Renowned filmmaker James Cameron emphatically declared his rejection of using artificial intelligence to craft a movie script in an interview with CTV News.
The Canadian director believes that AI bots lack the capability to compose "a good story."
"I just don't personally believe that a disembodied mind that's just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said — about the life that they've had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality — and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it…I don't believe that's ever going to have something that's going to move an audience," said Cameron. "You have to be human to write that. I don't know anyone that's even thinking about having AI write a screenplay."
Cameron did, however, voice his concern over the danger of AI being used as a weapon, and the scenario of world powers entering "into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI."
"If we don't build it, the other guys are for sure going to build it, and so then it'll escalate. You could imagine an AI in a combat theatre, the whole thing just being fought by the computers at a speed humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to de-escalate," he said.
"I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn't listen," he added, referencing his (remarkably prescient) 1984 action film The Terminator, in which an AI defence network becomes self-aware and enslaves humanity in a scenario that Cameron feels is actually more plausible than AI being used to write movie scripts.
On Tuesday (July 18), Cameron launched a Canadian Geographic exhibit in Ottawa chronicling his endeavours in deep-sea exploration.
The Canadian director believes that AI bots lack the capability to compose "a good story."
"I just don't personally believe that a disembodied mind that's just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said — about the life that they've had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality — and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it…I don't believe that's ever going to have something that's going to move an audience," said Cameron. "You have to be human to write that. I don't know anyone that's even thinking about having AI write a screenplay."
Cameron did, however, voice his concern over the danger of AI being used as a weapon, and the scenario of world powers entering "into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI."
"If we don't build it, the other guys are for sure going to build it, and so then it'll escalate. You could imagine an AI in a combat theatre, the whole thing just being fought by the computers at a speed humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to de-escalate," he said.
"I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn't listen," he added, referencing his (remarkably prescient) 1984 action film The Terminator, in which an AI defence network becomes self-aware and enslaves humanity in a scenario that Cameron feels is actually more plausible than AI being used to write movie scripts.
On Tuesday (July 18), Cameron launched a Canadian Geographic exhibit in Ottawa chronicling his endeavours in deep-sea exploration.
