<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Oops, there it was in another string. I’m caught up now lol. </div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 29, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Henry Rivera <hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">I don’t think I’ve seen this mentioned here yet. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Boston Dynamics Spot robots can converse with you using ChatGPT and text-to-speech. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Talking to the robo dogs is not quite as romantic as the chat in the movie Her. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Yet. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://youtu.be/djzOBZUFzTw">https://youtu.be/djzOBZUFzTw</a></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block;" class=""><br></div><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/this-is-what-happened-when-boston-dynamics-robots-started-to-speak-powered-by-chatgpt"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/this-is-what-happened-when-boston-dynamics-robots-started-to-speak-powered-by-chatgpt" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#DFDFE1;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><div><jCjmKa8F6TCPTCfSvTwU6N-1200-80.jpg></div></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#DFDFE1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(223, 223, 225, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/this-is-what-happened-when-boston-dynamics-robots-started-to-speak-powered-by-chatgpt" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);">This is what happened when Boston Dynamics' robots started to speak, powered by ChatGPT</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/this-is-what-happened-when-boston-dynamics-robots-started-to-speak-powered-by-chatgpt" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);">windowscentral.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br></div><div dir="ltr">-Henry</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 28, 2023, at 5:34 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><span>...> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat</span><br><span>Subject: Re: [ExI] People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 21:48, spike jones via extropy-chat</span><br><span><extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>... Upon realizing this, my own enthusiasm for trying to create such a</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><span>device cooled, even if I could earn a buttload. Causing the extinction of</span><br><span>humankind was too high a price to pay, even for a really deep, wide and tall</span><br><span>pile of money...</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>...It is a bit more than gratification though.</span><br></blockquote><span>Next year's model will be a Scarlett Johansson bot that will also do your</span><br><span>tax returns, manage your investments and discuss the Theory of Relativity</span><br><span>with you. You know accountants are irresistible! :)</span><br><span></span><br><span>Humanity is doomed.</span><br><span></span><br><span>BillK</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>All along we thought it would be bombs or lab viruses.</span><br><span></span><br><span>But in any case BillK, I think not. Humanity will survive that threat and</span><br><span>even the other two, in some places on the planet, probably sub-Saharan</span><br><span>Africa. We radiated out from there once, we can do it again.</span><br><span></span><br><span>spike</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></body></html>