EXCLUSIVE: Actor-producer Matthew Modine and Adam Rackoff ’s Cinco Dedos Peliculas production company have signed on as executive producers of I Hope This Helps! , a documentary that explores the promise and peril of artificial intelligence. Writer-director Daniel Freed enlisted Google’s AI chatbot Bard to help create the documentary, described as a “humorous, genre-bending hybrid film” that invites viewers to ponder “the evolving relationship between humanity and technology.” Responding to prompts from the filmmaker, Google’s Bard fashioned a furry blue creature with big eyes to (one imagines) lessen the menacing specter of AI.
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As a SAG-AFTRA board member, Modine was deeply engaged in the contentious contract talks last year between the actors’ union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, a dispute that was only resolved after a nearly four-month-long strike. AI became one of the main sticking points in those nego.
