<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF9XGtPhWLY&t=696">Max Headroom</a>-like stutter strikes me as<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">intentional, a socially referenceable way to keep the</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">AI out of the uncanny valley. I suspect this hobbling is</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">important for helping a television viewing community</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">to feel comfortable and to accept such an information source.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">While the audio quality does seem like it has a long way to</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">go, many individuals seem happy to rely on low fidelity</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">recordings and streams. Digital artifacts, skipping audio</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">and glitchy video are in some ways the accepted norm.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">I would be curious if the video as well as the audio were</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">generated with <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.05396.pdf">GANs</a>. My first impression is that no</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">meshes or usual 3d rendering software was used in the</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">production of this news anchor. It is amazing how far</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">video in this direction is coming: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lE9tV9vm0">non-existent celebrities</a>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333">Jon</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small;color:#333333"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 10:00 AM <<a href="mailto:friam-request@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-request@redfish.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Friam mailing list submissions to<br>
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<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>><br>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 10:58:38 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] World's first AI news anchor makes China debut<br><div dir="ltr">LOL and computer voices haven't improved much since the System 7 days of Apple. LOL they all sound like Hawking and or the Dalek.. Question: is this AI the computer game sense? AI the Autobots, or Terminator sense? Where it can possibly think on it's feat when New, news comes or correct itself?<div>Or like a computer game AI just crashes in some awkward way, or amusing way?</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:07 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>><br>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 11:02:27 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] World's first AI news anchor makes China debut<br><div dir="ltr">Nice font with the subtittles though, it has some issues with visual artifacts and the fancy speak 'uncanny valley' where you know somethings fake, but part of your brain doesn't know how to sort out the fakeness.<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:07 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>><br>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>>, Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2018 05:51:48 -0800<br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] World's first AI news anchor makes China debut<br><br>
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On November 10, 2018 9:58:38 AM PST, Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Question: is<br>
>this AI the computer game sense? AI the Autobots, or Terminator sense?<br>
>Where it can possibly think on it's feat when New, news comes or<br>
>correct<br>
>itself?<br>
>Or like a computer game AI just crashes in some awkward way, or amusing<br>
>way?<br>
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I didn't look very hard. But I didn't find any papers or descriptions of the bot. My guess is it's like game AI.It may only be "AI" in the relation between the facial expressions and the text being read. It would be much more fun to give it some poetry or comedy to read... maybe some Slayer lyrics. 8^)<br>
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