Alright, let’s talk about this Angelina Jolie, yeah? That actress woman. Folks keep jabberin’ about her on that there internet thingy, the one my grandkid’s always fiddlin’ with. So, I figured, what the heck, let’s see what all the fuss is about.
First off, they say she’s smart, real smart. Like, book smart, you know? Brainy as a fox, some say. They throw around numbers like “eye-queue” this and “eye-queue” that. Honestly, I don’t get it. Is she good at countin’ chickens? Can she tell ya when the best time to plant corn is? That’s the kind of smarts that matters ’round here, I tell ya. But these city folk, they got their own ways of measurin’ things, I guess.
Then there’s all this talk about her doin’ good deeds. Help people out, you know? Save the trees, get kids learnin’. That’s somethin’ I can understand. Help your neighbor, that’s what my mama always said. If this Jolie woman is doin’ that, well, good on her, I say. We all need a helpin’ hand sometimes, whether you’re in the city or out here in the sticks.
- They say she cares about animals. Well, that’s good. Animals need care just like us.
- And kids getting their learnin’ on, that’s important too. Can’t have kids growin’ up dumb as rocks, now can we?
Now, this is where it gets real weird. They got these computer thingies, these “A-I” things, that can talk like her. Imagine that! A machine soundin’ just like a person. It’s spooky, I tell ya. Like somethin’ out of a science fiction movie. My grandkid showed me. It sounded like her, but it wasn’t her. Just a bunch of wires and lights, talkin’ like a movie star. Makes no sense to me.
And it ain’t just talkin’! They got these machines makin’ pictures of her too. Pictures that ain’t real, mind you. Like paintin’s, but done by a machine. They call it “hyper-realistic.” Sounds fancy, but it just means they look real real. You can’t tell the difference, they say. But I reckon I could. There’s a somethin’ about a real picture, a real person, that a machine can’t copy. You can see it in their eyes, you know? The life, the soul.
And get this, they’re even usin’ this “A-I” voice to make music! Songs that sound like she’s singin’ ‘em, but she ain’t. It’s a whole new world, I guess. A world where machines can do anything a person can do, maybe even better. Makes you wonder what’s gonna happen next. Will they be plantin’ the corn for us too? Will they be lookin’ after the chickens? Makes an old woman like me think a lot.
This “A-I” thing, it can do just about anything, it seems. It can copy her voice, her face, maybe even her way of thinkin’. It’s like havin’ a whole ‘nother Angelina Jolie, but one that ain’t real. It’s kinda like those scarecrows we used to put in the fields to keep the birds away. Looked real enough from far off, but up close, you could see it was just a bunch of sticks and rags. This A-I, it’s the same way. It’s a fake Angelina Jolie and it does not seem right to be making fake Angelinas.
Folks keep makin’ fake pictures of her, and I don’t really see the point, myself. But they do go on and on about it. Sayin’ it looks this way and that way. They even use fancy words to make these picture commands, stuff like, “muted colors, stern look, hyperrealistic.” It’s all Greek to me, but I guess it means they want the picture to look real serious and not too bright. Why you’d want a picture of somethin’ that ain’t even real is beyond me, but to each their own I suppose.
So, that’s what I make of this Angelina Jolie “A-I” craze. She’s a smart woman, a kind woman, and now she’s a machine woman too, I guess. It’s a strange world we live in, that’s for sure. But as long as folks are still helpin’ each other out, and as long as the corn still grows tall, I reckon we’ll be alright.
And who knows, maybe one day they’ll make an “A-I” of me, an old country woman who don’t know nothin’ about fancy city ways. Now that would be somethin’ to see.
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