Charlie Brooker, who created the smash-hit Netflix series The Black Mirror, has shared his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence as its use increases
Screenwriter and TV host Charlie Brooker believes cinema fans will one day be able to appear in the movies they watch as part of the ticket price thanks to AI.
The Black Mirror creator is known for his dark stories on screen which sometimes predict the future.
Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival he said fans may become part of films and you may also be able to choose new lead stars in old classic films, with Charlie amusingly offering up the idea of “Lorraine Kelly in Die Hard”.
Asked about AI in the TV industry, possibly even providing scripts or things to watch on screen, Charlie said: “I have to believe that people want audiences, want humans communicating with them, not just the machine. So I kind of have to believe that you’re always going to want the messy human in the mix. I can see sort of the value as maybe as an analytical tool.
” A much cleverer a writer than me said to me the execs will take our script, feed them into AI sit down and watch a video, a rough video preview of it. I could sort of see that felt plausible to me, so that basically the script becomes a prompt, and then you get notes on that which worries me, I hope we will be keeping keyboards warm with flesh. “
Going onto discuss film and cinema, he added:” I had an idea once, which I think is now close to possible, say there’s 200 people going to a cinema. You go in and on the way it scans up your face, and then you sit down, you watch the film, and it’s cast the film randomly, with the members of the actual audience there. And you can do this with old films.
“So imagine if you went to see Raiders Of The Lost Ark and you don’t know if you’re going to be the Indiana Jones or a Nazi.
” I can imagine a lot of AI generated imaging kind of remix of two things so you can be like ‘ ok I want to watch Die Hard with Lorraine Kelly. “
Charlie said he has recently tried to use Chat GPT to help him with a computer game but all the advice had been wrong and he has” wasted an hour”. Charlie also teased an upcoming announcement about a new and” very different “project which he expects to announce in the next few days.
He spoke about how understanding Netflix had been about him satirising subscription models in Black Mirror episode Common People, starring Rashida Jones.
” I would love to say that I stormed into a boardroom and went: ‘ This must happen. ‘ No, they’ve been very up for that sort of thing, “he said.
Brooker said he was fortunate in being able to cast actors, including Paul Giamatti, in the anthology drama, but said he still regularly writes “begging letters” to try to land other big names. He added that most consider Black Mirror a fun gig. “It’s exciting because you’re not bored, and you don’t have familiarity breeding contempt,” he said.
Source: Mirror
Leave a Reply