i'm obsessed with the fully conscious baby
+ ScarJo says ScarNO to OpenAI, and police have opened a probe into Matthew Perry's death
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Also here’s a meme Squish sent me that I’m obsessed with:
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I’m obsessed with the fully conscious baby
As I begun writing this section I asked the table of people I’m with if they’d heard of the fully conscious baby.
They looked at me like I was a fucking madwoman.
This is not rare, because I am a madwoman, but I did feel a pang of jealousy writhe through me as it occurred to me just how online I am.
Anyway, I digress, let’s talk about the fully conscious baby.
Essentially it’s a video that’s gone viral on TikTok, where the baby’s Mum is behind the camera saying:
“I have a question for everybody: who wants to go to the Four Seasons Orlando?”
And then the baby (along with another toddler) put her hand up and says - very consciously
“me!”
Here’s the video that started it all:
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Anyway, the internet is now obsessed and intrigued by the fully conscious baby, the memes are EVERYTHING, and the Four Seasons Orlando have been speedy to say they’re open to collaborating.
I really hope this doesn’t turn into a milkshake duck, for the baby’s sake.
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Scarlett Johansson says Open AI used her voice for the voice they released called ‘Sky’
Ok so even though it’s my job, I’m actually not gonna explain what happened because Casey Newton already slayed that part in Platformer:
On Monday, actress Scarlett Johansson revealed that the OpenAI CEO had been negotiating with her for the better part of a year to lend her voice to ChatGPT. “He told me that he felt that by my voicing the system, I could bridge the gap between tech companies and creatives and help consumers to feel comfortable with the seismic shift concerning humans and AI,” Johansson said in a statement published by NPR’s Bobby Allyn. “He said he felt that my voice would be comforting to people.”
Johansson declined to participate. But when OpenAI unveiled voices for ChatGPT in September, users were struck by the uncanny similarity between the voice it called Sky and Johansson’s. And it should not have been a surprise: Altman has said that Her, in which Johansson voices an AI assistant with whom the film’s protagonist falls in love, is his favorite movie. Last week, after OpenAI showcased an updated version of Sky that takes advantage of its latest models, Altman posted the movie’s title suggestively on X.
Here’s the statement Johansson released:
Open AI has since pulled the voice, but is it kinda too little too late??? I also hate to be cynical (ok I love it) but this has been incredibly good marketing for the fact that OpenAI now has a voice function. Damn, any publicity really is good publicity.
LA police have launched an investigation into Matthew Perrys death
About six months after we learnt about the tragic death of Matthew Perry, police in LA have launched an investigation into how he got the prescription medication that was found in his system (anesthetic ketamine.)
An autopsy found levels of ketamine (sometimes used to treat depression) in his blood similar to levels used during general anesthesia, which is why the LAPD and DEA have launched the joint investigation.
You can read more on this story here!
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