After joining the stability of the AI board of directors, James Cameron has some ideas on the rationalization of the cinema process.
The winner of the 3X Oscars recently explained why he had pivoted his anti-ai position to join the visual media last September, and what should happen if the public “we want to continue to see” large blockbusters.
“The objective was to understand space, to understand what is in the minds of developers,” he explained on the Boz in the future podcast. “What are they targeting?” What is their development cycle? How many resources you have to throw there to create a new model that makes something specially designed, and my goal was to try to integrate it into a VFX workflow.
“And it’s not just hypothetical. If we want to continue to see the kind of films that I have always loved and that I like to do and that I will see – Dune,, Dune: second partOr one of my films or great heavy and heavy films – we must understand how to reduce the cost of this in two. »»
Cameron continued: “Now, it is not a question of dismissing half of the staff and the effects company. It is a question of doubling their speed of completion on a given shot, so your cadence is faster and your flow cycle is faster, and the artists can move forward and do other cool things, then other nice things, right? This is my kind of vision for that. ”
Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña in “Avatar” of 2009
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The CEO of AI stability, Prem Akkaraju, announced in September that Cameron would join the board of directors, helping the company work on its mission “to transform the visual media for the next century by giving the creators a full -pile pipeline to give life to its ideas”.
Cameron previously referred to his 1984 film The terminator As he denounced the use of AI in 2023. “I warned the guys in 1984, and you did not listen to,” he told CTV News, stressing that “the armament of AI is the greatest danger”, but he does not believe that he has the capacity to write a quality film.
“I do not personally believe that a disembodied spirit that regurgled what other embodied spirits said – about the life they have had, love, lie, fear, mortality – and put everything together in a word salad and then regurgitate it … I don’t think it has something that will move an audience,” he said.
Cameron added: “Let’s wait 20 years, and if an AI wins an Oscar for the best scenario, I think we have to take them seriously.”
