005 - Analogue & AI
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005 — Analogue & AI The Odyssey, a film by Christopher Nolan, just came out, and it’s incredible. It is also making historic sales numbers. And it just makes me think about the human interpretation of art—our rush into artificial intelligence, our increased dependency on it, and my own increased dependency on it. But here you have a filmmaker who has, in no uncertain terms, expressed his extreme preference for analogue systems: IMAX cameras, real film, real sets instead of green screens. And he is probably the most commercially successful director, while also perhaps being the most critically successful, at this moment in time—when you combine the two. And so, I just feel like, as we keep going further and further into this artificial intelligence thing, there will be a rejection of it. A rejection and an acceptance of it. A rejection of how far it can go, and an acceptance of what it can do. Right now, all over the world, I think most users use it as a plaything, or use it on a very, very surface-level lane. I really wonder how that will evolve. I use it as a thinking tool. I’m sure many people do as well. Some just use it as a better Google. But again, I go back to the Christopher Nolan thing. The guy doesn’t have a smartphone. It’s just crazy to me—the duality of everything. Where do we go now?