Jonathan Yunger, co-founder and CEO of Arcana, an “AI production company in a box,” has seen the entertainment industry change rapidly when it comes to AI. A year ago, he was having the concept of AI production rejected, and now he’s being called in to studios to consult on AI, he said onstage at the Variety Entertainment Summit at CES.
However, Yunger says that AI isn’t yet going to take over actors’ jobs. Instead, it’s going to be a blend of AI and human creativity. “That’s where, I think, the actors come in … the actors are really important, because they’re selling an emotion. Right now, you need real actors,” he explained. “So there’s going to be these blends of AI stuff, real actors, a lot of volume screens — blue screens still — but a lot of AI, which is basically replacing, almost replacing, visual effects to an extent.”
