How Artificial Intelligence Might Change the Way Hollywood Tells Stories

While artificial intelligence researcher Yves Bergquist believes we're "far away" from AI being able to take over for screenwriters, he said Tuesday at The Grill 2018 that could still have tremendous impact on the kinds of stories that get made in Hollywood. That's in part due to how AI applications could help process "low level data" for studios that could help them think beyond their assumptions about what audiences will or will not embrace. Also Read: Why eSports Is'Growing Like Wildfire,' From Activision Blizzard to Echo Fox "If you look at the mathematical structure of narrative that's been told in film or TV, you see there are not that many unique stories," he said at the event, held at the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills. "I think what's going on is creators are censoring themselves and telling the stories that are tried and true over and over and over again." "My hunch is that there are many, many, many more stories that are possible, desirable, that can be told," he added.