Deep Thought RSS
The Ben & Marc Show: AI and the Future of Hollywood
This week on “The Ben & Marc Show”, a16z’s co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen take on the most hot-button issue in Hollywood: artificial intelligence. Over the past few months, the topic of AI technology has pushed the entire industry into unknown territory. Screenwriters fear they’ll no longer be needed, while actors believe they’ll be replaced altogether. But is it possible AI can actually level the playing field and create new opportunities for all artists?
In this two-part conversation based on YOUR questions from X (formerly Twitter), Marc and Ben examine the evolving business models of the film and television industries, as well as explore how writers, directors and actors can soon use AI technology to unleash their creative potential in ways they never thought possible. In fact, AI’s future in Hollywood may not be as dystopian as some of our favorite films have led us to believe.
We hope you enjoy this episode!
* Episode Note: This conversation was recorded in two parts. Part one took place before the WGA and AMPTP reached an agreement.
Topics Covered:
00:00:01 - Part 1/ Show intro
00:02:31 - Streaming and the disruption of the entertainment business
00:08:12 - How internet based distribution changed music
00:10:31 - The concept of fungibility
00:16:05 - How creative is AI?
00:27:53 - The VCR causes panic
00:30:20 - How filmmakers will use AI in the future
00:35:58 - Human-created entertainment will be at a premium
00:40:19 - Marc's dystopian scenario for Hollywood
00:45:10 - Save the Cat!
00:54:24 - Part 2 / Show intro
00:55:03 - Marc's utopian scenario for Hollywood
00:59:11 - Fun fact about Star Wars
01:03:21 - Mad Men and using ChatGBT to circumvent writer's block
01:06:15 - How filmmakers and musicians will use AI
01:13:03 - The biggest argument for saving Hollywood
01:18:53 - Subversion of cultural norms through entertainment
01:22:01 - The economic principle of elasticity
01:28:10 - Royalties in the music industry
01:32:30 - Grimes and AI
01:41:40 - South Park and small budgets
01:47:31 - Deepfakes and misquotation
01:54:30 - Stuck Culture and Barbie
02:02:22 - AI and the Global Village
02:15:23 - Sign off
Resources:
Marc on X: https://twitter.com/pmarca
Marc’s Substack: https://pmarca.substack.com/
Ben on X: https://twitter.com/bhorowitz
“Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need” by Blake Snyde: https://amzn.to/3EYsBj3
Films mentioned on this episode:
“Monsters of Man” (Amazon Prime): https://amzn.to/3tf7CWV
“Tenet” (Amazon Prime): https://amzn.to/46aI8bE
“Reservoir Dogs” (Netflix): https://bit.ly/48zbQbM
“Buy Bust” (Netflix): https://bit.ly/3LHcmuw [**Marc’s recommendation**]
TV Series mentioned on this episode:
“Fauda” (Netflix): https://bit.ly/3roB9wN
“Squid Game” (Netflix): https://bit.ly/3LGOreK
“Mad Men” (Amazon Prime): http://bit.ly/3LM2srB
Stay Updated:
Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16z
Find us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z
The views expressed here are those of the individual personnel quoted and are not the views of a16z or its affiliates. This content is provided for informational purposes only, and should not be relied upon as legal, business, investment, or tax advice. Furthermore, this content is not directed at nor intended for use by any investors or prospective investors and may not under any circumstances be relied upon when making a decision to invest in any a16z funds. PLEASE SEE MORE HERE: https://a16z.com/disclosures/
Female Professor Says AI Girlfriends Are Ruining An Entire Generation Of Men | And Women Are Angels?
Female Professor LIBERTY VITTERT Says AI Girlfriends Are Ruining An Entire Generation Of Men. Are modern women not doing the same? Modern Dating is confusing for men and women. Our videos are made for educational purposes.
Support Our Channel:
Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/manospherehd
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/manospherehd
“We Men Ain’t We” T-shirts
https://tinyurl.com/4kdpnwe6
Links video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVu3_wdRAgY
Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI Finding its Best Self | TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
"Is it possible for AI to be built ethically, to operate safely, yet remain useful and perhaps even profitable? Anthropic aims to thread this needle by moving slow and avoiding breakage — and it has raised hundreds of millions to do so. Co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 about taking on the most complex software ever attempted with one hand tied behind his back.
