📹 Would Tarkovsky ask his camera, where do human start? ⚙️ Holywood Technology has an answer now. And it is different than Asimov’s. 🗣️ Fascinating article on thinking our emotions, their expression and how we interact with these as cultural consumers and viewers.
2035: Human actors are obsolete. Long live the Digital Thespian. Or not… It’s 2035 and as the AI Digital Thespian usurps the throne of traditional acting, the Hollywood star system finds itself teetering on the brink of obsolescence. About bloody time. There's an uncanny disturbance in the valley in La La Land. The news feeds have given over their primary slots to the grizzled and wrinkled faces of the old A listers, the last remnants of the age of 2d cinema. It's 2035, and we have succumbed to the calculated charm of a new lead actor. The Digital Thespian, a synthetic confluence of algorithms and ones and zeros, a paradigm of programming prowess, is reshaping the ethos of acting. This entity, designed to emulate and amplify human expression with disturbing precision, is blurring the distinction between the authentic and the artificial. What are we looking at here? The death of the human actor or the birth of the digital superstar? As Hollywood writers and actors strike over pay and the increasing role / threat of AI, we sent our digital human Fin to 2035 to report on AI, digital actors and the future of cinema. This is what she found…
