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The road to the Mac Pro (early 2037) has begun
🕑 Added 2024-10-23 04:29:36 +0000 UTCIn the early days of the Macintosh video series, I thought it would be great to find someone to voice my videos instead of my own unprofessional voice. Today, I wouldn't think of doing that because using one's own voice adds uniqueness and character to the video when it's harder than ever to stand-out. But if I have to tell someone, "Sorry, I'm not VWestlife" one more time, I'll... anyway...
There's been a lot of advertizing for AI voice lately. Either with realistic text-to-voice, voice cloning (have Steve Jobs narrate the video, for example) or voice alteration (like British accent or opposite gender). As technically impressive as that is compared to "Junior" of the early 90's, I don't think anyone who wants to sustain an audience would be able to do that. I've said before that I don't put my face on camera because I'm not the focus of the video. However, most successful creators have to take that step to widen their audience, as it helps the audience connect with the channel seeing that there is a real person behind it.
With YouTube, comments from viewers can be answered with more and more sophisticated AI-generated responses with a click of the mouse. Where it used to be simple responses like "I will!" or "Thanks", now I'm offered full sentences reverse-engineered from their comment.
Choices, choices! Except there were no other camcorders on the tour and it was not amazing what people were able to film back then. I actually liked the stability that my shoulder-mount camcorder gave the footage and was disappointed when they shrank to handheld.
I've never used a generated response, by the way. I know how I would feel if I took the time to leave a comment on a video that I enjoyed only to get back an AI-generated response. It would be meaningless, in the same way AI-generated voice would feel hollow.
I show HAL9000 how it's done!
Too bad they offer no AI-generated response for this comment on the 4400 video, but it might go something like this:
AI-response: "Sorry that the side humor is jarring and wrecks the flow. It's amazing how people document the computers these days."
65scribe response: "You spelled 'humour' wrong"
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Ha! Well said! Thanks for the vindication, Gabe.
Gabe W
As a fellow New Jersey dude, VWestlife and I both sound like we’ve never stepped foot in a Canadian Tire at any point in our lives!!! I would hope most folks could tell NJ and Canadian accents apart… I guess we’re all the same to the AI Overlords—hence it spelling humor correctly 🤣
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Great point, Chris. Obviously, this questionable push to thin client continues to the Mac Pro 2037. Though the nano nuclear fusion PSU will give great environmental display and holography options, giving that much power to the AI's actuality will be a huge liability, I agree.
Parcimoneus
"meaningless" and "hollow" indeed. Thank you for verbalising this. It's "just because we can does not mean we should"
65scribe
Lol. Great call-back!
Dante Blando
hey... wait... I think he used the chintzy reply. Uncanny Valley... If they want us to pay for a service that makes creativity obsolete, then I'll just let Amway and Herbalife dealers laugh themselves silly.
Chris Nielsen
Not to mention the energy inefficiency of continuing down this route for feature sets. Before features could be implemented in code, now we need to just provide a ton of juice and a ton of computational real estate for those language models to run in farms and on device. With almost no focus given to efficiency, the Mac Pro 2037 is bound to be power hungry, and more of an expense/liability than an appliance.
zxcvbmn
Side humor?! For me, at least, the humor is the main appeal -- documenting the computers is just a bonus
65scribe
Lol. Great call-back!
Corbin Johnson
It's all "free" now (privacy concerns aside) but what are they going to eventually charge for these services? $10 a minute?!?
