Thu. 02/02 - AI Seinfeld & Real-World Tamagotchi

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The AI-generated Seinfeld parody cartoon that never goes off the air. Plus, Netflix did not read the room when they announced the AI image generation in their latest anime short. And a smartwatch that stops working if you don’t keep the living organism inside of it alive. It’s a high-stakes Tamagotchi, and it has an intriguing purpose. Links: Watchmeforever (Twitch) ‘Nothing, Forever’ Is An Endless ‘Seinfeld’ Episode Generated by AI (Vice) Trans Seinfeld (voxybunch, Twitter) More trans Seinfeld (gayjerryseinfeld, Tumblr) AI ‘Seinfeld’ Parody Experiment Foretells Streaming’s Hellish Future (The Mary Sue) Netflix Made an Anime Using AI Due to a 'Labor Shortage,' and Fans Are Pissed (Vice) Netflix is getting blasted for using AI art in an anime instead of hiring artists (Mashable) Netflix stirs fears by using AI-assisted background art in short anime film (Ars Technica) High-Stakes Tamagotchi: Living Smartwatch Literally Dies if You Don't Feed It (Gizmodo) Smartwatch Powered By Slime Mold Is Like Having A Tamagotchi On Your Wrist (IFL Science) Bizarre Smartwatch Contains Living Organism (Futurism) Integrating Living Organisms in Devices to Implement Care-based Interactions (Human Computer Integration Lab) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	it's thursday february second twenty twenty three i'm jackson bird today the It's Thursday, February 2nd, 2023. I'm Jackson Bird today. The AI-generated
0:43.1	sign-filled parody cartoon that never goes off the air. Plus, Netflix did not read the room
0:50.8	when they announced the AI image generation in their latest anime short,
0:56.0	and a smartwatch that stops working if you don't keep the living organism inside of it alive.
1:03.4	It's a high-stakes Tamagachi, and it has an intriguing purpose.
1:08.3	Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:15.5	We should have a contest to see who can eat the most hot dogs and then finish with ice cream. You know what would be really crazy?
1:21.3	What? Tell me, if Larry became a competitive figure skater. No way, that would be completely ridiculous. Yeah, but I bet
1:31.3	he'd make a great triple axle. That's some dialogue from a Twitch stream currently going a bit
1:38.5	viral called Nothing Forever. It's a 24-hour non-stop stream of an AI-generated Seinfeld parody. The visuals are all
1:50.4	pixel cartoons that look vaguely like the four main characters of the 90s sitcom. The backdrop is
1:57.5	Jerry, or sorry, Larry's apartment with transitional exterior shots outside of the building.
2:04.3	Some episodes end with Larry up at the mic doing a stand-up bit.
2:09.8	There's background music and even a laugh track.
2:12.5	As I record this, there are over 15,000 people watching it live and the chat is on fire.
2:20.3	Quoting Vice, Skyler Hartel and his co-creator Brian Habersberger used a combination of machine learning,
2:28.3	generative algorithms, and cloud services to build the show. Hartle told Motherboard that the dialogue is powered by OpenAI's
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