Luuvies Go on Strike After Seeing the Future

Well, I called it several months ago: Artificial Intelligence (AI) threatens a whole host of middle class occupations. 

Actors are just the first to notice that things like scriptwriting and actual acting can with some judicious tweaking of AI algorithms, be completely replaced.

Greedy corporations like Disney will not hesitate to use this new technology to generate revenue. It may well be there will be an eventual settlement, something along the lines of not using AI generated likenesses of living actors. But that doesn't preclude new original films having AI-generated scripts and AI-generated characters.

Imagine full photo-real films generated by AI from a script generated by AI. All the humans have to do is provide the AI with the idea, the premise for the film and the AI does all the rest.

Actually scratch that: The AI can look at the metrics for a series of films, the number of views, audience figures, box office returns etc. And then it can generate a script that will be most likely to generate the highest box office revenue.

All the higher-up executives need to do is install the system and then the film industry will be able to spew out film after film. Given a fast enough computer system the films could be generated within weeks or days. No more lead times measured in months or years.

The whole acting industry: Agents, executives, deal-makers, producers, directors, actors, screenwriters, all the back-room people like key grips (whatever they are) will ALL be out of a job. 

But it doesn't stop there. Stockbrokers, traders, lawyers, middle managers, artists, a whole raft of middle-class jobs will be redundant once AI takes over.

The only jobs likely to escape the takeover of AI are the intuitive jobs, the jobs that require that intangible essence of humanity. The creators, the imagineers, the forward-thinkers, those that are first in the field, or create a whole new field. 

Although how long it is before AI can out-think the creators or simulate human imagination is anyone's guess.

Whether it can imagine the infinite possibilities of the universe without proof at all is something that we can't really predict. And at that point, does AI find religion?