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“My future plans are simple. I’m going to love God forever.
I’m going to love my family and friends forever. I’m going to love my fans forever. And I’m going to love you “Forever and Ever, Amen.”
Randy Travis, Forever and Ever, Amen: A Memoir of Music, Faith, and Braving the Storms of Life
DISCLAIMER: This post is not AI generated.
SECOND DISCLAIMER: I have used ChatGPT to generate “articles” which I have then re-written in my voice.
Driving into work yesterday, I heard Travis doing an interview with radio personality Bobby Bones.
Well, it sounded like Travis. To me, anyway.
I’m not sure it would have to my aunt’s cat, Kazimir, a Randy Travis fan. This is a true story, I saw it myself. My aunt lived with her daughter near the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia Beach. They adopted a stray black cat. Kazimir was beautiful, shy, and huge. I rarely saw him on visits.
But Kazimir loved Randy Travis. I swear I am not making this up.
When my aunt or my cousin would put on a Travis recording, Kazimir would come and sit in front of the
Back to the story.
Eleven years ago, Randy Travis had a stroke that left him unable to speak or sing. But thanks to AI, he’s just released a new single. Engineers took prior recordings of Travis and fed them into AI and generated “Travis” singing. The video is below. In the interview segment, Bones also “interviewed” the AI Randy.
I’m old enough to remember the audiocassette tape commercials with Ella Fitzgerald shattering a glass with her voice. The commercial asked “Is it live, or is it Memorex?”
No glass was shattered, but it sure sounded like Randy was singing. The interview with AI Randy was a little more obvious.
As a writer and artist, who sometimes also does voice performance, this both fascinates and terrifies me. I’m not alone.
You’ll recall last year that last year Hollywood screenwriters went on a 148-day strike because of the use of AI in script writing. They reached a tentative agreement and that’s another story. We haven’t heard the end of it.
It’s fascinating technology, but also a little scary.
Here we are in an election year. How do we know what we’re seeing and hearing is really the candidate?
Please don’t insult either of us by suggesting that AI will only be used ethically.
Used properly, AI can be a helpful tool.
But we would be wise to remember the lessons we learned from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica.
So say we all.
An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war
Associated Press
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
People Blocking Students From College Based On Race Probably On Right Side Of History Again
The Babylon Bee
U.S. — Groundbreaking, surprising new research suggests that people who block students from higher education based on their race are once again the good guys and history will almost certainly look back on them in a favorable light.
Noem suggests Biden’s dog also should have been shot
The Hill
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who has recently come under fire for shooting her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, suggested in a Sunday interview that President Biden’s dog, Commander, should have met a similar fate.
Please stop talking.
My father survived the Holocaust. Why are students taking part in a new call to violence?
Elisha Wiesel, USA Today
My parents had endured unspeakable horrors to arrive at this promised, if imperfect, land, to make common cause with her most deeply held values. I had been not only ungrateful, but blind.
Available on Amazon.
Am Yisrael Chai