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Nothing? If you're acting like the sea witch in "The Little Mermaid" you're probably doing something wrong.
Key difference here is that Scarlett still has her voice.
Ah, violating copyright is not a crime, I see.
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Altman has proven time and again that he is little more than a huckster wrt technology, and in business he is a stone cold shark. Conman plain and simple.
I'm glad more people are thinking this. It's amazing that he got his way back into OpenAI somehow. I said as much that he shouldn't go back to OpenAI and got downvotes universally both here and on reddit.
Altman's biggest accomplishment is being out of the way. Great work is done despite management, not because of it. It's the ability to hire the right people and get out of their hair. Altman himself has no talents, he is not technical. He is just well-connected in the Valley. But, at least Altman is not the wrecking ball like Elon Musk is, and that's really his only job - to not micromanage.
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#983I always figured it was Bari Weiss. Still do. She released an interview with Altman in May of 2023 and Sky was released in September 2023 as far as I know.
Given that connection, I think it's plausible. They have a similar voice and given Bari's experience in podcasting could be a sensible choice if OpenAI wanted Scarlett but couldn't make it happen.
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if this account is true, Sam Altman is a deeply unethical human being. Given that he doesn't bring any technical know how to building of AGI, I just don't see the reason to have such a person in charge here. The new board should act.
I thought we had already established this when the previous board tried to oust him for failing to stick to OpenAI’s charter. This is just further confirmation. > The new board should act You mean like the last board tried? Besides the board was picked to be on Altman’s side. The independent members were forced out.
And almost every thread on HN had its top-voted comments defending and praising Altman, while shrugging off Ilya et al. It was bizarre and disheartening to see that from this community, of all places.
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Altman wants to be a part of AI regulation in the same way Bankman Fried wanted to be a part of cryptocurrency regulation.
(AI)tman tries to be, (Bank)man fried to be, who is letting Kojima name all these villians?
You had me thinking we were in some type of simulation for a second.
Bernie Madoff is another funny name we should throw in there.
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Altman wants to be a part of AI regulation in the same way Bankman Fried wanted to be a part of cryptocurrency regulation.
Whats really interesting about our timeline is when you look at the history of market capture in Big Oil, Telco, Pharma, Real Estate, Banks, Tobacco etc all the lobbying, bribing, competition killing used to be done behind the scenes within elite circles. The public hardly heard from or saw the mgmt of these firm in media until shit hit the fan. Today it feels like managment is in the media every 3 hours trying to ca…
This happened once the US broadcasters were no longer required to treat news as a civic responsibility.
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What is so special about her voice? They could’ve found a college student with a sweet voice and offered to pay her tuition in exchange for using her voice, no? Or a voice actor? Why be cartoonishly stupid and cartoonishly arsehole and steal a celebrity’s voice? Did he think Scarlett won’t find out? Or object? I don’t understand these rich people. Is it their hobby to be a dick to as many people as they can, for no r…
Scarlett voiced Samantha, an AI in the movie "Her" Considering the movie's 11 years old, it's surprisingly on-point with depictions of AI/human interactions, relations, and societal acceptance. It does get a bit speculative and imaginative at the end though... But I imagine that movie did/does spark the imagination of many people, and I guess Sam just couldn't let it go.
Also, I understand that sama considers "Her" his favorite movie. Perhaps, for him, it just had to be ScarJo's voice.
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#988Well, that statement lays out a damning timeline: - OpenAI approached Scarlett last fall, and she refused. - Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.) - Not receiving a response, OpenAI demos the product anyway, with Sam tweeting “her” in reference to Scarle…
To each their own. I personally didn't get Scarlett Johansson vibes from the voice on the GPT-4o demo ( https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ ) even though I'm a huge fan of hers (loved Her, loved Jojo Rabbit, even loved Lucy, and many many others) and have watched those and others multiple times. I'd even say I have a bit of a celebrity crush. To me it's about as close to her voice as saying "It's a woman's voice".…
200%. I listened to both, and don't think it was "her" enough.
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Emotional intelligence /true empathy cannot be learned or acquired, at least IMHO. But it can be learned to be mimicked almost to perfection, either by endless trial & error or by highly intelligent motivated people. It usually breaks apart when completely new intense / stressful situation happens. Sociopaths belong here very firmly and form majority. If you know what to look for, you will see it in most if not all p…
In the case of Peterson, I'd say it takes one to know one.
Yeah I mentioned him only because he is source for this info for me, and I have big respect for his original work and there is good wisdom for me there.
Absolutely 0 respect for after-breakdown-and-addiction period, he is simply a different person, not interesting to me anymore, with political agenda and weird obsessions.