Jesse's Blog

There's an AI that tries to emulate George Carlin, and I keep seeing posts about how similar it is, how much folks believe it could have been his work.

This is disappointing. It doesn't sound like him, it doesn't flow in the way that he did, and most importantly, it's not funny. Even at his most bitter, Carlin could at least make you laugh. The AI doesn't get that.

Even though I deeply disagree with many things that Carlin said, he had a deep love of words, and fitting them together just right. The AI just wants to talk fast with a decent vocabulary.

Carlin's daughter has said that no AI system could capture his genius, and she's dead on right. That wasn't the statement of a loving daughter hurt by the idea of people trying to make a zombie of the work of her father, although that'd be a reasonable thing to have said in her shoes. It's a statement made by one of the apparent few who understand what George did.