Matthew Modine Joins ‘I Hope This Helps!’ As EP; Doc Uses Satire, Whimsy And Furry Blue Creature To Explore Dangers, Promise Of AI
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Actor-producer Matthew Modine and Adam Rackoff’s Cinco Dedos Peliculas production company have signed on as executive producers of I Hope This Helps!, a documentary that explores the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.
Writer-director Daniel Freed enlisted Google’s AI chatbot Bard to help create the documentary, described as a “humorous, genre-bending hybrid film” that invites viewers to ponder “the evolving relationship between humanity and technology.” Responding to prompts from the filmmaker, Google’s Bard fashioned a furry blue creature with big eyes to (one imagines) lessen the menacing specter of AI. “Artificial intelligence is the most important, life-altering technological advancement in modern human history.
Full stop,” Modine said in a statement. As a SAG-AFTRA board member, Modine was deeply engaged in the contentious contract talks last year between the actors’ union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a dispute that was only resolved after a nearly four-month-long strike.
AI became one of the main sticking points in those negotiations, with actors insisting on protections for how the technology would be used in film and television production. “Science fiction literature, television shows, and movies have repeatedly presented stories that depict the multitude of potential dangers of artificial intelligence for all of us.
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