only common, run of the mill, believable names. He wants to keep it real.

16 hours ago, Fielder said:

No suspicious names

I suggest Douglas Fir and Georgia Pine.

No one likes what has come to be known as "AI Slop", but as long as real people write good scripts I don't care if the actors and scenery are AI generated. It's not much different from CGI.  You don't have to use big name actors either.  A lot of really good movies I've seen feature actors in their first role.

Hollywood has produced some really bad stuff lately anyway.  I prefer independent productions.  And foreign productions;  Russia, for example, produces some surprisingly good movies.  Australia ain't too shabby either.  Many others.

In the 1950s we were warned, "You could be replaced by a button."  I never was.  Some jobs were, and we're all probably better for it.  I wouldn't want to be a telegraph operator, for example.  Every job that was replaced by a button required button pressers and maintenance personnel.  Automated factory assembly line jobs were probably improved.  

Many people will push back against AI, and there will be a market for companies that feature actual people in public facing positions.

I'm not worried.

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9 minutes ago, LHookins said:

Hollywood has produced some really bad stuff lately anyway.  I prefer independent productions.  And foreign productions

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8 hours ago, LHookins said:

I prefer independent productions.  And foreign productions

I first got cable TV in the mid 1980s.  In addition to the basic package I ordered Bravo, which would show lots of foreign and independent movies. My favorite one that I saw was a Japanese dark comedy called “The Crazy Family” from 1984, absolutely hilarious.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087377/
 

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So hard to tell the difference, now.

The younger generation that weren't around when Bruce was, and know little about him, are easily fooled.