It was close to 40 degrees inside the tent, and the heatwave outside was the worst France had experienced in years. Animators, producers and the executives who finance and sell their films had crowded in anyway, to talk about the thing reshaping their industry faster than anything in a generation: artificial intelligence.
Every June, this lakeside town of Annecy in the French Alps is the focus of the animation world. This year, the record temperatures were not the only thing people came away talking about. AI was everywhere, and almost nowhere on the record.
