AI’s Test in Non-Fiction Storytelling. How it holds up.
AI being used for non-fiction sounds like a contradiction in terms, says Jon Gisby, Chair of the influential British Screen Forum. He’s right. I don’t disagree. AI has come to be associated with non-fiction storytelling, particularly sci-fi movies, such as Ridley Scot’s Blade Runner, Spielberg’s AI and the forthcoming Gareth Edwards’ The Creator. But factual stories?We’re thirty-two floors above the ground in the heart of London’s financial district which yields this spectacular view. Last time I was this high up was at a creative sitting for the Olympic 2012 bid in Canary Wharf. That’s another story. This week it’s an opportunity to share research into AI’s use in creating historical or contemporary stories. “Flash growth”, that’s what AI expert Professor David Shrier in conversation with World Today Editor Roxanne Escobales refers to AI’s current adoption. As if almost overnight (though yes, it does have a history) and from nowhere it’s opening a constellation of conversations about its application. Its many uses also subscribe to what we might call non-adjacent creativity. For technologies such as AR/VR — they’re extensions of previous media behaviour, in the same way broadcast news emerged from cinema lifting terms as well such as producer, director and editor. AI upends that! It represents opportunities we’ve not discovered yet, alongside the perennial problems, and often in the hands of the same actors, that need solving.It frames conversations that can seemingly be annexations of the world BAI (Before AI) whilst After AI, and by trial and error, entrepreneurs discover new land to settle. Kai Fu Lee’s book AI Super Power exemplifies the latter in his writing about China’s AI explosion. He writes. China’s market-driven entrepreneurs faced no such dilemma. Unencumbered by lofty mission statements or “core values”, they had no problem following trends in user activity wherever it took those companies. Among the many then grappling with this new in-your-hand tesseract, my own concepts emerge from personal circumstances. It’s a simple, yet counter intuitive idea which merited prototyping to see its potential.
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