As someone who’s consumed every album and special George Carlin produced, it felt like someone retelling their memory of some of his bits. Like regurgitation. It’d be impressive if your nephew performed this at his thirteenth birthday party after becoming obsessed with Carlin.
See, I disagree. Someone retelling their memory of some of his bits, or your nephew performing at his birthday party would be telling old George Carlin jokes. This was new material and was topical, which I think is cool. It’s hard to know what George would really think about today’s climate, but I can’t imagine it would be too far off from the this.
Was it perfect? No. But if I know what it is going in, I can sit back and just enjoy it for what it is - entertainment.
It’d be impressive if your nephew performed this at his thirteenth birthday party after becoming obsessed with Carlin.
Given modern generative large language models are still about a decade away from a thirteenth birthday, this is pretty impressive then.
Does anyone remember the Seinfeld AI generation in 2022?
Do we really think this tech is going to stop here and not improve at all after such rapid growth in the past two years?
By the time of its thirteenth birthday I suspect it’s going to have gotten much better at writing jokes.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That’s because that’s exactly what these are. They don’t create new things. They use and modify existing work.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
They being the writers of the joke, which are humans. The AI part is only imitating George Carlins voice and cadence.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Oh, well that changes a lot. I assumed it was AI generated jokes. The people writting the jokes should just tell it themselves. What’s the point of using Carlin’s likeness?
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Could be they are not good at telling jokes, or they wanted to use material that are more associated with George Carlin rather than them. I don’t know.
IMO, using AI voices is funnier when you make them say things the real person would never say, so I don’t see the appeal of imitating someone.