Christopher Nolan Is Optimistic About Potential Benefits of AI in Filmmaking: ‘Enormously Powerful Tools’
Wired, including the question of whether he’d be championing artificial intelligence in filmmaking.He reiterated that he was the “old analog fusty filmmaker” sort of creative, but highlighted that even if he’s not the one to employ AI to its logical extremes, the tech is ripe for filmmaking usage.“The whole machine learning as applied to deepfake technology, that’s an extraordinary step forward in visual effects and in what you could do with audio,” he said. “There will be wonderful things that will come out, longer term, in terms of environments, in terms of building a doorway or a window, in terms of pooling the massive data of what things look like, and how light reacts to materials.