Welcome to your Friday version of TMA. It’s a public vacation the place I’m from, so it’s a shorter briefing than ordinary. Barring a barrage of new cars (tariffs? shh!) revealed on the New York Worldwide Auto Present, it’s been a comparatively quiet week, however not and not using a little bit of drama.
“You recognize, they are saying cash can’t purchase happiness. And… yeah, OK… I suppose that’s true. God is aware of I’ve tried. However it may possibly purchase a Cybertruck, and that’s fairly sick, proper? …Proper?? Fuck, I’m so alone.” That’s what a fairly real looking AI voice clone of Elon Musk was saying to pedestrians at crosswalks in Palo Alto. An AI Mark Zuckerberg joined him, with each billionaires’ voices mimicked to say, properly, the issues a whole lot of us are considering, whether or not it’s the invasive AI push, billionaires wielding energy over authorities or different bleak, beige real-world variations of Black Mirror premises.
They have been in operation at downtown intersections in Redwood Metropolis, Menlo Park and Palo Alto however have been gone, sadly, by Saturday.
Nobody’s staked a declare to the prank — however there are in all probability many individuals in Silicon Valley able to pulling it off. Extra not too long ago, an AI clone of Jeff Bezos was talking on Seattle crosswalks.
— Mat Smith
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Its video is nice, it lastly does stills properly and it’s cheaper than its rivals.
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The true bodily version.
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