Tina Fey reveals the one factor she thinks AI will not ever have the ability to do
Actress and author Tina Fey has made a daring declare about AI’s future this week.
The American entertainer attended the Edinburgh TV Competition and spoke to the viewers on the ultimate day (22 August) a couple of vary of matters.
Fey, finest identified for her roles in 30 Rock and Saturday Evening Reside, the 55-year-old spoke about the way forward for the leisure business and the way issues may look as AI begins to get extra concerned with the creation of artwork.
It has been in a position to create ‘authentic’ music in current instances that’s indistinguishable to human-made tunes, a lot in order that an AI band rose to the highest of the Spotify charts.
All of which has left movie and TV writers understandably frightened, with their jobs doubtlessly on the road.
Nevertheless, it appears like Fey is not afraid of AI taking up the world of TV and movie.
Chatting with the viewers, she claimed: “AI can do all kinds of different terrifying issues, like writing music however to this point, it is unable to be humorous.”
Paradoxically, again in 2023 in the midst of the Hollywood writers’ strike, the Hollywood Reporter gave ChatGPT the next immediate: “Write a 30 Rock script about Liz Lemon, Two-fer, Lutz and Frank happening strike and the way it impacted TGS.”
The result was decidedly not humorous, so it looks like Fey could also be on to one thing right here.
Fey has not too long ago been praised for her co-creating hit Netflix collection The 4 Seasons, which has not too long ago been renewed for a second season.
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The comedy author additionally spoke extra on the UK adaptation of Saturday Evening Reside, which was introduced again in April.
Creator Lorne Michaels is about to government produce the present, as a British model of the long-running sketch present will quickly be on our screens.
Talking about how American writers would keep up all evening the day earlier than the learn by, Graham Norton identified that Brits merely would not do this.
“This is a grimy secret. You do not have to do it that means. You possibly can begin within the morning,” Fey replied.
She additionally spoke in regards to the time former prime minister David Cameron requested to fulfill her to discuss British exhibits.
“I bought this name from somebody at NBC that stated in case you may come into Rockefeller Centre, David Cameron is right here and has requested to fulfill you,” she recalled.
“He was the present prime minister. Turned out all it was, was he wished to fulfill me and say hello.”
Regardless of an invitation to go to the UK and its comedy writers from Cameron himself, she turned the provide down.
She defined that he wished her to persuade them to make ‘lots of of episodes’ as an alternative of the six to 12 that many exhibits from British shores persist with per season.
Fey admitted: “And I used to be like I can’t, as a result of all of us wish to do it the best way they do it, be Ricky Gervais and be like ‘Do not forget that time I made 12 half-hours’. That is the approach to life.”
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