Ben Affleck is confident AI cannot replace Hollywood movies for this reason [Video]

Ben Affleck is getting a lot of attention for his views on artifical intelligence.

Last week, the actor spoke at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha 2024 investor summit, taking time to share his thoughts on how AI will affect the entertainment industry. 

“Movies will be one of the last things, if everything gets replaced, to be replaced by AI,” he explained.

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“AI can write you excellent imitative verse that sounds Elizabethan, it cannot write you Shakespeare,” Affleck went on. “The function of having two actors, or three or four actors in a room and the taste to discern and construct, that is something that currently entirely eludes AI’s capability and I think will for a meaningful period of time.”

He continued, “What AI is going to do is going to disintermediate the laborious, less creative and more costly aspects of filmmaking that will …