James Cameron doubts AI can write ‘a good story’ and says ‘weaponization of AI is the biggest danger’ to society: ‘I warned you in 1984!’
Three-time Oscar winner James Cameron has cast doubt on artificial intelligence’s ability to write ‘a good story’ or film script.
While reflecting on AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, helping people write emails, resumes, and, even, works of fiction, the 68-year-old filmmaker, best known for writing and directing Titanic in 1997, said he doesn’t ‘know anyone that’s even thinking about having AI write a screenplay.’
‘I just don’t personally believe that a disembodied mind that’s just regurgitating what other embodied minds have said — about the life that they’ve had, about love, about lying, about fear, about mortality — and just put it all together into a word salad and then regurgitate it…[is] ever going to have something that’s going to move an audience,’ he told CTV News.
The father-of-four continued: ‘You have to be human to write that.’
‘Let’s wait 20 years, and if an AI wins an Oscar for best screenplay, I think we’ve got to take them seriously,’ the Ontario native quipped.
Speaking up: Three-time Oscar winner James Cameron has cast doubt on artificial intelligence’s ability to write ‘a good story’ or film script; seen in 2022
After stating he was not concerned about AI taking over his job, Cameron expressed concern that the it will lead to a nuclear holocaust.
‘I think the weaponization of AI is the biggest danger,’ he told viewers. ‘I think that we will get into the equivalent of a nuclear arms race with AI, and if we don’t build it, the other guys are for sure going to build it, and so then it’ll escalate.’
‘You could imagine an AI in a combat theatre, the whole thing just being fought by the computers at a speed humans can no longer intercede, and you have no ability to deescalate,’ he continued.
Referencing his film, The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the screenwriter said: ‘I warned you guys in 1984… and you didn’t listen.’
The Terminator followed a human soldier, sent from 2029, to ‘1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity’s future salvation,’ according to IMBD.
In a similar sentiment about AI, Schwarzenegger warned the public that The Terminator has ‘become a reality.’
‘Today, everyone is frightened of it, of where this is gonna go,’ the actor, 75, said. ‘And in this movie, in Terminator, we talk about the machines becoming self-aware and they take over. Now, over the course of decades, it has become a reality.’
‘Now over the course of decades, it has become a reality. So it’s not any more fantasy or kind of futuristic. It is here today. And so this is the extraordinary writing of Jim Cameron,’ he added.
Ahead of its time: Referencing his film, The Terminator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (seen above in character), the screenwriter said: ‘I warned you guys in 1984… and you didn’t listen’
No longer just fiction? In a similar sentiment about AI, Schwarzenegger warned the public that The Terminator has ‘become a reality’
The former Governor of California went on to call Cameron ‘such an extraordinary writer’ and ‘unbelievable director.’
‘I can only take credit of the character that I played and the way I played it. But I mean, he has created this character. He has written it so well, he’s written the movie so well, and that’s why he is, you know, the number one director in the world,’ he concluded.
Earlier this month, SAG union president Fran Drescher revealed that she actors fear they will be replaced by robots.
During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she stated that new technology is one of the key reasons behind the strike, because ‘the digital age is cannibalizing’ her industry.
Drescher was likely referring to powerful technology that can ‘de-age’ actors – with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny recently using the software to make its star Harrison Ford look 40 years younger. It has been feared the same tech could be used to replace human actors completely.
Drescher’s comments came as her union, which represents around 160,00 entertainers including some of the most famous A-listers in the world, announced its historic strike in a row over wages and artificial intelligence.
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