[ExI] that ai video

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On 2026-01-20 04:37, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> > I don’t recall who found this, but after reviewing that video
> > several times, I am still astonished at how good the AI has become in
> > only a few years.  It has me rethinking my position as an S delta.
> > Not being up to speed on British politics, I looked into Amelia.  The
> > AI picked up her sarcasm, created a human-like character which is
> > difficult to distinguish from the real thing.
>
> I was the one who posted the video and yes, it wasn't the quality of the
> graphics and the AI-generated video that impressed me, instead it was
> the AI's ability to portray Amelia with so much emotion, personality,
> and charm. We are nearing the end of the Uncanny Valley. How can we
> explain our stochastic parrots giving Oscar worthy performances based on
> a text prompt and some memes?

Quite a lot of memes - and I suspect those memes are where the emotion
truly came from.  The prompt just got Grok to compile what a lot of
people had already written for that specific case.