‘Taxi Driver’ screenwriter calls AI ‘smarter’ and ‘better’ than Oscar-nominated writers

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wrote on Facebook Jan 16. 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.Later that same day, Schrader shared another post, saying, “I just sent ChatGPT a script I’d written some years ago and asked for improvements.In five seconds it responded with notes as good or better than I’ve ever received from a film executive.”On Jan 17, Schrader declared he was “stunned” by ChatGPT’s capabilities.

He wrote, “I just asked ChatGPT for ‘an idea for Paul Schrader film.'”“Then Paul Thomas Anderson. Then Quentin Tarantino. Then Harmony Korine.

Then Ingmar Bergman. Then Rossellini. Lang. Scorsese. Murnau. Capra. Ford. Spielberg. Lynch. Every idea ChatGPT came up with (in a few seconds) was good.

And original. And fleshed out,” he went on.“Why should writers sit around for months searching for a good idea when AI can provide one in seconds?”The last post, as well as the others, generated a lot of discussion in the comments, with many surprised that a veteran screenwriter and director would express such interest in the technology.“It’s not that great, Paul.