Remember that time in your life when being forced to consume broccoli felt like a death sentence? Your parents would tell you that it was good for you, that it would make you stronger and healthier, but the scent, texture, and taste told a different story. Eventually, you grow up and come to find that your parents were in fact just trying to do right by you, that broccoli can provide some value to your diet, and maybe you can even come to enjoy it once you look past some of its less appealing features.
This, essentially, was the message on display at the Television Academy‘s second annual AI Summit, hosted Saturday, March 15 at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood. Academy members represented the children in this analogy, AI entrepreneurs, technicians, and legal experts were the parents, and the tech itself was the broccoli gently being airplaned into our mouths. The only problem was that as much as they worked to convince the audience that consuming AI now would be better for us in the long run, it was hard to walk away with anything but the taste of battery acid burning our tongues.
