‘Taxi Driver’ screenwriter calls AI ‘smarter' and 'better' than Oscar-nominated writers
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"Taxi Driver" screenwriter Paul Schrader expressed his apparent interest and support of AI on social media, prompting questions from fans.
"I've just come to realize AI is smarter than I am. Has better ideas, has more efficient ways to execute them," he wrote on Jan 16. "I've just come to realize AI is smarter than I am. Has better ideas, has more efficient ways to execute them." "Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?"
He continued, "This is an existential moment, akin to what Kasparov felt in 1997 when he realized Deep Blue was going to beat him at chess," referring to Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, who famously faced off with an IBM supercomputer named Deep Blue in tournament play and lost.