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From SL: “Loved your piece on the impact of AI on commercial writing. Here’s a video of Steven Pinker on a related subject.”
From GM: “Loving the blog as usual. I enjoy the breadth of topics but specifically the business section as I’m in my 30s and starting my own company. Wanted to share this – Elon’s latest update on Neuralink (released 6/27). Thought you’d find it unbelievable, scary, inspiring, all sorts of emotions.”
“We Are the World”
Did this really happen?
No. Of course not. It’s AI. But I wanted you to see it for three reasons that correspond to three responses I had to it.
1. It’s funny. What makes it especially humorous is that all the world leaders are singing in tones and accents that resemble the tones and accents they have when they speak English.
2. The AI is not perfect, but it’s a lot better than I would have expected, considering the challenges involved. The lip synching, for example, is amazingly good.
3. Halfway through the song, I found myself feeling moved by it – adrift in sentiment and thinking, “Wouldn’t it be lovely?” This quickly made, amateurishly produced, AI meme managed to accomplish (in my heart, at least) the naïvely delusional impulse that the people originally involved in it had in mind when it was first recorded.
I’m not sure what that says about anything, but I thought I should send it to you and ask you to watch it and tell me how you reacted to it.