In this episode of Shift AI, Neil Mandt, 5-time Emmy Award Winning Producer, shares his experience as a Hollywood producer and director, his take on the implications of AI on our society in the future and how the Studio industry is changing to accomodate this shift.

In this episode of the Shift AI podcast, we cover the following topics:

Introduction to experience and background including with Run DMC and Guiness Book of World Record
Neil's first job that he actually got paid for the work that he did as a teenager making commercials
Neil's parents and upbringing in Detroit and his family influence on work and media and success
Work in the early days of AI, VR and AR and the projects that are firing him up True Crime for AR and AI and Apple Vision Pro and Chat GPT
How AI is changing and transforming the media business in Hollywood and examples of how this will happen
How this will effect the writers guild and TV/film editors as well as reality TV production
Neil's position on the writers stike in Hollywood and how they are going to be affected by AI and why the issue should be punted
The Neil Mandt online courses about how to succeed in Hollywood is discussed
AI and 3D multi-modal conversation is discussed and predictions are made for the future of text to 3D, including haptic gaming
How experiential content will convert to sales and make money using AR and AI
Neil talks about the self generating Seinfeld sitcom that get generated continuously every 30 minutes
Neil talks about how he has mentored others and who has had a big influence on him throughout his career like Mark Shapiro,Steve Borenstein (ESPN)
Future predictions and the emerging technology that Neil is the most excited about in the future, AR Mojo Vision contact lenses, intellectual property rights
The way that spatial experiences will be a huge tool for social media influencers to tag the world in 3D. Website drm.la

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