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What Could Go Wrong?

By: Scott Z. Burns
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Predicting a global pandemic in a hit movie was impressive. Writing a sequel that will work for today’s world might take a whole different kind of intelligence.

Join Scott Z. Burns, the acclaimed screenwriter of Contagion, as he embarks on a mind-bending quest to create a worthy follow-up to his eerily prophetic film. Reuniting with director Steven Soderbergh, members of the cast and crew, and the scientific experts who advised him on the first film, Burns also turns to an unexpected collaborator: artificial intelligence. But can AI predict the source of the next global pandemic—or at least help convince a Hollywood studio to buy your movie pitch? Down the rabbit hole we go, slipping deeper and deeper into the surreal and unknown to explore if human creativity and AI could join forces.

In this deeply thoughtful, occasionally frightening, and often hilarious behind-the-scenes series, Burns assembles an extraordinary collection of minds (both skeptics and optimists) across the world of academia, the sciences, journalism, and the entertainment industry to weigh in. But Burns' most intriguing collaborators? His ever-expanding cast of AI-generated partners led by the incomparable Lexter, Scott’s extraordinarily gifted, sharp-tongued writing partner and, well ... friend. As the adventure spirals into uncharted territory, one question looms large: In this brave new world of human-AI collaboration, what could possibly go wrong? Listen to find out.

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I liked the behind the scenes interviews with tech people creating the AI platforms. The screenwriter perspective, actor, musician perspective was different from my perspective using AI for social media content.

with all the AI, a different perspective

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Fantastic dive into creativity & technology & where they intersect, overlap or morph into something new. With the pros & cons scaled for our examination. And no, this was not written by AI.... or was it?... jk, it wasn't... or wa-... (Insert infinite loop)

Contagious interest

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Great insights into the intersection of AI, future pandemics, Hollywood and art (not the same thing). Brought up multiple issues I’ve thought about in an entertaining yet thoughtful, engaging

Great insights

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Not what I expected from the information provided. It was interesting to hear from an industry insider how AI might be used or affect the future of entertainment. Well produced.

Interesting

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The famous composer (that I only originally knew about from The Music Man constantly said that music recordings would put bands and orchestras out of business since the music would readily be available for sale and anyone could own a copy—staying at home instead of going out to physically listen to music. Perhaps he had part of that right. But creating everything in a movie—the flawed bits of humanity, our shared foibles and gallows humor? That can only be accomplished by real humans. We’re surprising and unique and vulnerable and we understand that while two different people can play the same role—one in a movie and one on Broadway—the only way an actor can play a role in a book is in a writer’s imagination. You can try to get AI to understand us and mimic us, but AI is not us. Not even close.

John Phillip Souza

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I was not expecting the depth of AI to be so well explored. I liked the direction of each episode and continuity across the whole story

Gripping

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Easy and interesting! Low effort to get completely hooked to it! Also the AI sounds in this production sounds scarily authentic.

Very interesting listen!

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I loved the way AI was used to describe how AI works. This was an easy read and held my attention until the end.

AI is real

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Top notch across the board. I was captivated not only by the central topic of AI the underlying analysis of a future pandemic, and the role of science and government. I could listen to this a second time and might well do so

Outstanding

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This was amazing and funny, Babs is hilarious, and Lexter is incredible! We need to stop being so prejudiced. O don’t care that Lexter is an AI; he was clearly the creative force in this collaboration.

I want to see the movie they came up with, and I don’t care that Lexter is an AI.

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