Eric Bear is a successful inventor and entrepreneur with scores of patents granted to him. He is also an actor, dancer, musician, stunt double, AI user and kinesthetic artist specializing in primate motion capture.
On the most recent episode of Understanding IP Matters (now on video and audio) Bear tells Bruce Berman that while AI is enormously important as a tool, “it will never replace human creativity.”
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One Person, Many Faces
Bear created the award-winning interactive media for The Matrix film that popularized his invention of seamless video expansion to access behind the scenes footage.
Bear’s patented inventions can now be found on most Blu-ray titles and are licensed by all major studios in the USA, including Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Universal Pictures and Sony.
Among his inventions are body-based solutions to motion sickness in virtual reality.
In addition, Bear is also a sought after industry expert in litigated patent disputes and appeared in five episodes of the Yellowstone prequel, 1883.
Says Bear on the podcast:
- “Invention and acting are very similar. There’s a phase shifting from the current reality into another possibility.”
- With invention “there’s a future where this ‘other thing’ is true,” and in acting, “all of the world of possible people are in us. We’re not separate from each other.”
- AI for creative work is “like a gear… When you’re riding a bicycle that only has one gear, the same amount of work always generates the same amount of output. But the moment you can start gearing up …it’s an accelerant.”
- Interestingly, “Steve Jobs used to call computers bicycles for the mind; I feel that way about AI.”
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