The use of artificial intelligence in creative realms is something of a hot-button issue, and the debate surrounding the ethics of employing it as a tool in any form is one that’s set to last for quite some time at this rate.
One AI-adjacent debate that doesn’t exist, however, is whether or not the technology in its current state poses any genuine threat to the creative human mind. It’s perhaps true that AI writing could be passable for soulless studio projects that never had creativity behind them in the first place, but as far as squaring up against someone like Christopher Nolan, for example, you’d be laughed out of the room for even suggesting the contest.
Needless to say, the Oppenheimer mastermind doesn’t feel particularly threatened or inspired by artificial intelligence; in a recent interview with Hugo Décrypte, the illustrious filmmaker bore witness to a pitch written by an AI – one that was apparently “inspired” by his own filmography – and it didn’t take long for him to arrive at the phrase “total nonsense.”
He would later note that while he believes AI will go on to become a powerful tool in a filmmaker’s ever-growing toolkit, human creativity will remain the perennial, unshakable force behind the art.
“What I find encouraging about the use of AI in the artistic realm is I think they’re going to be powerful tools, but ultimately, there’s no replacing human creativity.”
Indeed, it doesn’t sound like Nexus will be entering development any time soon (the strikes would halt it anyway), but it will be infinitely curious to see exactly how AI emerges as an ethical creative tool as the years go on. Of course, that’s assuming we’re headed for a future that treats AI as the tool that it is, rather than the mythological being that Nolan fears it could potentially be deemed.