Will AI dream up the hit TV shows of the future?

Key Facts

• That may initially sound like a highly fanciful idea, but a number of TV production companies have already announced that they are using AI to help them dream up new programmes.
• Image caption, The AI suggested a TV show where people had to learn a new skill such a painting But what do TV industry experts think about the use of AI in coming up with future content?
• "The idea of a machine that you can type a request into, in normal conversational language, and have it spit out something close to what you asked for, still feels pretty magical," he says.
• The big problem for most production companies is the uncertainty - which ideas are best, which ones are worth investing in?" Mr Whitehead argues that AI can give people false confidence, giving them the sense that if it - with access to billions of data points - can come up with these ideas, they must somehow be better.

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