洛杉矶--本·阿弗莱克（Ben Affleck）厌倦了他所谓的针对人工智能的“宣传”，因为他已成为好莱坞这项新兴技术最直言不讳的支持者之一。
LOS ANGELES — Ben Affleck is fed up with what he calls "propaganda" against artificial intelligence as he has become one of Hollywood's most vocal proponents of the emerging technology.
阿弗莱克在7月份成为头条新闻，当时Netflix宣布向他支付了高达5.87亿美元的人工智能初创公司InterPositive，业内几乎没有人知道他一直在从事这项事业。
Affleck made headlines in July when it was announced that Netflix paid him a whopping $587 million for his AI startup InterPositive, a venture virtually no one in the industry knew he had been working on.
阿弗莱克周三出席彭博社银幕时间峰会时被问及批评者对这笔交易的“愤世嫉俗的看法”，该交易声称Netflix收购了他的公司，以便它可以利用人工智能与一位知名电影制片人一起做“卑鄙的事情”。提供掩护。“嗯，这确实是一个非常愤世嫉俗的观点，”阿弗莱克对这个问题做出了回应。
Appearing Wednesday at the Bloomberg Screentime summit, Affleck was asked about the "cynical take" critics had over the deal, which claimed Netflix bought his company so it can do "despicable things" with AI with a reputable filmmaker attached to "provide cover." "Well, that's a very cynical view indeed," Affleck reacted to the question.
Netflix首席执行官承认特朗普正在帮助演艺界，因为联邦税收抵免法案旨在推动好莱坞的工作这位奥斯卡获奖作家兼制片人坚称Netflix没有能力做“卑鄙的事情”和疏远艺术家，因为“他们需要与人打交道”，并形容这位主播在他的各种项目中“超级明智”。
NETFLIX CHIEF ADMITS TRUMP IS HELPING SHOWBIZ INDUSTRY AS FEDERAL TAX CREDIT BILL AIMS TO FUEL HOLLYWOOD JOBS The Oscar-winning writer and producer insisted Netflix isn't in a position to do "despicable things" and alienate artists because "they need to be in business with people," describing the streamer as being "super judicious" when it comes to his various projects.
“我和导演们坐下来说，‘听着，伙计，你可以，你可以改变这里的背景，你可以做这个，你可以做那个。“我发现，电影制片人和人们--一旦他们坐下来，有一种控制感和理解正在发生的事情的感觉，并且它从这个模糊的抽象可怕的外星人中转移出来，你知道，‘它会杀死我们所有人，就像我们是曲别针……’所有这些宣传，”阿弗莱克说。
"I'm sitting down with directors going, 'Look, man, you can just, you can change the background here, you can do this, you can do that.' And what I find is that filmmakers and people — once they sit with it and have a sense of control and a sense of understanding what's happening, and it moves from this nebulous abstract terrifying alien, you know, 'It's gonna to kill us all like we're paper clips…' all this propaganda," Affleck said.
“实际上，大家都明白这究竟是什么——这是一种全新的计算方式，能辅助各类工具的使用，更是技术上的重大进步。它与我们影视行业长期以来不断推进的技术革新方向完全契合。”柯南·奥布赖恩将深夜电视节目行业的衰落比作底特律的没落。“大家都反应积极，纷纷表示‘太好了，太棒了’。如今这种技术也已被应用于电影制作，参与制作的人员数量并未减少，实际上从技术层面来讲，就业人数甚至还有所增加。在我看来，这些技术开发者确实信守了承诺——他们致力于把现有工作做得更好，而非单纯为了削减成本或做出什么恶劣之举，”他继续说道。
"And they actually see what it is — it's another form of computing that does tools and is a technological advancement that's really in keeping with a long-standing series of technological improvements we've made in the film and television business." CONAN O'BRIEN COMPARES DECLINING LATE-NIGHT TV LANDSCAPE TO DETROIT "It's like the switch. They go, 'Oh great, wonderful.' And it's being used on films now where they're the same number of people. In fact, more people, technically, are being employed. And I think it's — they have been absolutely, in my view, true to their word of we want to make what we're doing better. We're not trying to just, you know, slash cost or do heinous things," he continued.
这位《逃离德黑兰》的导演透露，他在即将在Netflix上线的电影《Animals》中将人工智能技术应用于“诸多环节”，不过并未列举具体实例，只是将其比作魔术师泄露自己的魔术诀窍。
The "Argo" director revealed he used AI for "lots of things" in his forthcoming Netflix film "Animals," but refrained from pointing to specific examples of it, comparing it to a magician spoiling their tricks.
点击此处获取最新的媒体与文化资讯。当被问及哪些行业领域最容易受到人工智能的影响时，阿弗莱克对该技术会掌控整个行业的担忧不以为然。
CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND CULTURE NEWS When asked what parts of the industry he thought would be most affected by AI, Affleck dismissed concerns about an industry takeover by the technology.
“我真正担忧的并非人工智能本身，而是我的孩子们在学校里的情况。我担心过去三年里大学里获得A等级的学生比例上升了30%，也担心学生们产生习得性无助心理，更担心技术被滥用。我并不担心会出现《终结者》里的天网系统，也不认为人工智能会以任何实质性方式掌控整个行业。我认为它只会起到辅助作用罢了，”阿弗莱克说道。他提到的“天网系统”正是《终结者》系列电影中的虚构人工智能系统。
"When I worry about AI, I worry about like my kids in school. I worry about 30% rise in, you know, the number of A's given out at colleges over the last three years. I worry about learned helplessness. I worry about responsible use. I don't worry about Skynet and I don't think that it's going to take over this business in any meaningful way. I think it's going to be additive," Affleck said, referencing the fictional AI system in the "Terminator" movies.
“但我认为，必须有人真正介入并采取行动，不能让人们继续把头埋进沙子里。这件事需要被纳入其中。就像许多技术一样，人们需要逐渐适应并熟悉它。紧接着便能摸清它的底细。你会看到它所有行不通的地方、所有失败，以及它在许多方面表现出的某种笨拙，而它最终会变成一个可以理解、可以掌握的事物，”他补充道。
"But I think someone has to actually step in and do it in a way where it is that you can't just bury your head in the sand. It needs to be incorporated. Like a lot of technologies, it requires getting comfortable and getting familiar with. And then immediately it's knowable. You see all the ways in which it doesn't work, all the failures. The sort of dumb nature of it in a lot of ways, and it becomes a knowable thing," he added.