Artificial intelligence has become a hot-button topic across creative industries over the past couple of years, but Star Wars creator George Lucas is among those who think the technology is "inevitable" when it comes to filmmaking. Lucas gave a wide-ranging interview to French outlet Brut FR at the Cannes Film Festival recently, which you can watch in full below, in which he talks about his history in film, his thoughts on the future of cinema, and more. At one point during the 10-minute chat (around the 5:30 mark), the interviewer asks Lucas about how he feels about the use of AI in filmmaking, and Lucas starts by touching on the visual effects company he founded, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), and the ways in which it's changed cinematic technology.
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twitter.com/uXMN78AktA — Brut FR (@brutofficiel) May 24, 2024 "Well, we've been using it for 25 years, and it's not AI, but we use all the digital technology because we pioneered a lot of that," he says. "Because especially at ILM, we were the only place that was doing digital.
" "But the thing of it is," Lucas goes on, "it's inevitable. I mean, it's like saying, 'I don't believe these cars are gunna work. Let's just sti.
