Well, I cloned a myself with Elevenlabs and OpenAI - 10 minutes for voice, 60 minutes for prompt rules. Unnerving and fun to argue with. I’ve cloned a textual and verbal Tom of Finland, a textual Gore Vidal, Harvey Milk, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, Abraham Lincoln. It’s a fun party trick, but as an adult who has no fantasy delusions,
I know the difference between a chatbot and a person (I don’t subscribe to the Turing Test for humans, sorry Alan.)
Sadly, humans so easily anthropomorphize any number of inanimate (and animate) objects - clouds, cars, cats. Men and children are more apt to do so than women who have a larger mirror neuron complex. Certain other conditions such as mind-blindness and alexithymia which diminish the ability to recognize people as having minds and emotions... and I suspect would also reduce the ability to anthropomorphize. Anthropomorphization in absence of actual humans mostly is a feature of our perceptual neural systems, similar to a perception of color even in absence of color (our mind perceiving red + green sees yellow even in absence of any yellow wavelength of light, our mirror neurons perceive faces in clouds, c.f. Saturday Night Live and “Pope in the Pizza”).
Now the trick is that these people either think an inanimate object (computer) can be a human, or that a human is actually a computer. I can’t quite see which defect is the better explanation.
Terrific, Alan!!
Well, I cloned a myself with Elevenlabs and OpenAI - 10 minutes for voice, 60 minutes for prompt rules. Unnerving and fun to argue with. I’ve cloned a textual and verbal Tom of Finland, a textual Gore Vidal, Harvey Milk, Gertrude Stein, James Baldwin, Abraham Lincoln. It’s a fun party trick, but as an adult who has no fantasy delusions,
I know the difference between a chatbot and a person (I don’t subscribe to the Turing Test for humans, sorry Alan.)
Sadly, humans so easily anthropomorphize any number of inanimate (and animate) objects - clouds, cars, cats. Men and children are more apt to do so than women who have a larger mirror neuron complex. Certain other conditions such as mind-blindness and alexithymia which diminish the ability to recognize people as having minds and emotions... and I suspect would also reduce the ability to anthropomorphize. Anthropomorphization in absence of actual humans mostly is a feature of our perceptual neural systems, similar to a perception of color even in absence of color (our mind perceiving red + green sees yellow even in absence of any yellow wavelength of light, our mirror neurons perceive faces in clouds, c.f. Saturday Night Live and “Pope in the Pizza”).
Now the trick is that these people either think an inanimate object (computer) can be a human, or that a human is actually a computer. I can’t quite see which defect is the better explanation.