Gizmodo: Listen to Werner Herzog Read a Book of AI Poetry https://gizmodo.com/werner-herzog-openai-ai-poetry-davinci-1850734891 #generativepretrainedtransformer #computationalneuroscience #artificialneuralnetworks #artificialintelligence #largelanguagemodels #joshmorgenthau #wernerherzog #lanaclarkson #philspector #simonrich #brentkatz #chatbot #chatgpt #herzog #openai #ai

"Final Words Are So Hard to Devise" - Culture.org https://culture.org/logger/final-words-are-so-hard-to-devise/

what a story:

And there were stories. In 2009, for example, the band Hallelujah the Hills, from Boston, was opening for Silver Jews on tour. The two bands were driving separately from Toronto to their next gig in Montreal. Ryan Walsh, Hallelujah’s singer, and his bandmates were zipping down the boring highway when Walsh spotted the entire Silver Jews line-up on the shoulder, up ahead. They were running from their parked tour van up a hill towards another group of people.

Confused, Walsh called Cassie Berman, David’s then partner and bandmate. She told Walsh that they had seen a guy drag his girlfriend out of a car, and they felt they had to intervene. “And then David took the phone from Cassie, and said, in his earnest deadpan, ‘Ryan—it was a job for the headliners.’”

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