Is AI Replacing Human Actors...?

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In the face acting space, AI is grabbing sensationalist headlines as an innovative wave surge that will disrupt the value of art created by real camera / screen actors. At first look, at this time.(Mar 2023) . Perhaps the best examples of this are the completely realistic AI avatars of models that have surprisingly large followings on such social media platforms as Instagram and Tik Tok. With a second look, it becomes noticeable that while large, these followings and interactions are perhaps not as large as could or perhaps should be expected, if AI avatars and models are really going to succeed in replacing real humans. Perhaps is it possible, that the real human viewers are not completely convinced that the avatars and models are completely real, and thus have less acceptance than the real thing?

In other words, the audience’s reluctance to believe the AI products are completely realistic is rendering these AI actors to be not completely believable, and reducing appeal. Suspending dis-belief is, after all, a key function of the real actors craft - a facet AI has yet to master. The lack of spontaneity also threatens to contribute to reduced appeal. To succeed with the intuitive attraction of audiences, perhaps the AI actors must first progress to the capability to replicate the creative process of human actors. Without the ability to effectively replicate the creative process of an artist, the creative process of the entire team of artists, all contributing from their specific disciplines, is undermined and notably deficient, deprecating quality. While this conundrum evolves, perhaps we shall have AI actors take their place as a new form of character, in a new space between cartoon characters, and human actors, with a format entirely their own.

This would seem to be ideal for encroachment into the world of adaptations of comic book science fiction into ‘movies' film and provides extensive scope for surreal creations in a form not yet ‘scened’, so perhaps that is one very likely future awaiting AI avatars. The undeniable truth is that human audiences love cartoon characters, animal stories, and wide range of stories about other objects of affection, in a different way than they love stories about themselves. For this reason it seems likely that AI actors’ inability to suspend dis-belief will continue to plague their attraction by audiences that are intuitively suspicious of being 'duped' into disbelief by characters that are themselves known to be unreal. Note: I did not use the word ‘fraud’… but it may be an uncomfortable subliminal intuitive inference within audiences’ minds....

The Creative Concept…

At the core of the above presumption is an understanding of the creative concept as producing a result within the viewing audience that resonates deeply in a way that moves them from their present place of individual consciousness. Currently, AI creations are easily describable by a viewer in simple terms that may have simple appeal – perhaps pleasant, amusing, even trite. In comparison, human creations reach into and affect human viewers in ways that often defy description with a single universally accepted explanation. Truly great and timeless human creations embody deeply instinctive and intuitive chords that touch a haptic nerve within individual viewers, with the often seen effect of reverberating across the planes of the collective consciousness of the human race, otherwise separated by geography, culture, soci-economic status, and ideology. Attaining this capability, is not defined by the a priori requisite of being sentient...Instead, it derives from presently undefinable and undescribable stimuli of primordial nature that thus far has been as illusive a challenge for philosophers as the definition of other instincts, and emotional intelligence, such as love. Humans can produce this creativity despite being unable to conclusively define it, but machines can not produce what humans can not define- until and unless machines attain the capability of learning in a manner that extends beyond replication by example, which is the foundation of all present machine learning based AI. In these present circumstances, AI shall not succeed as a substitue for human creativity, and is thus another reason why AI creations are generally likely to evolve into a separate form on the spectrum if story telling

AGI and Vertical Progression

The combination of advances in quantum computing speed and general learning capabilities are producing (March 2025) vertical take-off for artifical General Intelligence’s theoretical potential to imitate, originate, and evolve aspects of the craft of acting. Where this leads, remains to be seen. Parallel evolution remains a highly likely probability. AI’s ability to congnizantly devrelop intentional ‘singularities' in interpretation and portrayal remain a key hurdle. AGI divergences from ‘commonalities’ may indeed create entirely unexpected and fascinating ‘hallucinations’. While fascinating, these are unlikely to be as widely accepted by viewing human audiences, initially, and may result in the opposite effect- rather than comfort and familiarity, producing instead, the opposite. This is another reason to suspect that human and AGI actors may evolve into two separate sub-sets of content types for audiences.

An intriguing commercial attraction, is the expected ability of AGI to replicate a successful formula, whether in actors interpretation, portrayal, or even story creation and script elements, for development of sequels with similar profitability.

Obviously, with the advent of AGI vertical take-off, human actors may become increasingly wary of sharing information openly on the internet to assist in access for AI training... and so sharing specific insights are limited to direct correspondence... email RYANOL.1@yandex.com for more information.

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