Director Bong Joon-ho attends the opening ceremony of the twenty second Marrakech Movie Competition in Marrakech, Morocco, Friday. AP-Yonhap
Director Bong Joon-ho shared sturdy views on synthetic intelligence (AI) on the Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition in Morocco, joking that he would kind a military to destroy AI, whereas additionally crediting the know-how for making individuals severely take into consideration what solely people can do.
Serving because the jury president for the twenty second version of the movie pageant, the Korean director responded to a query in regards to the rise of AI throughout a press convention on Saturday (native time). He expressed combined emotions in regards to the know-how because the movie manufacturing group has more and more felt the impression of AI.
“My official reply is, AI is nice as a result of it’s the very starting of the human race lastly severely excited about what solely people can do. However my private reply is, I’m going to prepare a army squad, and their mission is to destroy AI,” he mentioned.
Other than this humorous reply, Bong has typically spoken about how a lot AI has affected filmmakers and his personal artistic course of.
At a worldwide convention in Seoul final September, Bong mentioned that the know-how has been a fantastic shock to the movie business.
“Filmmakers continuously speak about AI once they eat, drink espresso and even once they go dwelling,” he mentioned. “As a result of AI has shaken all the pieces we imagine in and are fascinated by concerning video, we really feel each concern and pleasure.”
Director Bong Joon-ho, heart, jury president of the twenty second Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition, speaks throughout a press convention in Marrakech, Morocco, Saturday (native time), whereas jury members Celine Tune, left, and Jenna Ortega additionally attend. EPA-Yonhap
The director then identified his personal use of the know-how within the current launch, “Mickey 17.”
“There’s a scene within the movie ‘Mickey 17’ the place two Mickeys, which means two Robert Pattinsons, seem on a single display. Satirically, we acquired the assistance of AI for the visible results of that scene. It’s a case the place AI was used for visuals,” Bong mentioned.
“The truth is that we use AI know-how as a instrument, even in a film that offers with how humanity is threatened by technological development, whereas the distinctive heat and imperfection of people stay.”
Bong is main an eight-member jury of the pageant, which runs by way of Dec. 6. Among the many jury members, “Previous Lives” director Celine Tune and “Wednesday” actor Jenna Ortega additionally expressed issues about what AI know-how would finally do to artwork.
They shared Bong’s issues and emphasised that artistic work is a human course of that can’t be diminished to algorithms. They added AI could take over the human expertise, however individuals will ultimately get uninterested in AI content material, main audiences to worth human-made content material.
