The past few years alone have seen various actors, directors and producers discuss the perceived merits and inferiorities of AI as they pertain to making films and TV shows. Now, one of the latest to weigh in is actor,

While on a panel at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha Summit, Ben Affleck weighed in on the growing use of artificial intelligence by the film industry

Ben Affleck explained how he believes artificial intelligence will impact Hollywood, saying that movies will be "one of the last things" replaced by AI.

Affleck thinks that AI technology could create a new source of revenue for studios, potentially replacing lost DVD sales that he says once provided a large chunk of industry revenue but dropped dramatically over the past decade due to the rise of streaming video services.

Until very recently, the threat of AI seemed to belong to a distant future when something akin to Skynet would become self-aware and we'd all find ourselves in some sort of post-a