“It’s Not Going Anywhere”: AI Experts Discuss The Technology And Its Future Impact On Storytelling — KVIFF Industry Panel
06.07.2023 - 17:15
/ deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: The direct effect Artificial Intelligence may have on our lives and the future of storytelling was the topic discussed during the central keynote on the final day of the Eastern Promises industry program at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
“We have a new player in town, and it’s not going anywhere,” veteran creative consultant Tatjana Samopjan said, summarizing the position of AI in our lives.
In the panel hosted by Deadline as part of the Industry Days program, Samopjan was joined by Gerhard Maier, program director and co-founder of Seriencamp, and Julia Schafdecker, attorney at SKW Schwarz.
Introducing the lengthy session, Maier identified the two main forms of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and narrow AI, as well as their structural differences.
“Artificial General Intelligence is what people like Elon Musk and the heads of Google are talking about right now. This is about trying to create a machine that thinks like a human,” Maier said.
“It is the big holy grail of artificial intelligence research. Depending on who you talk to, it’s either a couple of months away or decades. People don’t know. And the thing we have most likely interacted with for the last few years — and ChatGPT and Midjourney are just two instances of how it is used — is narrow AI. This is mostly algorithms that are trained to do a certain task.”
The most important thing to remember when discussing AI, Maier later concluded, is that the technology is growing “exponentially,” meaning its level of sophistication is increasing rapidly. This untapped growth will, of course, have a direct impact on industry as well as our personal lives. For one, Maier added, there will be what he