I was like that with some of the Marvel properties. Fortunately I had my son Cliff to provide me with pertinent notes before we watched a thing.

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Money buys power. Money buys control. Money buys countries.

Yeah. If it looks like a spy, and quacks like a spy, it's not a spy.

"Nobody would be interested in some generic spy movie that is James Bond in name only. Or would they?"

Unfortunately I expect that a lot of people would prefer that over something that might make them think too much.

Heh. Scanned that as "James Bond robot" and thought, "That'll tie it in with the GP's comment".

That's some Deep Thought there.

XKCD did a comic once where he charted sightings vs the growth of phonecams being carried by millions of people. We should be flooded with evidence by now.

Apropos, today's MOTD is "The Computer made me do it."

I listened to one last night. It started with a man sitting behind a mic. A gorgeous man, long flowing mane--think vikingish. He looked into the screen and said something like "We have Humans reading Human stories here!", then launched into the story. Great reading voice, deep with good diction. The story was standard pulp fiction, though.

I didn't catch any AI tells until halfway through, when he came upon the word "patterns", only he said "pattrens". It was surprising to me for a self-described "expert narrator" to make a mistake like that. But I know that shit happens, so I just put up a yellow flag and continued. Later on in the story "patterns" came up again. Again, he says "pattrens"--the same way, the same inflection. Red flag. No thumb for you!

I listened to the last few minutes to see if I could find any other tells. No joy. I reflected: When the story started I appreciated the "human interface", but also considered that AI can generate video as well as sound, and the beginning "human" was less than 30" long, so wasn't sold on it. After half the story I was starting to think that the narrator was legit, so it was doing a decent job. I was also thinking "this story is shit" and tiresome.

I did detect the AI pattrens in this, but it's getting harder.

For TrueAI(tm), it must fail to spot the climax and just keep ramblin' along.

That makes sense. What doesn't make sense to me is that I feel that it has gotten worse. I remember thinking that a few years ago that live transliteration seemed to be getting pretty good. I remember testing out early Dragon speech-to-text software and not being impressed, so maybe I had set my expectations so low that that even muddling translations were a real improvement, and I misremember how well it was really doing.

Murph D'Egg is such a boss.

Yeah, could be, could be. They looked at an environment where Fox was knocking it out of the park, and The Supremes determinated that news is entertainment, and doesn't have to be factual. As humans tend to do, they either look for a counter, or decide to adapt to the new environment.

Thanks for the link. I read the discussion here back when the Go decision was made, but did not see Manley's vid at the time.