Ben Affleck thinks movies will be "one of the last things" to be replaced by AI.
The 52-year-old actor believes AI technology can replicate the "more laborious, less creative" aspects of filmmaking, but he insists he isn't worried about AI taking over Hollywood. Affleck said AI is great at "imitating" but that it doesn't have the power to produce creative, original ideas.
Speaking at CNBC's Delivering Alpha 2024 investor summit, Affleck explained: "AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan. It cannot write you Shakespeare. 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 alludes AI's capability and I think will for a meaningful period of time. What AI is going to do is dis-intermediate the more laborious, less creative and more costly aspects of filmmaking that will allow costs to be brought down, that will lower the barrier to entry, that will allow more voices to be heard, that will make it easier for the people who want to make 'Good Will Huntings' to go out and make it."
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