TV director James Hawes reckons it will take three to five years to create episodes of BBC soaps by generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Hawes was asked by the UK's Culture, Media and Sport Committee's inquiry into British film and high-end TV about how technology will effect his industry on Wednesday.
The vice-chairman of Directors UK told British MPs about a forum held after the announcement that Doctors would be cancelled later this year by the BBC.
He said: "One of them members there started talking about AI and it sent me investigating into how long it would be before a show like Doctors can be made entirely by generative AI and I took a poll with various VFX people…. I then spoke to some of the legal team who advised Sag(-Aftra) and (the) Writers Guild (of America) over the summer ahead of coming here.
"And the best guess is between three to five years, somebody (will) be able to say 'create a scene in an ER room where a doctor comes in, he’s having an affair with a woman so they’re flirting, and somebody’s dying on the table’ and it will start to create it and you will build those and it will be generative AI."
Source: Press Association
