Actors

Christiaan says

Actors just love to... well, act. There's lots of actors struggling to get by - but they just love what they do, so they'll never quit. Money's just never been the object. Why let a robot do what i love to do myself?
As for CGI's, i reckon there will be a future for programmers and animators who 'own' specific builds as famous and popular as 'living' stars are right now. It could earn them lots of money probably. Bet they are just replacing puppeteers. There is a glorious future for puppeteering - who'd have thought...

seojin (Highly likely) says

the reason why is simple, AI is good at memorying, so if you just tell AI what to do, record voices, BOOM! the show will go perfect

A thought on Digital Reconstruction and Translation (Highly likely) says

Honestly, with the recent advancements in Deep Neural Networks and Computer Vision, as well as increased computing capacity for photorealistic rendering (just look at some of the realtime volumetric capture and reconstructions the Unreal Engine has made possible) the probability of robots (a word used not just for physical machines, but for software as well) replacing human actors is quite high.

The replacement of ALL human actors? Probably not. But when one actor with sufficient motion capture technology can be translated to any likeness needed, the need for large numbers of actors for a single project can be eliminated. Not to mention, with DNNs learning HOW we express emotion through physicality, a director will eventually be able to simply input general parameters, and then fine tune the character to their needs.

Obviously, this will be quite different for live theatre, but for film, tv, animation, and even voicework, digital reproduction will revolutionize the industry.

n says

If you want to act just for easy money, I figure it's better if you don't, kiddo

Matt says

Well I would like to be an actor when I grow up mainly because you make loads of easy money, which is the reason why robots maybe actually should take over this job because actors get paid a lot they are rich and spoiled.

If robots took over this job then that money would go to more useful things like helping the poor become richer.

Simply put no one will be rich and spoiled nor poor and starving. However, this doesn't mean good news for me because would love to make that kind of easy money.

Just_A_Person (Small chance) says

There could be a small chance but the fact is the robots won't be able to show the right amount of emotion and chemistry human actors can. Actors make people fall in love with there facial expressions and how they pour there hearts out. Robots won't be able to do that no matter how much programming they have.

Jako (No chance) says

no way in hell

Jay (Small chance) says

Even in a worst case scenario where cgi takes over, human actors will likely not be replaced

ScarletRose (Small chance) says

robots are nowhere near being human enough for our brains to recognize it

Rb (Small chance) says

I think it’s going to be a while before Robots will be able to act like humans fully

Renan Tavares (No chance) says

robos can't emote and emotion is the best way to make comedy

Ana (Likely) says

Robots can act better than humans, if programmed to.

No (Likely) says

I think that actors will not be replaced by robots as much as by animations and artists.

Carlos says

CGI actors are becoming more and more realistic.