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The technology behind the visual effects used in movies and television is rapidly changing.

And what that tech adds to the media we love has long been a reason why people are drawn to work in Hollywood.

I grew up in the shadow of George Lucas's empire.

People like John Dukowski.

He grew up across the bay from San Francisco, right in the backyard of Lucas's

legendary effects company, Industrial Light and Magic, which makes visual effects for movies

and TV shows from Star Wars to Star Trek.

Every so often as a kid, we'd sneak into the back lot and watch them blow up the Starship Enterprise

on the high-speed cameras. I never really got a chance to get away from it, honestly.

Dudkowski now works as an editor, director, and producer on TV shows like Star Trek Discovery,

the remake of The Man Who Fell to Earth, and The Umbrella Academy.

And in a twist that could be out of one of those science fiction shows, the latest transformation

the visual effects industry is facing is artificial intelligence.

With machine learning, you can actually just say, I want a shot of a monster walking

down the street, breaking down buildings.

And it can produce a shot that looks like a monster walking down the street, breaking

to buildings. If you just need that raw concept, it's shockingly powerful.

But if your monster needs to be Godzilla specifically, and it needs to be Godzilla in this

shot and the next shot, and the next shot.

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