Welcome to your Friday version of TMA. It’s a public vacation the place I’m from, so it’s a shorter briefing than traditional. Barring a barrage of new cars (tariffs? shh!) revealed on the New York Worldwide Auto Present, it’s been a comparatively quiet week, however not with no little bit of drama.
“You already know, they are saying cash can’t purchase happiness. And… yeah, OK… I assume that’s true. God is aware of I’ve tried. However it may possibly purchase a Cybertruck, and that’s fairly sick, proper? …Proper?? Fuck, I’m so alone.” That’s what a reasonably sensible AI voice clone of Elon Musk was saying to pedestrians at crosswalks in Palo Alto. An AI Mark Zuckerberg joined him, with each billionaires’ voices mimicked to say, nicely, the issues numerous us are pondering, whether or not it’s the invasive AI push, billionaires wielding energy over authorities or different bleak, beige real-world variations of Black Mirror premises.
They have been in operation at downtown intersections in Redwood Metropolis, Menlo Park and Palo Alto however have been gone, sadly, by Saturday.
Nobody’s staked a declare to the prank — however there are most likely many individuals in Silicon Valley able to pulling it off. Extra not too long ago, an AI clone of Jeff Bezos was talking on Seattle crosswalks.
— Mat Smith
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