"The Canadian film-maker, who won an Oscar in 2023 for the documentary Navalny, first became interested in the topic while experimenting with tools released by OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT. The sophistication of the public tools the ability to produce whole paragraphs in seconds, or produce illustrations both thrilled and unnerved him. AI was already radically shaping the filmmaking industry, and proclamations on the promise and peril of AI were everywhere, with little way for people outside the tech industry to evaluate them."
"As an artist, he wondered, how was he to make sense of it all? Roher's anxiety only increased when he and his wife, fellow film-maker Caroline Lindy, learned that they were expecting their first child. It felt like the whole world was rushing into something without thinking, he says in the film, as his excitement for parenthood collided with dread over the unknown variable of AI, which in just a few short years went from proprietary experiment to public good."
The documentary frames a central question about whether AI is an existential threat or an epochal opportunity and presents views from leading experts, critics, and entrepreneurs including Sam Altman. The filmmakers explore how rapidly available public AI tools, able to generate paragraphs and illustrations in seconds, have reshaped the filmmaking industry and provoked mixed reactions. The director's personal anxiety about parenthood and the unknown future of AI motivates an investigation into the technology's mechanics and terminology. The film convenes experts to clarify nebulous concepts and to search for answers about safety and the societal implications of AI.
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