LOS ANGELES (KNX) – Artificial intelligence is slowly but surely weaving its way into the arts, but actor, screenwriter, producer, and director Justine Bateman said in KNX News’ town hall, “Reality in an A.I. World,” that AI is not needed.
“We have plenty of writers, we have plenty of actors,” she said. “In fact, we have so many writers and so many actors and so many directors and so many producers that there’s just not enough work for them all. It’s hard to get projects made. People work for years to get certain projects made. So that’s not a problem AI needed to come in and solve. AI in the arts solves two problems – lack of skill and talent and profit margins that aren’t quite wide enough. It’s powered in the arts by greed.”
Bateman, who also graduated from UCLA with a degree in computer science, argued that AI replaces writers with their own work.
“You can feed this algorithm in all the scripts you can find and then ask it to write a script about a romcom about pandas or whatever you want and it’ll spit it out,” she said. “They're taking all their work. It's like you have a bunch of cars, you're gonna take all those cars, seal them, put them in a chop shop, cut them up into little pieces and make a quote new car. It's not a new car. And then what's gonna happen for the society? You're never going to get anything new, haven't you noticed in the last 20 years? Like, there's been very few new music genres, new film genres.”
James Kaplan, CEO of Meet Kai, said it’s “wishful thinking” that AI won’t get to a point to where it is creative, but it’s not there yet.
“Where we are right now, I would say, is on the precipice between augmentation and replacement, where it’s not quite at a stage of replace, but it’s eerily close to it,” he said.
Sabaa Quidwai, founder of the education-technology consulting firm Designing Schools, argued that AI would still need a human touch in order to be creative.
“These serendipitous moments and interactions that we have with our world are these human spark that a lot of times will allow AI to produce what it does,” she said. “It doesn't produce what it does automatically on its own. It does need that human touch.”
You can watch the full version of “Reality in an A.I. World” here.
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