Seinfeld actress uses AI to write acceptance speech, things did not go as planned
Julia Louis-Dreyfus was an honoree at the Wall Street Journal Magazine’s 2023 Innovator Awards. Being busy for the innovative efforts that she was being credited for, she turned to AI to write her acceptance speech. Chat GPT-4 drummed up a speech that described her as an investor. Chat GPT-4 credited her family and her team as contributing to her investment strategies, and also described her roles in movies that Julia Roberts played in.
From Fox News:
According to the 56-year-old star, the program gave her “exactly” the following speech.
“Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed guests, and fellow investors, today is a moment of profound gratitude and reflection for me as I accept the great honor of being recognized as the investor of the year by Wall Street Journal,” she said to laughter.
Louis-Dreyfus continued, “Reflecting on this milestone, I am reminded of the unwavering support of my family and the unyielding dedication of my team that has been the driving force behind my investment strategies and my performances in ‘Erin Brokovich,’ ‘Pretty Women’ and ‘Mystic Pizza.'”
The audience laughed at the program’s apparent confusion of Louis-Dreyfus with Julia Roberts, as well as the frequent mix-ups between “innovator” and “investor.”
Commentors on TikTok joked that the mistake would have been an “amazing ‘Veep’ moment,” and others wondered what she put in the prompt that could have caused the confusion.
One person noted, “This is a brilliant way to show how writers and actors cannot be replaced by AI.”
Fox News has additional information here.
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AI is just another program that writes what’s in its memory banks. It has bias of the programmer, and will only write what the algorithms produce. She wanted it write something awful, so mission accomplished.
I have been playing around with ChatGPT, and it is much more than that. It is self-programmable to mimic your writing style and favor your sentence composition.
But you are absolutely right that it has big lefty bias built into it. I was getting frustrated with a paragraph because of the eloquent vocabulary that ChatGPT uses, and I told it to re-write it as a Soldier, and it wrote it in broken English with poor grammar and spelling.
So yeah. It is biased.
Her acceptance speech is funnier than the character she played.
Is anyone else concerned by how rapidly AI stuff is becoming the norm? I mean, look at this very site, for a few months now most of the images have been AI generated. They’re amusing and are usually relevant to the discussion, but Jonn would probably have had a conniption. Scrolling up in the search engine now brings up an AI assistant, and the whole script writing thing is just…odd.
I don’t subscribe to the theories that AI will dominate the human race and turn us in subservient fleshbots who exist only to cater to our robot masters, but I think I’m just at the tail end of a generation (Gen-X) where this whole concept is foreign and alien to my way of thinking.
Then again, with my writing style, I’ve been accused of being a bot and AI on YouTube comments, so there’s that. 🤖
Have no fear, I will not be using AI in my posts here. I have enough trouble finding stuff, copying to clipboard and then retrieving from. Some of you may have even noticed
Reality is analog. AI is digital. Therefore AI is not reality.
Life is analog, not digital.
Yeah. I am afraid AI is everywhere. I don’t think we can even pull the plug even if we got a consensus and we all wanted to.
Other countries would continue ahead and we would find ourselves one day fighting in a conflict in which our enemies would have a massive technological advantage over us.
AI is here to stay. Remember that one time when one of the Popes tried to outlaw the crossbow because it could penetrate a knight’s armor? Yeah. It didn’t work.
Clown.
This is more evidence that AI will continue to take humanity further along the ever-steepening slope toward complete stupidity and inability to do anything at all.
Yeah, who needs Soma when you have AI? Huxley was kind of a prophet in that he saw dumbing-down and hedonism as a means to control humanity. He just got the technique wrong. 🤣
Proofreading.
College 101. But she never finished. Go figure.
From a long line of rich folks. I do not begrudge her of that, just her laziness.
Who? Never was a fan…or her or the show. Tho she seemed to be easy on the eyes and a brunette, her accent, politics, and attitude would be a cause of ED…for me anyhow…YMMV.
Her speech was as artificial as her “acting” ability, the show overall, and the laff track. I miss Lucy, and Carol, and Betty…and…well…you get the idea. Maybe I’m just too old…and too appreciative of REAL talent.
I thought she was funny on ‘Seinfeld’ but lost interest in everything she was in after that.
Well, just proves that nothing has changed in the computer world…garbage in = garbage out.
“This is a brilliant way to show how writers and actors cannot be replaced by AI.”
Cannot be replaced yet. Soon AI will replace all professional writers. AI generated actors who are undistinguishable from real life actors will be next.
The funniest thing is that for a long time the so-called technology prophets have been predicting that AI and automation will replace all blue collar jobs. It turns out that AI has already begun to replace white collar jobs, while blue collar jobs will be the last to be replaced.
I am still waiting for my self driving car.
fuck the self driving cars, Blade Runner said we would have flying cars by 2019, my whole childhood was ruined when 2019 came and went in real life.
Flying cars are here now. You can still salvage at least some of your childhood.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fYMfy1LYF0U
Just ask Buzz Aldrin:
Great, now I can’t NOT look at Buzz Aldrin’s nipple(s).
“This is a brilliant way to show how writers and actors cannot be replaced by AI.”
I disagree. Hollywood has been churning out shitty movies for a few years now, so I attribute that to shitty writers relying on AI and overall lack in imagination.
[Sarc off]
AI is just the 2023 version of GIGO.
The only Seinfeld episode I watched from start to finish was The Soup Nazi. I thought it was funny because the guy looked like Saddam Hussein. Every other one I tried to watch was just not entertaining.
Once told somebody the service was like a really bad episode of Seinfeld that doesn’t end. (It was a crummy unit.)