BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Battlestar Galactica” star Tricia Helfer feels the present was a prescient warning about synthetic intelligence when it debuted greater than 20 years in the past.
“We did warn against AI while we were shooting it,” Helfer instructed Fox Information Digital on the Beverly Hills Movie Pageant this week.
She continued, “It was 20 years ago, and I’ve recently re-watched it and went, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s even more relevant now.’ So I think we just really need to be careful. It’s a slippery slope between using it to our advantage and having it maybe be able to control us a little bit.”
“I think we’re a little bit far off from the humanoid Cylons yet and humanoid robots, but I don’t know, they’re coming,” Helfer added.
“Battlestar Galactica” star Tricia Helfer warns AI could be a “slippery slope” for humanity. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Photographs)
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“Battlestar Galactica” debuted on the SyFy channel in 2004, reimagined from the 1978 unique collection, and follows the battle between people and Cylons, the humanoid sentient robots people created that turned on them and launched a nuclear assault that just about worn out the whole lot of humanity.
Helfer performed a Cylon within the collection, named Quantity Six, who performed a key position within the story as each antagonist and ally.
Helfer performed Quantity Six for 4 seasons of “Battlestar Galactica.” (Justin Stephens/Syfy/NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photographs)
Concerning AI, the Canadian-born actress stated, “It’s not going away, so I think it’s something that we’re going to have to embrace. But I think one of the things ‘Battlestar Galactica’ did was warn about it. And that’s, I think, something that we need to make sure [is] that we have is regulations and an understanding of how quickly and how overwhelming this technology could become.”
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A “Battlestar Galactica” reboot was within the works at Peacock with Sam Esmail, the showrunner behind “Mr. Robot,” however it has since been halted and shopped elsewhere, per Selection.
“Battlestar Galactica” ran from 2004 to 2009 on the SyFy channel, incomes vital acclaim. (Artwork Streiber/Syfy/NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photographs)
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In 2023, Esmail spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about how the brand new model’s view of AI can be evolving from the unique.
“The world is changing way too fast for us. I mean, when we started working on it, I obviously was aware of AI, but now, four or five years later, it’s in the public consciousness and now that’s so influential in how we’re going to tell the story,” Esmail instructed the outlet. “The allegory piece is something that is crystallized in a different way, too. The focus is the same, which is the fear of tech and how it might take over, but this idea of just ‘the robots are going to be our overlords’ is a very facile and overly simplistic way of looking at it. Now that the audience is more sophisticated about the consequences, I think we have to match that with ‘Battlestar.’”
“It’s a slippery slope between using it to our advantage and having it maybe be able to control us a little bit.”
Whereas Helfer believes humanoid robots are nonetheless within the considerably distant future, there are some makes an attempt to create them within the current day.
Suzanne Somers’ widower, Alan Hamel, not too long ago labored with an AI firm referred to as Hollo to create a “twin” of his late spouse.
Suzanne Somers’ widower, Alan Hamel, labored with an AI firm to create a “twin” of his late spouse. (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan)
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“I am working with Hollo, an AI company to create Suzanne AI. It’s very exciting to think about being able to interact with Suzanne’s twin,” Hamel instructed Fox Information Digital in an announcement final month.
The robotic duplicate of Somers educated on her movie and TV appearances, in addition to her books, to deliver again the “essence” of the “Three’s Company” star, in line with Hollo.AI CEO Rex Wong.
When it got here to the Suzanne AI, Wong stated, “The robot, which we did in collaboration with Realbotix, is the first of many AI versions of Suzanne, but AI Suzanne can also be accessible via call, chat and text. AI Suzanne highlights how we can extend a person’s legacy and bring it to the next generation, and one of the services we will be rolling out will be the ability to preserve one’s legacy for future generations or bring back a loved one.”
Hamel with the Suzanne Somers AI bot (Courtesy of Hollo.Ai)
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Somers died in 2023 after an extended battle with breast most cancers.
Hamel instructed the New York Put up that the concept for the Somers AI-powered bot “absolutely did come from her” and that “She may have known her life was going to be shortened [after a lifelong battle with cancer].”
