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"American filmmaker George Lucas is one of the latest to indicate he’s open to
AI in the movie industry.
In a recent interview, the director said resistance to the technology was “very
much like sitting here saying: ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is
really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all
kinds of problems with them and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks,
and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.’”
The
Guardian story was headlined: “George Lucas likens AI sceptics to
luddites clinging to horses and carts.”
“Luddites” have sometimes stood in for enemies of progress: those destined to
be swept aside in the forward march of history.
The label of “neo-Luddism” or “digital Luddite” is also being reclaimed by
people concerned about labour conditions, society and democracy in an era of AI
expansion twinned with personal profit.
But who exactly were the Luddites? They were a collective reaction to the
traumas of the Industrial Revolution, in early industrial England.
Their legacy has been profound, as suggested by both negative and positive
polemics related to them in intellectual and cultural commentary, art and
literature and popular histories produced as digital technology continues to
grow."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
