AI has been built on theft. Pirate everything. Fuck Billionaires!
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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Capitalism is built on theft, AI is just the latest excuse
I think she is right. It is just as it said an impersonation of him. It sounds like him, the jokes are similar to the point like someone took the best known pieces and tried to use them to generate new jokes, but despite that, it still doesn't feel like him.
I think the difference is that George Carlin had some commentary to say how things are fucked up and just used humor, because otherwise it would be very depressing.
It reminds me like Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show and the show being taken by Trevor Noah. Yeah, Trevor wasn't bad, but with him the show just went back to be only comedy and nothing else. Jon actually was doing comedy, but he wanted to improve things.
If anything the George Carlin-imitating AI serves to highlight that the brilliance of Carlin was in his thinking, not in his shtick of delivering cynical jokes in his signature fashion. The AI captures the cynicism and the voice and at least in part the delivery, yet it just left me bored. Carlin on the other hand I can listen to again and again.
I guess it's like training a moral philosophy bot. Sure, you could train an AI on everything Immanuel Kant has ever written and it would be capable of delivering an endless series of platitudes that sound like something Kant could have written, but it's not going to become a Kantian philosopher, and you'll be better off just reading Kant.
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It’s actually a way to generate unlimited energy. That man is spinning in his grave at 6,000 rpm. Do one for Bill Hicks and Sean Locke and we have solved the energy crisis folks.
I had to sit and listen to it before I could form an opinion.
Some of the bits early on, where it just lists five or six things in a row, were pretty rough. Carlin would have done better.
But there is one joke that is subversive enough that I refuse to believe the AI wrote alone:
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That one was pretty good. But yeah, I'm betting the entire video had a lot of human shaping to get it done.
Infinite monkeys...
Do you think we're headed towards a future like the Matrix or more like the Terminator?
hoping for star trek future-- although that means the next 40-50 years will be pretty terrible.
Bell Riots are coming this year. The Second American Civil War starts in 2026, which leads directly into WWIII.
From there, everything is pretty much terrible until warp drive is invented.
it's creepy how specific (and prophetic) the star trek writers were about our future. other than the Eugenics Wars not happening in the 90s, they've been pretty spot-on. let's just hope that they're right about April 5, 2063.
No eugenics wars in the 90s? The Bosnia-Serbian conflict??
The one predicted in Star Trek had to do with genetically engineered Superman, trying to take over the world. So a little bit different than that.
Classic Bosnian-Serbian conflict!!
Well, it would be nice to think there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
How many lights do you see?
FOUR!
Three. I hope that isn't a train.
edit: I think it is a train.
🖖 <-- that light
We'll be lucky to have any kind of future
I think it'll be 90% idiocracy and 10% Capitalist Star Trek
Capitalist Star Trek
Is that a thing? I would like to see that.
Ferengie
Dune. There will be a butlerian jihad against thinking machines.
But at least we get drugs that let us see the future
Welp, there goes autocomplete on my phone.
I must not fear... good advice for the future.
Still hoping for Stargate
Unlike the show, humanity would totally be enslaved by worm heads in like, a day.
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This scenario wasn't in either movie. This is more like something out of Time Gate.
Does that one have a happy ending?
I didn't know. I never finished it. I'm kinda curious now, though.
What's Time Gate?
It's a sci-fi setting where AI is used to "resurrect" famous dead people, and there's a virtual world where all of these famous people can interact. So, you could have a synthetic Socrates debating a synthetic Mark Twain, for example.
I thought it was ridiculous, but it really looks like that's the way we're headed now.
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No machine will ever replace his genius
Wow, way to hurt Robo-George's feelings...
Had trouble making it through even the first couple of minutes.
Sorry, not for me.
But she doesn’t blast it on her speakers because it isn’t funny
I genuinely tried listening to it with an open mind. It was just rehashed content. No new insights with modern day context.
George Carlin's work from decades ago somehow still seems more relevant even now, and the new AI based version doesn't seem capable of holding truth to account.
He was a modern man, a man for the millennium...
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