ForJames Cameron, saving the movie business might come down to using AI.
In the old days, I would have founded a company to figure it out.
Ive learned maybe thats not the best way to do it.
The goal was to understand the space, to understand whats on the minds of the developers.
What are they targeting?
Whats their development cycle?
Now thats not about laying off half the staff and at the effects company.
Thats my sort of vision for that.
Where he does feel AI is a threat is in replacing storytelling as an art form.
You have to be human to write that.
I dont know anyone thats even thinking about having AI write a screenplay.
That aspect of the technology makes Cameron a little bit queasy.
Filmmakers, he said, should be influenced directly in theirvision, not theirhardware.
I aspire to be in the style of Ridley Scott, in the style of Stanley Kubrick.
Thats my text prompt that runs in my head as a filmmaker.
Yeah, I want to do that.
I know my influences.
Everybody knows their influences.
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