Ed Ongweso Jr.
Appearances
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Nothing would fill me with more pleasure. Excellent, excellent.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
I like that she just stole Hurley Herndon's thing, but okay. Digital twin.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Not yet. We need an ad man. We need an ad man for the Coke holdouts. We need an AI Don Draper.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Yeah, it's just an ad that doesn't work. Instead of going to the movies like Don Draper does throughout all of Mad Men, it just doesn't work and respond to any of your queries.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Also vaguely different ethnicity. Why did his face just move? What the fuck is going on? Oh, my God.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Did he just go like... Yeah, no, that's the opening crawl to just some generated Star Wars.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
We're burning down North Carolina for this. Also, there's going to be like 30, 40 companies trying to recreate the same misshapen wheel, you know, for the next five to ten years.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
No, they're going to drive up to the office with a Cybertruck.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
I mean, look, you give me a PS4 and somebody's grandmother and I will make them think that they're watching that. No, seriously, seriously.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
You can get in on the ground floor. for a small price of $1 billion. This is like $100,000 to compute. Yeah. Imagine how good it would be with $100 million.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Is this a segregated diner? Yes. I only see white people in the diner, Edward. She's going back to the good old days. Oh, no, there's a little Indian boy.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Is that Bjork? And he's up again. And he's staring at a girl. Well, that's terrible.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
So by virtue of not having humans work on it, it's so, it's better than you'd have, yeah.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Yeah, because I've only really seen one interesting generative video thing but it wasn't a generative video thing it was they filmed uh brian you know filmed a documentary and they created you know some back-end software so that they would be able to do cuts of existing footage and try to totally focus on different parts of the documentary
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
But I never ever see anything interested in constructing narratives or to teasing other aspects of the creative process. It's only, let's try to replace, right? Let's try to replace. But also you can't do narrative with it.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
I think we should do the monkey Neuralink thing to all of them. And perhaps a pair of calipers. Yes, some calipers.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
Nobody asked the lobbyists from Microsoft what else the company is doing with AI. Right. With police departments or with fossil fuel companies.
Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 164
No, actually, it's really good. I love it. They need it. They... They yearn for the minds. They love data centers.