Matthew Modine signed off on preparing the AI ​​document 'I hope this helps!'

special: Actor-producer Matthew Modine and Adam Rakoff's Cinco Dados Peliculas production company have signed on as executive producers. I hope this helps!a documentary that explores the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.

Writer-director Daniel Fried enlisted Google's AI chatbot Bard to help create the documentary, which is described as a “hilarious, genre-bending hybrid film” that takes viewers to “humanity and invites consideration of the changing relationships between technologies.

Responding to the filmmaker's prompting, Google's Bard created a cute blue creature with big eyes that (one imagines) mitigates the terrifying specter of AI.

'Stranger Things' star Matthew Modine attends an event for 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' in London on December 14, 2023.

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“Artificial intelligence is the most important, life-changing technological advance in modern human history. Full stop,” Modiin said in a statement. As a SAG-AFTRA board member, Modine was deeply involved in last year's contentious contract negotiations between the actors' union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which was resolved after a nearly four-month-long strike. was AI became one of the main points of these negotiations, with actors insisting on considerations of how to use the technology in film and television production.

“Science fiction literature, television shows, and movies have repeatedly presented stories that reveal the multitude of potential dangers artificial intelligence poses to all of us. As is often the case, science fiction becomes science fact. .And here we are. The AI ​​tail is wagging the AI ​​dog,” Modine continued in his statement. “AI gatekeepers have the power to change and control human behavior in ways that were unimaginable just half a century ago. Daniel Fried's new documentary uses satire and whimsy to question whether The benefits of AI may or may not outweigh the many risks. I hope this helps! Team This is a movie that needs to be watched.

I hope this helps! It premiered at the prestigious Documentary Film Festival in San Rafael, California in May. It will continue as a festival before wider distribution plans are announced.

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“This project was started as an effort to bring as many people as possible into the conversation about how AI is changing the world we live in,” notes Fred. “We are thrilled to have Matthew and Adam partner with us,” said Daniel Fried. “Not only do they have a wealth of experience in the world of independent film, but Matthew has proven his roles as an actor and as an advocate for other actors. I have thought deeply about artificial intelligence. After considering the topic of unintended consequences of technology on humanity Oppenheimerhe also eloquently shared his thoughts on AI while working on the recent SAG-AFTRA negotiations.

I hope this helps! It was written and directed by Daniel Freed and features the work of cinematographer Brandon Hubbard, editor Joshua Bowen, and composer John E. Lowe – all of whom previously worked together on CNBC's white-collar crime documentary series. what was American greed.

Cinco Dedos Peliculas (CDP) is a film and new media production company co-founded by Moden with producer and former Apple marketing executive Adam Rakoff. Modine and Rakoff have produced several award-winning films, environmental documentaries, and animated features, including against the present (2021) and A love affair with my marriage (2023). His recent documentary, Downwarddescribes the consequences of decades of nuclear bomb testing on American soil. Downward Narrated by Martin Sheen and starring Michael Douglas, Lewis Blake, and John Wayne's son Patrick.

Fred worked as a senior producer and writer for CNBC for 12 years. American greed. He is its co-author. Call Me Commander: An ex-intelligence officer and journalist who uncovers his scheme to take down America., a non-fiction book detailing a daring charity fraud by a man wanted by the FBI for questioning in an espionage investigation. His work for television and print has been broadcast or published by PBS, Current TV, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

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