11/14/2023 0 Comments Facebook ai full transcriptHere is a CNET article that explains all the nerd things in fairly simple terms: Nerd Article. But aside from rage-typing “connect me to person! speak to human!” whenever I encounter an automated chat, I had continued my life blissfully unconcerned with the advent of ChatGPT, a generator of human-like text from OpenAI.* However, when my friend Beth sent me a link to the transcript of a two-hour conversation between New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose and Sydney, Bing’s new AI chatbot, it was immediately, in the words of Roose, “bewildering and enthralling.” Or, as Beth and I put it, WT mothereffing F? Here is the full transcript in all of its dark glory: Kevin and Sydney. Obviously, I have heard of and consume occasionally intriguing science fiction, ranging from literary ( Klara and the Sun) to cinematic (in H er, a man falls in love with a virtual assistant voiced by Scarlet Johansson, which, well, understandable), to varying degrees of “people fuck with robots, robots get revenge” (see 2001: A Space Odyssey, Westworld, Ex Machina, M3GAN). Sometimes I think briefly about buying a bra and a minute later, I am bombarded with annoying bra ads on Instagram. My smart phone, like my brain, is not living up to its potential but spends its days inadvertently leaving on the flashlight. I don’t have a Roomba, a Ring doorbell, or Alexa. I speak rudely to automated answering services. My first real computer permanently deleted an (obviously in hindsight) uniquely brilliant story I couldn’t resist revising one drunken night, and I have never forgotten or forgiven. I used a typewriter in college until I bought a video writer. It’s all sorcery! I prefer to think about witches and not how data is stored in a cloud or how our techbro overlords will one day destroy us. You know what doesn’t fascinate me? Robots.
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