Elon Musk’s Grok AI Odyssey: Can AI Replace Actors?

Elon Musk was so offended by Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey that he vowed to make a much better version using his Grok AI app, before the end of the year.

The world held its breath. Months passed and, apart from a trailer, nothing much appeared.

Then last week he finally put out a seven-minute episode, with more to follow.

Interesting how a two or three-hour feature film quietly became seven-minute episodes. I suspect he’s discovered there’s a lot more to this filmmaking malarkey than meets the eye.

I’ve watched it, and I can safely tell you no filmmaker or actor is losing their job to AI any time soon.

It is a complete Grok of Sh*t.

There’s a scene where Odysseus says goodbye to his wife, perhaps for the last time, and his face has all the emotion of someone waiting for a bus.

The acting throughout is lifeless and soulless. Mind you, Tom Holland is in Nolan’s version, so when it comes to zero inner life, the Grok actors might at least give him a run for his money.

It did give me pause for thought about certain actors, though, the ones who say, “My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?”

They should be worried, because if all you’re doing is pretending, with no real emotion and no life experience going into the work, you’re not much better than a Grok actor. And Grok works for free.

As you know method acting is the complete opposite. The method actor actually lives through it, with real thoughts, real impulses and real feelings happening in the moment as if for the first time, and when it’s done properly you can’t take your eyes off them. A machine can’t do that, because it’s never lived a day in its life.