A.I. And The Future

 So, this isn't really capable of happening now but I do believe the seeds are planted. Imagine a time with the right device, probably even as powerful as the iPhone of 2026 you can pull up an AI app and tell it to create three custom episodes for the evening's entertainment. 

Say you want three X-Files episodes. You want them to be with the third season look and feel. You want a two-part episode and one mythology episode. You'd like a couple of jokes, a snide remark, and Gillian Anderson to be prime Scully with a love scene. Maybe a brand new late-night genuine Columbo mystery while going to bed. 

The AI has it done in a few minutes and is ready by the time the popcorn is finished. 

The next night you want three episodes from the Star Trek universe advancing the storyline past the Deep Space Nine timeline. You want a new Enterprise from the next century. You want it to go into the fourth season of a series you had going last year. 

AI could be a very good thing. It could also be a very bad thing. I mean what happens when an industry like the Hollywood factory is suddenly irrelevant? Not just the actors but the writers, the directors, the editors. All the way to the guy that sweeps up the floors. Gone. 

The music industry is gone. 

YouTube itself could be a platform for this very thing. 

The Intellectual Property industry would explode. 

The sports industry could be iffy though. If you could have a custom league made and compete with other people in the AI league. Other people like me and you. We all get together and have a baseball/basketball/football/hockey/NASCAR team franchise each with agreed-upon parameters and watch live as other teams in our custom AI league compete on a nightly basis. Maybe you have an MMA league and the amount of exercise you do during the day is directly related to the evening's results. 

All are available to the power of AI.

The downside?

A lot of people are out of work. A lot of people will need a way to make a living. 

Right now AI can do a pizza commercial now that's funny but close to the feel of a commercial. A real pizza commercial from the 1980s. With the rate it is advancing now, I think the three to five-year range is believable. 

What then? What will society look like? This technology is going to be the best and worst thing to happen.