Reuters: When Steven Spielberg directed the film “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” the technology was the stuff of science fiction — a device to tell a story about the ethics of creating sentient machines.
“I don’t want AI making any creative decisions that I can’t make myself,” said Spielberg, in an interview with Reuters. Spielberg spoke on Thursday after a ceremony dedicating the Steven Spielberg Theater on the Universal Studios lot.
Spielberg’s 2001 modest box office hit “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” was a meditation on love, loss and what it means to be human through the eyes of a discarded humanoid robot. In the Pinocchio-like journey set in a futuristic dystopia, David, the android boy, yearns to be human, searching for love, in a world of machines and artificial intelligence.
The film hit screens when AI was still in its nascent stages and predated the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT by 21 years.
“But right now, I don’t want AI making any creative decisions”, Spielberg said.
He said he has yet to use AI on any of his films so far, though he is open to possible applications of it behind-the-scenes, in functions like budgeting or planning.
“I don’t want to use it in front of the camera right now,” Spielberg said. “Not quite yet.”
