Actors

KV (No chance) says

Robots cannot sing, and I know that emotions will be very hard to program into a robot singing something like Burn from Hamilton.

Dan (Highly likely) says

The industry is all about making money. If a movie can be made cheaper using AI actors, why wouldn't be made. Let's see, would your like to pay an actor 20 million dollars and royalties, or an AI actor. The AI actor only costs for the initial cost, no royalties. Royalties are a percentage of the movie profits that goes to the individual actor. https://www.nickiswift.com/118845/actors-make-insane-amounts-money-residuals/

So, If an AI character can be created by a team of programmers and all you are paying for is the time it took them to make this actor. It is all about the money........ it's gonna happen. Here is a list of some actors that made $20,000,000 for one movie. https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Actors-Who-Can-Make-20-Million-Acting-One-Movie-70500.html

Love (Small chance) says

Because NOTHING is a better actor than humans and animals.

Luis Guzman (Small chance) says

Robots have to have some sort of feelings to be a good actor i dint think they can take their jobs

Natalia (Could go either way) says

They just do whatever you tell them to, without flaw. I think it could go either way, but I'd prefer actual humans

Lucelia (Small chance) says

Seeing robots playing humans would not be interesting. I believe that the acting profession will be more valued with the automation of everything, since those who like to connect with others will be able to do so through the performing arts.

HIJHIIJ (No chance) says

who in would want to watch a movie with robots. It will make it look fake

John Smith (No chance) says

I don’t think robots could ever express the level of emotion that humans can, and I think this makes it incredibly unlikely that actors will be replaced by robots in the next 20 years

LikelyYou.com says

Computer graphics and machine learning mean that old actors need never die. Hollywood has resurrected Carrie Fisher, Oliver Reed, and many others post-mortem in order to finish movies. As the technology improves to replace actors, it may be that Hollywood won’t need new ones.

Mark says

When they take these jobs, or any humanities job for that matter, we'll have a dystopia, where technology rules over what people want and we are subordinates to technology... oh wait

:) (No chance) says

Though an AI may be highly advanced, it won’t portray the same emotion a human would. I’m not saying AI’s are bad; But even if they can record our voices and learn human cultures, actors can evoke emotions above a robots level to their role. For example, they could be on stage and (if your a stage geek like I am), they need to know how to belt. I honestly don’t think an AI can do that. Now some people would argue that “You can just put the lines into it’s head and it’ll know it all!”, but as an actor/actress, learning the lines let’s the actor/actress gain experience, and grow as a person.

Guio says

Im lmao with this page! The main problem with robots is that...they are not human! amazing. I think they are not going to be able to replace Humanities jobs in any way (actors, voiceactors, translators, teachers,...) and even social jobs as bartenders or waiters...we do like human contact and also robots are a breach of security (they are not your pals, they can be hacked while u are drinking your ass off or whatever) It could work for a while and then they will crash.

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.