P&C Review Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ from Lagunitas, then do five topics in five minutes each.
- What are the actual numbers on police murders, vs. what people believe.
- Thoughts on fat shaming.
- LSD therapy for depression and death anxiety?
- Meta humans, created by AI. What are the consequences?
- Is there a health benefit to looking at breasts?
Just listened to this one. My gut reaction to the AI actors thing is that acting is an art, not merely a function. You might not need actors per se anymore, but the people running the AI characters would still need to know as much about acting as actors and/or directors do in order for the acting to be of any quality. I’m thinking of how they did Gollum in the Lord of the Rings; in order to create a believable CGI character, they had an accomplished character actor act out the entire role with the other actors while capturing his movement, then subbed in the CGI character, while also using the actor’s voice acting. You wouldn’t need to do the voice but you would need someone who knew the ins and outs of voice acting to create the speech in a believable way.
So it’s certainly doable but not as simple as just creating a character and feeding it a script, if you want the virtual acting in your movie to be any good.
That’s a good point, but couldn’t that, also, be done with AI? Couldn’t you feed information from great actors into a routine and generate the gestures, intonation, expressions, etc?
Maybe. But good acting means bringing to life what is supposed to be happening in the story and to the character, through those gestures, expressions, etc., and to create the whole system that matches those actions to the content the actor is portraying would require great skill in acting from *somebody* in the process. I’m not saying you’d necessarily have to use actors but you would have to have people who knew the art of acting as well as actors do, or even better, to design how everything worked. Maybe you’d only have to do that once (not literally, you’d want to be constantly improving and updating it, but I mean you wouldn’t have to do it afresh for every role) but you’d still have to have “acting talent” involved on some level even if not actual actors playing the roles.