They saw it as inevitable. Oppenheimer and his atom bomb changed the world. They didn’t stop development, like I said – inevitable. If they had stopped, then someone else like the Soviets would carry on.
It’s the same with AI and all powerful technology. If ChatGPT would be removed from service tomorrow, a lot of people would be very unhappy. It’s the same with the automobile. If someone banned all cars tomorrow, everywhere, a lot of people would be very unhappy, and civilisation would collapse.
Technology makes us happy, it makes us powerful and it makes us rich. AI has the ability to supercharge creativity in the film industry, but I don’t see it as replacing human beings or important jobs.
How I see AI in filmmaking
I think AI is both a huge opportunity and incredible danger for the world, but that’s the same with all the greatest technologies. This has become normal.
It’s how we use it that matters.
AI is a tool. A tool for making movies, scripts, photography, moving images.
And that’s what we’re here to discuss and inform on at Fullframe.ai, with a particular focus on filmmaking and the creative arts.
AI has the potential to be much more transformative than the DSLR revolution which I covered on EOSHD for many years. The accessibility of cameras is one thing, but they can’t make an entire movie happen.
AI could.
Generative AI is a very exciting tool and it will one day be capable of taking what’s in your imagination and portraying it in photo-realistic detail on screen, like a dream, with nothing but a few hardware and software interfaces between you and the audience.
It can enable a new dawn of the AI film auteur, one director with the highest level of control and autonomy, assisted by a small team, making a movie whose production quality cannot be told apart from a traditional movie shot in reality.
Our AI movie is rendered in total 8K photo-realism and you have control over every detail.
The same talent that goes into real filmmaking – judgement, taste, experience and the cinematic eye – will get to work in the world of AI and separate the best from the mere eye-candy.
We will soon think of filmmaking as a much broader field, not always with a high budget, real location and roll call of acting talent waiting for the camera crew to set up a shot. After all, big money and exotic locations will still be yours to enjoy after you make one of the first successful AI movies.
Rather than an expensive set, with producers standing over your shoulder, the AI movie exists as a mathematical concept, like a vector of human imagination…
Projected onto the cinema screen for all to enjoy.
It still means we need to have something original to say, and the vision. It still means we need to have a talent for filmmaking. It means the process and ease of it will change dramatically, at least in this growing niche of AI filmmaking.
I hope you can enjoy the journey with me and learn with me. It’s a very fast pace of technology to say the least, which calls for minimalism and a focus on what’s important. At Fullframe.ai I’ll take a sound judgement on what information is worthwhile and useful, and what’s just clickbait.
These guiding principals were the same for EOSHD and I am carrying them forward into the world of Fullframe.ai
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