A: For next weekend’s Golden Horse Awards ceremony, the Lifetime Achievement Award will go to Chen Shu-fang.
B: Didn’t Chen win both Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actress in 2023? What a talented performer she is.
A: But with the debut of the world’s first AI-generated “actress,” human performers may start to worry about their jobs.
Photo: Reuters 照片：路透
B: The news says the debut of AI-generated “actress” Tilly Norwood in a recent conference attracted studio executives’ interest.
A: With big stars like Robert Redford and Diane Keaton passing away one after another, could human performers gradually be replaced in the future?
A: 下週末登場的金馬獎，終身成就獎將頒給陳淑芳！
B: 她前年不是同時贏得女主角、女配角獎？真是位好演員。
A: 但隨著全球首位人工智慧（AI）生成「女星」亮相，人類演員或許要開始擔心了。
B: 新聞說AI「女星」蒂莉諾伍德近日在一場研討會亮相，引起電影主管的興趣。
A: 在勞勃瑞福、戴安基頓這些大明星紛紛離世後，人類演員會逐漸被取代嗎？
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
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