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Ben Affleck tells actors and writers not to worry about AI


Unions representing Hollywood actors and writers went on strike last year to secure protections against AI systems taking their jobs. But Ben Affleck says

Unions representing Hollywood actors and writers went on strike last year to secure protections against AI systems taking their jobs. But Ben Affleck says that actors and screenwriters shouldn’t worry about AI because it’s not capable of doing either job today, and likely won’t for a long time. Affleck, who runs a movie studio with Matt Damon now, seems to have a pretty good grasp on how AI works, offering a decent definition of transformer architectures at one point in the interview.

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