not sure it has an agreed upon name (the video i'm linking just calls it "that youtube intonation")

this video from a linguistics professor goes into a lot of the detail as to how and why it sounds as it sounds, if that helps at all

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IJL...

idk if i have any new or interesting takeaway, but its just a little uncomfortable to think about how close we were to that world

and like, remember when that ai darth vader thing was put into fortnite and started spouting slurs basically immediately? imagine a world where that happened in the parks.

i don't doubt for a second that if the living characters initiative was still going on in full force today that disney would want to shoehorn llms into god knows what in the parks.

really makes you think of the value, or lack thereof, of replacing humans with machines in social or conversational settings

it just feels so weird to see all of the steps taken towards this exact (awful) solution, and then it all comes tumbling down.

so much of the initiative seemed hellbent at coercing a machine to replicate a human in a conversational setting. and now, in many ways divorced from their efforts, we live in a world where it's not only possible, but also a huge problem on multiple scales that i wish we didn't have to deal with.

for all the experiments disney did with natual language processing and related technologies, it seems like there was one, *one*, that was llm-powered (the droid assistant on the starcruiser), and it was locked behind a great number of gates that would limit access.

bsky.app/profile/aseb...

For the curious, she gave a great keynote for AIIDE 2022 @aiide.bsky.social about her experience with the subjects of this Defunctland video, which you can watch online: youtu.be/AnFO6sDDd5U?...

my friend group somehow survived a full campaign, and idk how we'll ever find the time and energy to do that again lol

omg, modern winter izutsumi!!

aha! it *is* a squircle (they use an atom to set borderCurve to continuous, which is squircle curve on ios 13+)

github.com/bluesky-soci...

reactnative.dev/docs/view-st...

dang

wait no i see the squircle too

dokapon kingdom is mario party as a 40-hour rpg. it's just as painful as you'd expect and it *rules*

that's what straftat is! it's free and goofy and incredibly french but also *is* kind of a game for movement quake shooter sickos.