“James Cameron, who dreamt up the evil Skynet artificial intelligence network in his 1984 film The Terminator, says an advanced AI system could one day do his job.
“If you have an artificial general intelligence [system] that has an ego, that has consciousness, who’s to say that is not an artist?” the director who also made Titanic and the Avatar series told the Financial Times. “We’ve been doing art since we had consciousness, so why can’t an AGI do it at that point — write a script, direct a movie, do whatever?”
His comments come amid sharp divisions over AI in Hollywood, where unions are seeking to protect jobs from the disruptive technology while studio chiefs dream of ways it could save time and money.
The hand-wringing began in February when Open AI released a series of high-quality short videos made by its Sora text-to-video technology, stunning talent agents and filmmakers with its speed and slick images.“