Sharon Stone: AI is never going to be the Rolling Stones

Movie star Sharon Stone has revealed where she stands on AI.

Sharon Stone has likened AI to “a cover band”.

The 68-year-old actress insists that there are limits to what the technology can achieve in the movie business.

The Hollywood star told Variety: “I’m not a person who uses that stuff.

“I am a person who has the 20-volume annotated dictionaries. I love researching on the internet, but to me, AI’s a cover band. That’s all it’s got.

“It’s never going to be the Rolling Stones; it’s always going to be somebody singing the Rolling Stones. It’s never going to be me doing a performance; it’s going to be somebody faking me doing a performance.”

Sharon observed that AI cannot create anything truly unique or original.

The Basic Instinct star said: “You’re never going to get my crazy idea of the day, which is always going to be better, because it’s going to be — guess what? — new. That’s what makes me interesting. I have new ideas.

“It’s great in many ways. The things that gather information and stack it up. It’s the tech encyclopedia. I’m all for that. But to imagine that it’s going to run ahead of us … We want to see ourselves. We don’t want to see a robot being us. It’s ew.”

Sharon believes too many people are using AI without really considering the long-term consequences.

She said: “There’s not a logic puzzle to the behaviour.

“But they are trying to blaze the new frontier. You got a little fire in your pants and that’s exciting, but at the same time, you don’t need to blaze through and destroy everything that came before, because there’s lots and lots and lots of good, beautiful, important, impactful, educational, interesting and ultimately deeper, more educational things, culturally, historically and sociopolitically, that we are all going to need from each other. Not from a box.”

Meanwhile, Sharon previously claimed that she was frozen out of the movie business after she suffered a stroke in 2001.

The actress needed to take several years off work as she recovered from her stroke, and she claimed that it had a hugely detrimental impact on her career.

Speaking to the New York Post newspaper’s PageSix column, Sharon said: “I recovered for seven years, and I haven’t had jobs since. When it first happened, I didn’t want to tell anybody because you know if something goes wrong with you, you’re out.

“Something went wrong with me – I’ve been out for 20 years. I haven’t had jobs. I was a very big movie star at one point in my life.”