I was listening to a podcast today on my commute, as I do. They were talking about a new movie that is being considered for an award and it’s completely AI generated. To give the hosts credit they broke down the impact on a series of jobs that will be impacted, and also examples of telephone patch system operators whose jobs were replaced by technology, and how those individuals shifted their roles and work.
My point before I go down defending the, is to the doomsayers that start picking up pitch forks and end of the world doom Sayers. AI isn’t the problem here, and maybe one day it will be to blame for massive job loss. But this movie doesn’t signal that. It signals that someone took the time to try the impossible, prove the concept. With all these generative tools and the improving of skills and agent docs, someone has to try to make a movie completely with AI. Just like someone has to submit a photograph completely generated by AI because the point has to be proven, the test of the length of the capabilities.
They talked about this too, but there are still humans there. Thinking of the concept, curating the prompts, reviewing the results and making changes, prompting again, etc. what was replaced was execution, but that is naturally going to happen with technology. What changes is the tool to realize the thought, the execution.
My thought is that we need to lean in, do these sorts of experiments playing with the technology seeing what it can do. There will be the projects that get out there, but we’ll, as a society, will figure out the path, level-up.
The only power we have in our lives is to try and lean into the exploratory, get there early and have an opinion and show the work before the choice is made for you.