Ben Affleck explained how he believes artificial intelligence will impact Hollywood, saying that movies will be “one of the last things” replaced by AI.
Ben Affleck is getting a lot of attention for his views on artifical intelligence.
Last week, the actor spoke at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha 2024 investor summit, taking time to share his thoughts on how AI will affect the entertainment industry.
“Movies will be one of the last things, if everything gets replaced, to be replaced by AI”, he explained.
“AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan, it cannot write you Shakespeare”, Affleck went on. “The function of having two actors, or three or four actors in a room and the taste to discern and construct, that is something that currently entirely eludes AI’s capability and I think will for a meaningful period of time.”
He continued, “What AI is going to do is going to disintermediate the laborious, less creative and more costly aspects of filmmaking that will allow costs to be brought down, that will lower the barrier for entry, that will allow more voices to be heard, that will make it easier for the people that want to make ‘Good Will Huntings’ to go out and make it.”
The A-list actor, who has gone on to build his own production company, Artists Equity, with longtime friend and fellow star Matt Damon, said AI is “a craftsman at best”, a tool that can observe other people building certain things and then learn to imitate.
