The film doesn’t suggest that it was the AI that caused the destruction of the planet. So I wanted to talk about the idea of AI just trying to help and maybe getting it catastrophically wrong. If anything, any evolving AI is going to be so heavily dependent on humans. That seems such a 1970s disaster movie sci-fi version of the future to me. I just wanted to talk about – and I see this from AI scientists as well – the idea that AI is going to take over the world and destroy humanity.

It will take a period of adjustment, but we’re nowhere near the actual general artificial intelligence that we have in the film. They said the same thing about Photoshop, and we still need artists, and we still need people to bring that unique perspective. But people said the same thing about the camera. It’s a concern that if you can be replaced with a machine, you will be replaced with a machine. I thought the result was really interesting and we wanted to jump in on the conversation while it was happening, because it’s moving so fast. No – but I think it was fun to play with. The audio is made up of two AI-generated voices, male and female, that are merged together into a very disconcerting voice.Īrtificial intelligence: 5 questions answered that you should knowĭo you have any plans for other projects like this with Midjourney? My other note was, if we do that, then we have to make sure that the narration is also done by AI. It’s basically a futuristic AI trying to talk to the last surviving human. Then I thought, what if we use AI tools to make a film about AI – that makes it interesting! I came home and started writing. We just liked the technical aspect of it: can you tell a cinematic story using only still images? The plot of La Jetée involves a man time-travelling from a post-apocalyptic Paris to our present – it was the inspiration for 12 Monkeys. And he said, if we could do something like La Jetée, the French sci-fi film from the 60s, made of single images, that could be kind of interesting. We were very aware of the ethical discussions going on, but we had no intention of doing anything with it. I thought it was amazing and told Nir to go and play with it. Lavie Tidhar: The whole thing started because I have a friend who’s a game designer and he started telling me about Midjourney with great enthusiasm. Alison Flood: Who came up with the idea for your latest project?

Seven Vampires by Lavie Tidhar