LA FIRE

🎥 Hollywood is changing thanks to AI!

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the entertainment industry, and Hollywood is no exception. The fires in California might be the cultural marker.

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LA Fire

It isn’t often I overtly wax on about topics beyond where I find insight and humor.  But I found myself pegged to the flatscreen all weekend, following the fires in Los Angeles.  Writing just wasn't funny with all the flame.

Now, I do know a couple of people down there.  Distant at best.  But still, the fire and all its created detritus really got me thinking.

About what you ask?

Well, a lot, actually.

Let me backup for a moment.  I declare that AI is just one more step in our cultural evolution.  And in an odd sort of way, the fires seem to be yet another bit of cultural leveling that we are witnessing.

If you remember, in years past, those tape-framed-pocket-protector sets really ruled the world.  They made the money and made the lower IQ of us take a back seat to those that raced desks and chairs and computer screens, taped glasses and making code like jiffy pop.

Well between AI and the net, the geeky set and those studious accountants are about to get quite the wakeup call, as AI will level the playing field, and make an alien thought of unemployment quite known to those thought to be impossible to replace.

In short, AI is about to really level the playing field and change lives … yes, yours and mine … forever.  Sort of like how air travel brought the world together.  Except we will all be clanging each other like wine glasses at some wedding we really didn’t want to attend.

Yep, it will affect EVERYTHING.  Just think about that for a bit.  And then follow my weird mental floss for a moment.

AI is changing entertainment.  Changing hollywood. The age of big budget films (which generally aren't shot on film anymore) is over beyond the arthouse.  AI and special effects, a once costly problem, is quickly being taken over by the cost effective Nvidia based chip solution.

Oh, it is more complicated, I know, but special effects, script writing, character development, music, is all quickly being taken over by this synthetic beast called AI.  Nevermind that we don’t go to theaters anymore.  It will be served to you like your mom served you applesauce as a child.  Right to your TV based on everything you like.  The best movie you ever saw … all seemingly atomic, right to your home.  Created and served on demand.

My point is not really AI, but that of societal change.  

So what does this have to do with the fires in LA.

Well, I’m glad you asked.

Because all that Hollywood glam, that great institutional export of American culture that ruled the world for 100 years, burned to the ground right before our eyes.  Suddenly movie stars looked just like the normal people they are (even if we would rather they be well pedestaled heroes) and were sent scrambling for shelter right along with the common folk that supported Hollywood … be it in the form of the barista or the carpenter or the key grip or the struggling actor or the scoring musician.  

Billy Crystal and Paris Hilton, it seems, became just like Bob and Sally Smith.  I don’t know any of them.  But if you think about it, we all do know them.  Because right on TV, almost on cue, they all become not elite, just, I guess, normal people.  Some with money, some without.  But all the memories and the anguish … shared by Los Angelenos of all stripes, disappeared.

All, it seems, became the new homeless.  And so did our cultural institution that we all really wanted to be a part of in our minds if we had the luck, the talent, or the ability to pay the morally reprehensible price for stardom.  Reduced to rubble and tears and a shared experience.

Something we used to pay $7.25 for on a good day.  To see the so-called elite entertain us for a couple of hours.  They didn’t pay to see us.  We paid to see them.  And we laughed and cried at them.  

Now we only cry with them.  And this time everyone is only looking at each other.

I am going to miss Hollywood.  The ego, well not so much.  The ego is buried in rubble between the Palisades and the Pacific Coast Highway.  

Movies, it seems, are a thing of the past. I’ll miss them.  Much like all those suffering miss the LA life and memories, gone in an instant.  

Now, we all just watch each other.

More later … 

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