What is your opinion on the future of film and acting given the trajectory of AI and tech like this? Do you see significant changes to the way movies will be shot, or to the level of involvement of human actors in film?
Not really ? Film acting is a delicate art. And it’s 1000x faster than computer animation. You can film a cheap film in 3 weeks maybe, on a tight schedule. The actors will be able to deliver what you need.
Animating the equivalent film would cost you something between 1-3 years.
So no I don’t see a way that any of this will affect film actors. We already have fully functional digi doubles, they just don’t use NERFs.
Pointing a camera at something / someone interesting is still somewhere around 1000x more efficient than computer animation. I don’t see a near or mid future where this changes.