Ridley Scott hasGladiator IIin theaters soon , but the decorated conductor is probably better - eff for his futurist sci - fi tales than he is for his historical dramas , withBlade RunnerandtheAlienfranchiseleading the charge . In a new interview where he talks mostly about create the follow - up to his 2000 Best Picture winner , Scott ( who turns 87 in a few calendar week ) was asked for his thoughts about a burning matter in the cinematic world : the use of AI .
The question , posed byDeadline , was specifically framed in regards to the theater director ’s “ cynical ” point of view on AI in1979’sAlien — wondering if Scott has changed his judgment on its use over the past four - asset decennary . “ AI is a tool , commemorate that , ” he told Deadline . “ But AI can be also a terrible abuser of normal hooey , even good stuff and nonsense . There ’s one or two citizenry out there … who may be able-bodied to think a little bit beyond [ and expend ] AI for the best they can come up with , the self-aggrandising mind . That would include [ Aliensdirector James ] Cameron . And therefore , we always hope the very best will develop and habituate AI as a cock . ”
However , he continued , it ’s not all brilliant horizons . “ But see , probably one of the best ideas that is the trigger for all the best scientific discipline fable that take after , in [ Stanley Kubrick’s2001 : A Space Odyssey ] . You start off with a sunup of man , you see apes fighting over sustenance in a waterhole … [ then ] one morning , the tycoon , not God , the power of the universe has birth a monolith because it ’s seen that the apes are now contract close enough to be recall entities . And need that boost and help forward . The anthropoid touches the monolith and has the first monolithic idea in story : he picks up a thigh os of a beast and toss off an ape with it . That ’s a weapon , that is a million year quantum leap fore . It ’s a grand superlative idea . ”
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Scott go on the2001example going to finish his thought . “ Idea two , you ’re on a starship now , going to search for the power that is and was , and what was the moment ? Is it what we call God ? … Or is [ it ] simply a exponent style beyond our inclusion , and therefore has examined us for days ? … [ Then you travel ] to the far scope of where they ’ve never been before , and they ’re bank on one crew appendage , name Hal . Hal is a fucking computer . And from that , an AI which wo n’t reveal it to them , but they ’re smart enough to mistrust Hal is betraying them . Because Hal knows that the despatch is more of import than these human existence , and that ’s Hal ’s erroneous belief . Hopefully , AI will always make an error . Hopefully . That ’s a massive idea . ”
Yep , he ’s still taking a conservative stance toward AI . However , when Deadline ask if he ’d rule out “ AI that can help Ridley Scott make bigger and better flick , ” the director did n’t rule it out completely , replying “ never say never . ”
prizefighter IIhits theater November 22 .
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