If billionaires came out and said they were going to hunt us for sport, some of you would defend it by saying:
"You’re just mad because you can’t fucking run fast."
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Guillermo del Toro talks about the negatives of AI in storytelling:
“I don’t think mankind can exist without stories. We must understand if we lose stories and the empathy that art gives us, it will be more unrecognizable as human.
And if we don’t have to recognize ourselves we will be lost. I think just being is an act of resistance.”
Kyle Chandler is obviously great as Hal because he's great in everything but if he was 20 years younger this would be Mount Rushmore comic book castings