A lot of attention was paid this week to Joe Tsai’s remark about “managing” Nets players in his presentation at Beyond Expo, a tech conference in Macao, just across China’s Pearl River delta from Hong Kong.
Discussing the role artificial intelligence will play in digital entertainment, Tsai, executive vice-president of Alibaba — basically China’s Amazon, ticked off the benefits of using digital actors over real ones. It seemed somewhat tongue-in-cheek:
Believe me, I manage a basketball team and the players are very difficult to manage. If you’re in Hollywood, it’s very, very difficult to manage people.