Rätt rolig takedown av generativa AI-branchen.
OpenAI had a showcase of its own this week that was similarly underwhelming, despite how much the company’s executives and parts of the media tried to pretend otherwise. As a few members of the OpenAI team showed off a ChatGPT voice bot doing math equations, responding to basic requests, and doing a very short voice translation demo with a flirty, female tone that got commentators obsessively comparing it to the movie Her, the tool itself kept making mistakes and unrelated comments that the presenters had to awkwardly laugh off. Over at Intelligencer, John Herrman astutely observed that AGI is no closer to being achieved, so OpenAI is getting its tools to “perform the part of an intelligent machine.”