TV show made entirely by AI is three to five years away, predicts ‘Slow Horses’ director

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Apple TV’s Slow Horses.As per Deadline, director James Hawes revealed that he’d spoken with legal teams at SAG-AFTRA and the WGA and took part in a poll with fellow directors and VFX workers where they explored the likelihood of a fully AI series, he revealed today.He explained: “The best guess was three to five years.

Someone will say, ‘Create a scene in an ER room where a doctor comes in and he’s having an affair with a woman and they’re flirting, and someone is dying on the table,’ and [AI] will start to create it.

Maybe it won’t be as polished as we are used to but that is how close we are getting.”He continued: “My worry is that if we don’t get up to speed with this then the AI-generated stories will come from elsewhere,” he added. “We need to take note and act on it now.

Silicon Valley is way ahead.”He’s not the only director to express concerns about AI. Last year, Tim Burton described seeing recreations of his work by artificial intelligence as “disturbing”.The director, who is known for his macabre visual style across films like Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, recalled how he felt when seeing this style replicated by AI.“They had AI do my versions of Disney characters,” he told Independent, in reference to a Buzzfeed article from July this year. “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you.