![]() ![]() If you believe the blue-sky scenarios being proposed by boosters of the coming robot revolution - and there are scores of them, launching startups all over Hollywood, with tech giants like Microsoft and Meta throwing them tens of billions of research and development dollars - AI will be a harmless helpmate that will allow you to do your job better than ever. Not to sound alarmist, but if you’re a writer, an editor, a film composer, a marketer, a casting agent, a storyboard artist, even an actor, or just about anybody else who earns a living by making and selling movies and TV shows in this town, there’s a super-intelligent app being built right now that may soon be gunning for your job. ![]() Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (TriStar Pictures) Particularly that portion of it that does business in Hollywood. And while the government presumably hasn’t handed over control of our atomic arsenal to any of these programs, they do seem poised to wreak havoc on the human species. This version of artificial intelligence goes by many names, like ChatGPT (a text generator that’s as articulate, creative and sometimes as inappropriate as a lot of carbon-based writers) and Dall-E (software that can whip up virtually any sort of artwork imaginable faster than you can say Salva-Dor). Today, in March of 2023, a different sort of Skynet appears to be swirling into consciousness. And yet, as it turns out, Cameron may have actually been onto something, even if his timing was off by about 26 years. ![]()
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