#TCDisrupt2023 #Technology #Startups
Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube
Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: http://tcrn.ch/instagram
TikTok: https://tcrn.ch/tiktok
X: tcrn.ch/x
Facebook: https://tcrn.ch/facebook
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/"
Fireside chat—Daniela Amodei (Anthropic cofounder), Alex Komoroske (Stripe strategy) | Stripe AI Day
Anthropic cofounder and president Daniela Amodei sits down with Stripe head of corporate strategy Alex Komoroske at AI Day.
The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z's Martin Casado
To date, a handful of large companies have captured the value created by advances in AI. a16z general partner Martin Casado explains why with generative AI, that’s changing.
[0:00] AI economics before
[2:30] The AI mediocrity spiral
[6:23] The economics of Generative AI
[11:53] The third epoch of compute
[13:35] Jevon's Paradox
This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.
Tags
- All
- Agentic AI
- AGI
- AI
- AI Art
- AI Ethics
- AI Girlfriends
- AI Models
- AI Risk
- ai tools
- Alan D. Thompson
- Alexandr Wang
- Andrew Huberman
- Andrew Ng
- Artificial Cognition
- Aurora Supercomputer
- Authenticity
- Autism Spectrum
- AutoGPT
- Aza Raskin
- Azure Open AI
- Azure OpenAI Service
- Bias Compensation
- Bias Therapy
- Brian Roemmele
- Chain-of-Thought Prompting
- ChatGPT
- Christopher Rufo
- climate change
- Cognition Enhancement
- Cognitive Bias
- Cognitive Content
- Cognitive Performance
- Collective Intelligence
- Collective Stupidity
- Communication
- Consciousness
- Cosmology
- Critical Race Theory
- Daniel Dennett
- Daniel Schmachtenberger
- David Shapiro
- Deep Thought
- Dennis Prager
- Digital Minds
- Digital Thoughts
- Diversity
- Dojo
- Douglas Murray
- Elon Musk
- Emad Mostaque
- Equity
- Eric Weinstein
- Ethical Community Development
- Ethics
- Everyman
- Exponential Enterprise
- Fei-Fei Li
- Foresight
- Fred Lerdahl
- Frontiers Forum
- Futurecrafting
- Futurework
- Gary Marcus
- Gemini
- Gender
- Gender Pronouns
- Generative AI
- Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM)
- Geoffrey Hinton
- Geoffrey Miller
- Glenn Loury
- Governance
- GPGICs
- GPT-4
- GPT-5
- Higher Education
- Human Potential
- Humanities
- Identity
- Ilya Sutskever
- Implicit Association Tests
- Intel
- Intelligence
- James Lindsay
- Joe Rogan
- Jordan B Peterson
- Jungian Archetypes
- Konstantin Kisin
- Language
- Lex Fridman
- Libra
- Life Coaching
- Liv Boeree
- Male Loneliness
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marcus T. Anthony
- Matt Walsh
- Matthew Berman
- Max Tegmark
- MemoryGPT
- Mental Health
- metabotropic receptors (MRs)
- Metacrisis
- Michio Kaku
- Microsoft AI
- Microsoft Copilot
- Microsoft Jarvis
- Microsoft Open AI
- Microsoft Semantic Kernel
- Millennials
- Mind Reading
- Minecraft
- Mirella Lapata
- MIT
- MLLM
- Moha Bensofia
- Morality
- Multimodal Large Language Model
- Multiversal Stories
- Music
- Narcissism
- Neurodivergence
- Neuroplasticity
- Neuroscience
- Nvidia
- OpenAI
- optical computers
- Personal Development
- Peter Bannon
- Peter H. Diamandis
- Philosophy
- pinecone
- Psychology
- Ramani Durvasula
- Ray Jackendoff
- Ray Kurzweil
- Reflection
- Reid Hoffman
- Relationships
- Religion
- Richard Haier
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- robotics
- Sabine Hossenfelder
- Sam Altman
- Sam Harris
- Sebastien Bubeck
- semantic search
- Seneca
- Simulation
- Singularity Ready
- Stephen Fry
- String theory
- Stupidity
- Super Alignment
- Superintelligence
- Susan Blackmore
- Synthetic Intelligence
- Synthetic Mind
- Technology
- Terence McKenna
- Tesla
- Tesla AI
- The Hero Archetype
- Theism
- Theory of Mind
- Thomas Sowell
- Thought
- Thought Experiments
- Transactivism
- transcendence
- Translation
- Tree of Thoughts
- Tristan Harris
- Turing Lectures
- Unconscious Bias Training
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Wes Roth
- Will Caster
- Woke Ideologies
- Worker Productivity
- Worker Satisfaction
- Yann LeCun
- Yuval Noah Harari