'Nonsense': Christopher Nolan doesn't think AI can replace human creativity

'Nonsense': Christopher Nolan doesn't think AI can replace human creativity

Christopher Nolan, the Oscar-winning director of Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight, recently spoke about artificial intelligence (AI) in an interview with AFP.

He said that big-budget action films like his would not be affected by AI.

"The interesting thing with AI is I've never seen a technology that's been so successfully adopted by Wall Street and by investors and by tech companies that the public has so thoroughly rejected," he said.

'There's a sort of disdain for things AI'

Nolan noted that while AI has been widely adopted in business applications and online search services, it faces major pushback in creative industries like music, cinema, and art.

He mentioned a term coined by young people called "AI slop," referring to the overwhelming amount of AI-generated text, video, and audio content on social media.

"There's a sort of disdain for things AI," he added.

Nolan expects AI to create useful 'imaging tools'

Nolan, who used special effects in his latest film The Odyssey, said he expected AI to create some useful "imaging tools."

However, he dismissed the idea that AI could completely replace humans and their creativity.

"But I think the idea that it replaces human beings wholesale and human creativity, to me it's a nonsense," he said.