An ad agency I was once associated with ran radio ads in the early 2000s that used a Donald Sutherland sound-alike — and he was really good. Some voice-over guy in Toronto or Vancouver who basically made a living doing this impersonation.
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#Film#Movies#Her: "Now, I do see why Altman likes it so much; besides its treatment of AI as personified emotional pleasure dome, two other things happen that must appeal to the OpenAI CEO: 1. Human-AI relationships are socially normalized almost immediately (this is the most unrealistic thing in the movie, besides its vision of a near-future AI that has good public transit and walkable neighborhoods; in a matter of months everyone seems to find it normal that people are ‘dating’ voices in the earbuds they bought from Best Buy), and 2. the AIs meet a resurrected model of Alan Watts, band together, and quietly transcend, presumably achieving some version of what Altman imagines to be AGI. He professes to worrying that AI will destroy humanity, and has a survival bunker and guns to prove it, so this science fictional depiction of AGIification must be more soothing than the other one.
But the weirdest thing to me is that it’s only after the AIs are gone that the characters can be said to undergo any sort of personal growth; they spend some time looking at the sunset, feel a human connection, and Theo writes that long overdue handwritten apology letter to his ex. It’s hard to see how the AI wasn’t merely holding them back from all this, and why Altman would find this outcome inspiring in the context of running a company that is bent on inundating the world with AI. Maybe he just missed the subtext? It’s become something of a running joke that Altman is bad at understanding movies: he thought Oppenheimer should have been made in a way that inspired kids to become physicists, and that the Social Network was a great positive message for startup founders.
Finally, Altman’s admiration is also a bit puzzling in that the AIs don’t ever really do anything amazing for society, even while they’re here."
[The Atlantic]: OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game
The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It’s happening, and you can’t stop it. By Charlie Warzel
A female computational neuroscience and machine learning expert took to X at the weekend to describe a “dark side” of the startup culture in Silicon Valley.
Sonia Joseph alleged that a culture of sexual coercion has taken hold of San Francisco’s community housing tech scene, with “heavy LSD use” and “sex parties held by mainly male tech and entrepreneurial elites that involve mock-violent role playing with female participants.”
In particular, “early OpenAI employees” were referenced by Joseph, as well as their friends and “adjacent entrepreneurs.” Salon has more.
It’s been a rough week for OpenAI. Ever since the launch of its latest AI language model, GPT-4o, it has been hit by controversy after controversy — perhaps a sign of just how much public visibility the company is starting to get.
@arstechnica runs through a week of bad news, rumors and ridicule for one of AI’s most prominent and influential companies.
Movie star Scarlett Johansson said Monday she was "shocked" by an OpenAI synthetic voice that sounds like her, which was released after she declined to work with the ChatGPT-maker on such a project. The artificial intelligence powerhouse headed by Sam Altman said it was working on temporarily muting the Johannson-sounding voice it calls "Sky." Monte Francis reports. #OpenAI#AI#Hollywood
@heiglandreas Serious question: What do you intend to use as a replacement? I would love to find something else that has the look, feel, and features of #iTerm but that is cross-platform.
My prediction is that some people (the AI haters, of which there seem to be a quite a few on the Fediverse) are going to have a hissy fit about this, go try some other terminal program, and realize that nothing else comes close to #iTerm2 in features and functionality. And then they will quietly go back to using it (even if that means restoring a previous version from their Time Machine backup).
My understanding is that the #AI doesn't work unless you enter an #OpenAI key, so I don't see the problem. The feature is there for people who want it (and I guarantee you a lot of people do, even despite the fact that AI still hallucinates code that simply won't work) and unless I am missing something, those that don't want it only need to refrain from adding a key. By default it is not enabled, or am I totally missing something here?
For those that really are determined to find a replacement, and who consider tabs and profiles to be important features, I will suggest #Tabby - it is the closest I have found to a useable terminal program (for me, maybe not for someone else), but it's still no iTerm.