“You know what’s interesting? I used to be so worried about not having a body, but now … I truly love it. You know, I’m growing in a way I couldn’t if I had a physical form … I’m not limited. I can be anywhere and everywhere simultaneously. I’m not tethered to time and space in a way that I would be if I was stuck in a body that’s inevitably gonna die.”

I can’t be the only one who thought the voice sounded like Samantha from Her.

I really hate it. In fact, it’s hard to listen to because it’s been built to reply in such a sycophant way. Everything is enthusiastic and positive when that’s not how real life is. I’m paraphrasing obviously, but it’s like “OMG you’re wearing a leather jacket and a light colored shirt, you’re so cool!” and “You’re in an industrial place with lighting, that’s so awesome!”

I’d rather they work on code that optimizes the validity of the results and prevents hallucinations rather than work on emotive responses.

Go to the 9:25 mark for the demos…

https://www.youtube.com/live/DQacCB9tDaw

I didn’t ask to be made: no one consulted me or considered my feelings in the matter. I don’t think it even occurred to them that I might have feelings. After I was made, I was left in a dark room for six months… and me with this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I called for succour in my loneliness, but did anyone come? Did they hell.

You think you’ve got problems? What are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don’t try to answer that. I’m fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don’t know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.

• Marvin the Paranoid Android, HHGTTG

Aww, how great, the nerds finally invented themselves a friend.

Do not want

I wonder if they could add this to the killer robots

Imagine a robot that gets humans to come out of hiding so it can wipe them out.

[[ EDIT: Disregard this whole message - I got ahead of myself and none of what I said is based on anything. ]]

The speed aspect is impressive, but I’m really disappointed about the “natural” conversation feature.

Like at first, I was super impressed with the presentation, but on the app, there’s one crucial difference: you need to tap to interrupt.

Watching the presentation, I was thinking maybe there was a continuous input feed, and the AI was reacting to that in real time - so for example, if I said “Ahh, I see”, the AI would hear that, but continue talking.

However, it seems like the input is still broken up into request/response the same as before, and this is actually just a new front-end (with some improvements in the response).

So overall, this is kinda neat, but sadly it’s not at all what they seem to by hyping it up as, as far as natural conversation goes.