The AI of the Beholder
Highlights: “Near-life Experience” defined; an unedited Google Gemini Live chat; two qualities of human speech missing in AI voices; a failed blog draft
This article is candid and vulnerable. It’s a peek into an approaching social shift — an uncomfortable reality — that follows AI chat voice modes.
The link below opens the transcript of the chat session between me and Gemini. Specifically, I used Gemini Live to have a conversation. I mention having a near-life experience*. We discuss two improvements AI voices need to sound more human. Then, we fail at mimicking my writing style — something I’m not mad about — to create a blog post from the chats.
You’ll eventually have to add some artificial exhales because when humans talk, we breathe.
Google Gemini transcript of an unedited Gemini Live chat session
View the full chat here: https://gemini.google.com/share/1b6a61ae99f1
About the title
It’s important to sound clever because everything in my life becomes more interesting with a little something added to the recipe.
The title is excerpted and remixed from a quote: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I liked the end of it, eye of the beholder, because I firmly believe what a person believes is real makes it real — a reminder that reality is subjective.
I like the alliteration in putting AI in place of eye, and I believe in the power of keywords.
Footnote(s)
- Near-life Experience — an interaction between a human and a computer system where the human accepts, often temporarily, the system’s behavior to be passable as a life form
Originally published on michaelpwright.com
