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Episode 17 - Ten years from Her (2013) to Humane
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Jeff and Seymour discuss interplay among sci-fi movies, speculative fiction, and 'real world AI' through the lens of Spike Jonze's 2013 movie Her. Also some conversation about the upcoming Humane Ai Pin. Links:
- Biden's Executive Order and related AP article quoting White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bruce Reed on impact of Tom Cruise's recent Mission Impossible movie.
- Quote: "We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
- Deep learning revolution began getting significant attention in 2012 when AlexNet won that year's ImageNet competition.
- 2013 interview with Spike Jonze when he describes his early 2000s experience instant messaging with a chatbot similar to ELIZA.
- Original voice behind Her's Samantha AI was Samantha Morton; her role was completely re-recorded by Scartlett Johansson during post-production.
- Samantha Morton also starred with Tom Cruise in an earlier influential sci-fi film Minority Report.
- Rabbit might be building an AI-based OS with an investment by Sam Altman.
- NY Times article about a future hardware device mixing contributions from Altman, Jony Ive's LoveFrom, ARM, and Masayoshi Son's Softbank.
- Humane's website where you can view their product photography and pics from their fashion show.
- Preview before Humane's November 9th product launch this week.
- Form factor reminded Jeff a little of the 3rd Gen iPod nano from 2007.
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