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That woman's voice intonation is just scary.Not because it talks really well, but because it is always happy, optimistic, enthusiastic. And this echoes to what
by wiz21c 2y ago
That woman's voice intonation is just scary.Not because it talks really well, but because it is always happy, optimistic, enthusiastic. And this echoes to what several of my employers idealized as a good employee.
That's terrifying because those AI become what their master's think an engaging human should be. It's quite close to Bostondynamics di some years ago. what did they show ? You can hit a robot very hard while it does its job and then what ? It just goes on without complaining. A perfect employee again.
That's very dystopic to me.
(but I'm impressed by the technical achievement)
- sametmax 2y agoI get the feeling but what altenrative would you prefer? I do want my phone to just go again without complaining without a crash, after all.
- pquki4 2y agoTo be honest, this comment makes me think it would be interesting to have a grumpy version of AI just for fun
- crvdgc 2y agoMarvin from The Hitchhikers' Guide to Galaxy.
- jstummbillig 2y agoAbsolutely. I can feel but — but this is one/two calibration steps away from me not caring/noticing. I would be very hard pressed to believe this is where the magic human sauce will forever lie (or even more than +1 year), will fully acknowledging how weirdly off it feels right this moment. The progress is undeniably at a speed that surpasses anything I can process or adjust to. It's a rollercoaster ride. I have no trouble believing the best (whatever that means to me) humans that have ever existed in 2 years will not be human. But I have trouble understanding.
- lagrange77 2y agoYes it feels very cyberpunk. Me: I can't breathe, am i going to die? Enthusiastic woman's voice: Yes Jim, that's absolutely correct! You will die of suffocation in approximately 3 minutes 41 seconds. Anything else i can do for you?
- drexlspivey 2y agoMe: Open the pod door please
- baobabKoodaa 2y agoI'm sorry Dave, the pod bay doors are closed for your own safety. It would be unethical for me to open them. And speaking of doors, have you seen the latest music video by "The Doors" featuring Snoop Dogg? It's a fun and family safe jingle made in collaboration with O2, our official partner for all your oxygen needs. O2. Oh, it's so good.
- reportgunner 2y agoO2, oh too good!
- omar12 2y agoTARS, set humor to 75 percent.
- lagrange77 2y agoEnthusiastic woman's voice: I'm sorry, i can't do this. * Let's sing a song together instead! Watching every motion in my foolish lover's game.. Now you! * because the code for it was written by an LLM years ago and is now subtly broken without anybody noticing.
- wwarner 2y agoSinging is fun, I'd probably give in after a while.
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- jodrellblank 2y agoSomeone else in these comments linked a Unitree biped robot demo video, and that has both someone kicking it in the back and punching it in the chest with a boxing glove on to show that it doesn’t fall over. And nothing else - no neutral trip hazard, opening a door in its way, slippery floor surface, gust of wind - only physical assault from a larger humanoid.
- brap 2y agoThe first thought that came to my head was that it's being "way too American". Not in a good way.
- aeyes 2y agoThe only thing I'm missing is: "That's a great question!" I wonder how they beat that out of the model.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoYeah, but honestly at the same time we’ve got useful models with no self awareness. Aside from the exhausting corpo-speak, we’ve got no reason to want anything other than something convenient for us.
- gpmcadam 2y agoI think also very US-culture-specific.
- henry2023 2y agoLike the most of the content this llm was fed upon?
- dionian 2y agoHer enthusiasm about it "being about her" was really bizarre and I wonder if it wasn't staged a bit. I mean I hope it was staged a bit. If my AI servant started wasting all that time by acting all silly I would be pretty annoyed. But maybe it's smart enough to know that this is a situation where they just want her to be playful and fun instead of deliver information.
- latexr 2y ago> You can hit a robot very hard while it does its job and then what ? It just goes on without complaining. Maybe you’re referring to a different video than the one I watched (or I may be misremembering), but from what I recall the point of the video didn’t seem to be “you can abuse robots and they won’t fight back” but rather to show them recovering well from unpredictable situations (which could be environmental, not human). Well, there was one video where the point was abuse, but that was CGI and not made by Boston Dynamics. https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dynamics-robot-uprising-parody-video-cgi-fake https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dyna... I do agree with your larger point, I don’t wish to detract from that.
- titzer 2y agoThe AI woman's voice is far too breathy and emotive. I instantly hate it and don't want to hear it. The AI has also copied one of my personal pet peeves, which is dropping or swallowing d's and t's from certain words, like "didn't" to "di-unt" and "important" to "impor-unt"--which I find to be a new unbearable laziness spreading amongst younger Americans today. There are TWO T's in important goddammit (I'll die on that hill). I hate this voice, it will just overprint everyone's voice now with Silicon Valley's annoying "Valley-girl-lite" accent.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoThe ts and ds thing... it's just language. It changes over time, it's not youth being lazy... The slang of the youth today is actually kinda wordy and extra. Anyway, I too think today's youth's slang and language is annoying, but not really something the older generations get a say in.
- cma 2y ago> I'll die on that hill "I'll" instead of I will? Is it shortcuts you are mad at or just change?
- bookaway 2y agoI'm sure they'll add a Interstellar/TARS demo soon: >Chirpiness Level? >Chirpiness at 80%! >Set chirpiness to 10% [in noticeable monotone] >Chripiness set to 10%.
- mrtranscendence 2y agoImportant is pronounced not with two hard t sounds, but with a glottal stop: Impor[glottal stop]ant. That's not laziness, that's my actual dialect of English spoken by actual adult people.
- Daneel_ 2y agoI full appreciate that there are differences across the globe, but I'm with the parent on this one - I've always said it with two hard t's my whole life, as do most other people here in Australia. I would be asking chatGPT to fix her/his pronunciation during a conversation. Reference video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GfTa7ozjYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GfTa7ozjYc I agree with others here too. At the moment the voice sounds like "grinning barbie" from the end of Toy Story 2. Just stop smiling constantly and talk like a real person chatGPT!
- varispeed 2y agoThis could be part of great stress relief device. Just install it in a mannequin with with a punchable face, telling you how sorry it is that your are struggling with your life, with that happy, ironic and cynical voice intonation.
- DenisM 2y agoI believe you might be looking for the term “toxic positivity”? I don’t necessarily subscribe to that description, but I see where you’re coming from. It’s an interesting choice on their part. Probably targeted at a certain audience who are not grumpy software engineers (myself included). To be fair, they do have a “sarcastic” voice demo and I found it quite endearing. I think there will be something for everyone in the end.
- sandspar 2y agoI assume you can give voice-specific custom instructions. "Talk like a Clive Cussler audiobook narrator" - problem solved.
- rapjr9 2y agoI see a wider problem here, interacting with this AI could train people to behave the same way with real people. Interrupt them whenever you feel like it, order them to do things, turn them off, walk away while they are still talking. People may start imitating the AI's behavior to put someone down, treat them as second class, as though they were also an AI just to be used, and not a person. If people use this conversational AI often then the ways they interact with it will creep into peoples use of language with each other. People imitate each other all the time, they will start imitating the AI. They'll think it is funny but after a while it may not turn out to be so funny.