...yea? Hell and death, rage and hate...One of those disruptions is that it automatically jumps at me like the first option..I hate it.. i dont want to read it.. i want "web search" to be the automatic first option.. i want a toggle for that...but since its not helpfully provided...
Eline Van Der Velden is launching AI Talent studio Xicoia to create, manage and monetize a new generation of hyperreal digital stars.
So now they want to foist AI-generated media stars on us.
Hey, is anyone else here old enough to remember the 2001 movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? It bankrupted its studio, Square Pictures.
The main character of this disaster, Aki Ross (voice by Ming-na Wen), was also going to be a media star. Square Pictures was so convinced that this character was so realistic and appealing and fascinating that people were going to want to see much more of her. They planned to treat her like a virtual actress, going on to star in other games and motion pictures. Square even got her onto the Maxim Hot 100 list that year. They badmouthed other animation and were convinced their movie was going to make all the money and that Aki was going to be a sensation.
Is it really so much of an ask that studios just make good movies instead of burning the rainforests down to test out a bunch of garbage that freaking nobody wants?
No one wanted Aki Ross. No one wants "Tilly Norwood," either.
I am having to peer program with an AI for one of my classes.
How does anyone tolerate this for more than five minutes. Talking to this thing feels like talking to your boss's nephew who got hired on account of nepotism. Saying it has a room temperature IQ is unfair to any room that it's in.
I have made the choice recently to not use slurs for the AI, because it's just not a habit one wants to get into. I can't help thinking about Alan Turing wistfully imagining sending an AI to school, and trying to figure out how to raise it right when it can't even fetch the coal scuttle.
But dammit, this thing makes me want to have a Heated Gamer Moment.
I know there are people who do this professionally and say that it increases their productivity. I know this. And I am genuinely struggling to see how that's even possible, because I cannot get this thing to understand a word I am saying.
