Tom Waits provides the template here. He successfully sued Cheetos for impersonation. The major similarity: Waits, like Johansson, declined an offer to use his voice in advertising.
And so OpenAI can't legally... use any adult white female's voice in their product?
I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't there have to actually be a reasonable voice resemblance to conclude that there's impersonation? In a side-by-side "taste test" I don't think these two voices are very similar.
> And so OpenAI can't legally... use any adult white female's voice in their product?
No, they can't legally use an adult white female's voice that might be mistaken for Johansson's in their product and imply it has anything to do with Johansson's performance in the movie _Her_.
So... Smart tweet there, Sam. Really smart.
(I don't quite get why the Techbro - venture capitalist sphere is so enamored with this guy. From all I've seen reported about him, he seems not only a grade-A arsehole, but dumb as a fucking brick. But maybe they identify with that.)
Heh I came in for the same point but decided to give the author the benefit of the attention-grabbing-headline, so to speak. AI started in earnest in 1950 with the rest of CS IMO, so technically this is “extremely early AI history”, but you can see how they were basically just positing stuff at this point. I mean “we didn’t use the word planet back then” really threw me for a loop.
Also these days “prehistory of AI” means “pre-2010”, according to the LLM industry!
I don't know. It likely goes much further back. The main problem is that there is no commonly accepted definition of "intelligence". So to add the modifier "artificial" (an equally fraught term) is just to muddle the topic.
"Artificial Intelligence" is in the end just a metaphor, one that folds quickly under scrutiny.
Great point! I cite Turing so much that I feel like I have to start it with “Can Machines Think?”, but that’s definitely the more historically valid answer. It certainly is if you ask Dartmouth lol, they have a whole page for it.
On the topic of “incredible women historians of AI”, this article by Grace Solomonoff was posted here a while back and blew my mind. Would highly recommend for anyone interested in the minds that started this whole kerfuffle.
Mostly coincidentally--although there were one or two overlapping participants--Cognitive Science is usually dated to an MIT conference a few months later. (Although I don't think it was called that yet.)
More like Plato. But cybernetics and systems theory seem more apt models, and, most interestingly, they derive as much from anthropology as from math. . . .
I naively opened an account in the US with a local credit union. Took a small loan. Turned out to be a bizarre experience. Before wiring money out of the account, I'd get sent over to a room, where a guy would ask, so, how's everything going? What's this wire for? etc.
ScyllaDB is exceptionally good (and unique) as a company in that they virtually ban marketing for its own sake. I'd point you to their 'vendor agnostic' p99 conference as well. Among the most technically credible technology companies of all time.
