When he served as the the vice president of DreamWorks Animation, Andrew Pearce was a driving force behind many of this century’s most-beloved films.
This week, Pearce returns to his Alma mater, the University of Calgary, to serve as a distinguished graduate speaker at spring convocation.
He credits his well-rounded education, including extracurricular activities like performing at Calgary’s Loose Moose Theatre, music and volunteering at UCalgary’s Gauntlet newspaper for shaping a diverse skillset. "I was in economics by default, because my father wanted me to get that degree and go into law afterwards. I really did not like economics, I did not like the statistical aspect of it. Then, I passed this thing in the hallway. It was a very early computer graphic. It was like a sphere with a cylinder coming out the bottom. The sphere was green, the cylinder was brown. It was supposed to be a tree.
"You know, my job was probably 95 per cent like anybody else's job. You're in an office, you're working budgets, you're managing people, you're trying to get deadlines met. Everybody's familiar with that kind of thing. Then, there's that little bit where you're in the theater and your name goes by.
"You know, just like we're seeing animations now that are quite passable, even not even animations, but like real-looking people moving. It's just going to get better and better as these algorithms get better and better, and the processing becomes higher. It's a real danger, and if we're not vigilant – I know this is going off into an area that I'm not an expert in – but AI and its training sets, we really need to consider how we're training these things.
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