The View from Here

The proliferation of A.I. fembots is only the latest iteration in a centuries-old quest to create the “perfect” woman

By Olivia Rutigliano

At the Cannes Film Festival last week, Demi Moore shared her thoughts on the arrival of A.I. in the film industry. She told a reporter from Variety that Hollywood should “find ways [to] work with it” because its involvement is inevitable. “ A.I. is here,” she said. “And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose.” But she assured the crowd that, while Hollywood could do more to “protect” itself, “the truth is there really isn’t anything to fear because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical, it comes from the soul…. And that they can never recreate through something that is technical.” Except, of course, they already have. READ ON