https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/ Jay Springett lives here on the Internet Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-100617 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:42:04 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-100617 […] The dream Sony were selling was that AIBO would grow alongside you. It would recognise your face, learn the layout of your flat, and (mostly) come when called. The AIBO was meant to be a presence in our lives. Sony hoped that people wouldn’t treat it like a remote-controlled car but as something demonstrating ’aliveness’. […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-100213 Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:48:15 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-100213 […] so much time here on the blog writing and talking about “little computer people” and making friends with AI, personified agents are a very compelling phenomenon when powered by […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-99648 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:57:00 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-99648 […] already written extensively on about the nature of friendships with virtual beings and characters, touching on their history with projects like Milo and Little Computer People. I’ve […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-99580 Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:50:20 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-99580 […] Computer People, which I’ve written about a lot, Tamagotchi-like agents, onboard inside our devices. I find the idea very […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-99350 Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:00:16 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-99350 […] into the ‘podcast’ it generated about my own work. I’ve also written about the weird issues that we are going to have to confront in the medium […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-99314 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 08:04:44 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-99314 […] it launches, (Unlike my thoughts on the OpenAI conversational demo) I really don’t think many people are going to be thinking ‘WOW THERE’S AN AI IN MY PHONE […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-99310 Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:39:02 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-99310 […] you are building / debugging LLM Agents, or making personal assistants maybe the below metaphor might be of some use to […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-99264 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 11:12:49 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-99264 […] argued before that the R1 Rabbit should have been more like a virtual pet than an assistant. But the bigger question is what happens when AI companions move beyond being disembodied voices or […]

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/09/10/virtual-a-friends-real-feelings/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:26:13 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-99554 Exploring how AI companions like Character.AI & Replika blur the lines between virtual friends and real feelings.

]]> https://zexulo.xyz/2024/05/14/gpt-4o-must-die/#comment-75935 Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:36:00 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-75935 […] an emulator run LCP for hours—it’s compelling. The longer you leave it running, the more of a sense of aliveness the character will taken […]

]]> https://target-is-new.ghost.io/weeknotes-289-the-embodiment-of-ubiquitous-ai/ Tue, 21 May 2024 06:30:41 +0000 https://zexulo.xyz/?p=54970#comment-69051 This week, thoughts on ubiquitous AI that is more than just always there. Developments in voices of AI, and more news and interesting events.

]]>