Paramount CTO Phil Wiser on how AI is changing screen production

Tuuli Narkle, Todd Lasance, Olivia Swann and Sean Sagar on the set of 'NCIS: Sydney'. (Photo: Daniel Asher Smith/Paramount+)

Paramount’s chief technology officer Phil Wiser says artificial intelligence will transform the media company’s operations, from script assessment to content creation.

“We’ve got teams that are bringing in hundreds, if not thousands, of scripts,” Wiser said at the recent NAB Show session.

“They have to summarise those and then maybe modify those to see what’s interesting. AI is a great application for that to just take th...