I always found the Max headroom character to be really dumb. It was not convincing at all. It never said anything intelligent. It was just very poor quality cosplay.
Chat GPT has already surpassed everything they pretended to be.
Open AI already has humans programing political responses into it, so it is already a talking head.
Setting up some kind of speach to text and text to speach with a taking giff would be trivial.
The Max Headroom Character was a thing only because it fit the times it was in.
Sure it wasnt done great, there was obvious glitches. by todays standards its laughable even.
I dont mena speifically Max headroom.
Think Random head, you walk up. it appears (or alrready presenmt to await) and takes requests and replies in sort of natural language.
With the advances such as you've mentioned. I think it could be done in a decent 3d hologram type display in 10 years...
Not sure about the hologram part, but a video head on a monitor with which you can have a simple conversation and order food etc.
I would say 2-3 years. GPT4 is almost out, voice cloning works, NN video content generation is working albeit wonky still.
The biggest hurdle if any is quicker response time, so AI on the edge, which tensor accelerator boards address.
All I know is that the future is gonna be weird. It’s like every single futuristic movie except instead of one movie happening they’re all happening.
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