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What benefit to society was gained by replacing typists, stenographers and dittos with email and desktop printers? Did it make the content of the memorandums better when the bosses went to emails instead of stenographers? That's yet to be seen, because A.I. is still in its infancy, and I'm...

That's exactly what those Sharp Pencil Boys that Walt was always talking about are for. You can bet they're on it. ;) Just as with all other industries on the planet, Hollywood studios will do a cost/benefit analysis on A.I. and determine exactly what jobs it will replace. The voice of the...

I totally get all that. It's a noble thought. It's just important to remember that sentiment didn't have any impact before technology got rid of the ladies in the Steno Pool. And the typists. And the telephone operators. And the milkmen. And the taxi dispatchers. And the airport ticket agents...

Oh, Broadway plays. Did you know I once went to a Broadway play in NY? Phantom Of The Opera around 1988-ish. It was fun. But back OT, the first time you notice or are told about an A.I. voiceover of some talking frog or something, please don't forget to yell "Curse you TP2000!!" at the screen...

Got it. And I'm sure she'll do well in that movie. But it would be folly to pretend that a decade from now A.I. can't replace actresses entirely on screen. It would be the same as claiming in 1980 that your typist sitting at her Selectric could never be replaced by a computer.

It was the 2018 sale that Bob Chapek purposely passed up on, even though multiple senior execs in TDA begged him to buy it. Chapek wasn't thrilled about it, but got convinced to make a bid because the TDA team desperately wanted the facility for a "Cast Campus" on the mall's entire upper floor...

Someone buy the good doctor a bottle of champagne! She just summed it all up beautifully!

That quote is exactly what I remember my opinion being, and that opinion is not "TP2000 wants to fire actors and replace them with bots because he's very mean!" 🤣 It seems that A.I. will be able to replace human actors in the future. It's a technology that is evolving quickly, and I've read...

What if the technology becomes so good that you can't tell whether the talking squirrel is voiced by a human or A.I.? They used to get humans to physically paint using airbrushes over each frame of a movie for a special effect. Now a computer does that with work automatically. Many would argue...

That scene was exactly the scene described in the article I read about that movie. And it's what made me cringe and think "Thank God I'm happy just watching The Crown and The Gilded Age and I don't have to go see movies like that!" 🤣

I did? I thought all actors should be fired? I don't remember that. Although, I suppose technically, you could eventually make a movie with nothing but A.I. actors and actresses if you really wanted to. I do remember in that strike thread there was talk of studios wanting to pay people a...

Ah, let 'em have their fun. :cool: When they find out a year or two from now the voiceover for the Farmers Insurance commercial or the voiceover for the animated starfish in a Saturday morning cartoon is being done by A.I. they can yell at their TV screen.... "TP2000 is responsible for this...

Thank you for getting it. Since the invention of the cotton gin 200-and-however many years ago, history has been filled with human jobs and skills that have been eliminated and replaced with technology. I find it fascinating how many folks think that new technology will be kept outside the...

But who could blame Tom Hanks' brother from making a few extra bucks off of his brother's Pixar fame? I mean, if Tom had just stopped acting after Bosom Buddies, his brother would have had to get a real job. :cool:

I'm afraid the whole Anaheim thing only came from the pointless musings of a crazy man. Namely, me. :cool: I just thought the idea made sense, since Anaheim already built a huge train station for a California High Speed Rail system that will never arrive there. Plus, you know, there's...

I thought it was supposed to be a dog? Or is it a wolf-dog? I'm pretty sure it's just a dog.

I had a similar experience with my nephews almost 25 years ago, when it first opened. We were seated by an animatronic gorilla who would spring to life every 15 minutes and make grunting noises and beat his chest. Then he'd power himself down and go back to frozen silence for another 15 minutes...

What the hell even is a "Coastal Grill"? Are they ashamed of being associated with New Orleans all of a sudden? It's weird. And cringey. And also cheap looking and ugly. Can we also add charmless to that list? https://www.jazzkitchencoastalgrill.com/

I can easily imagine how scared they must be for their jobs, as the technology is here and is getting better quickly. It would be silly to think this won't be an issue of growing importance in the future, even if some folks here in this thread seem to want to pretend it won't be a problem and...

This is the part of the day where I say, yet again, wouldn't it be great if Tomorrowland used just one of its multiple abandoned buildings to set up exhibits and sponsored displays of emerging and future technology?!? Have SoCal Edison or Westinghouse or whomever exhibit things like "gravity...