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by RobertDeNiro 1330 days ago
Is there any value to these? like its a cool tech demo, but they are mostly saying non sense.
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They mostly don't say nonsense. I listened to the whole thing and I found it very convincing. I've never been able to listen all the way through AI generated content before. It's hard for me to believe this was 100% AI generated.
> I listened to the whole thing and I found it very convincing.

Eh? "Lex Fridman's" voice is shaky as fuck in the first 30 seconds and apparently he can't pronounce science now? - it says sci-in. (It continues to be flawed - he sounds sick when he says UC Berkeley). If I heard this knowing it was really him I would be concerned he was having a stroke.

His voice is defective enough that it is actually irritating to listen to.

Also, the opening monologue doesn't sound much like Feynman's style - he was known for being irreverent, flippant, intense and maybe even occasionally dismissive - but not this aggressive - certainly in a sitdown interview he agreed to. Also hard to believe he would fuck up the word "interviewee".

He wants to "walk"? and listen?.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA

This would only fool someone that has never heard Feynman speak for an appreciable period - but then you might as well get a decent impersonator. And really the content doesn't hold up to even basic critical listening scrutiny.

> They mostly don't say nonsense.

Oh god dude, most of the material is false and easily verified as false from basic sources. It's mostly nonsense.

EDIT: Ok listening to segment between 3:30 and 4:30 I know I'm being trolled.

We must have different frames of reference. I'm surprised that anyone would scoff at this.
I think the beginning and end of the value of these is as a tech demo. At this point in the lifecycle of the technology, I don't think anyone is trying to achieve novel, valuable content.
It's marketing for a tech demo.