Growing fears about artificial intelligence
In May 2023, Geoffrey Hinton, considered one of the founding fathers of this technology, left his job at Google to “be able to talk about the dangers of AI”, as he explained on Twitter (via Point). Nearby New York Timesthe Canadian researcher assured it Extremely rapid advances in AI pose ‘profound risks to society and humanity’adding that it’s “hard to see how to keep bad actors from using it for bad stuff”.
A few weeks earlier, in March 2023, billionaire Elon Musk and hundreds of experts asked via an open letter the disruption of artificial intelligence research, also warning of “dangers to humanity”. The signatories stated in particular (via The world):
Recent months have seen AI labs locked in a wild race to develop and deploy increasingly powerful digital brains, which no one, not even their creators, can reliably understand, predict or control.
James Cameron “shares the concern” of the experts
While passing through Ottawa for an exhibition organized by Canadian Geographic for his work on the seabed, James Cameron took advantage of an interview with CTV News this Tuesday July 18, 2023 to discuss another important theme of his cinema. During this interview, the director ofAvatars in turn he trusted in the dazzling advances of artificial intelligence.
The director said he “totally shares the concern” of the experts. The director added, referring to his classic terminatorin which the machines controlled by Skynet want to eradicate the human species:
I warned you in 1984 and you didn’t listen to me.
James Cameron also shared his concerns about the military’s use of artificial intelligencewhich according to him represents “the greatest danger”:
I think we’re going to enter the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with artificial intelligence. (…) You can imagine an AI in a fighting arena, fighting against other computers at such speed that humans could do nothing and no longer be able to defuse the situation.
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A danger to cinema?
Whilea massive strike of writers and actors is currently rocking Hollywood, one of the demands of professionals is the supervision of the uses of artificial intelligence. For James Cameron, authors are unlikely to be replaced by machines any time soon, as machines are unable to develop stories with heart, soul and true singularity, at least for the time being:
Personally, I don’t believe in a disembodied spirit who regurgitates what other embodied spirits have said – about their life, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality – and mix it all up into a word salad… I don’t think that can move the audience. (…) Let’s wait 20 years, and if an artificial intelligence wins the Oscar for best screenplay, I think we’ll have to take it seriously.
Source: Cine Serie
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