Episode · This Week in Startups · 2023-12-19

Books mentioned on AI DEMOS: Turning Adele into John Mayer, animating a Jedi Bulldog, AI companions and much more! | E1867

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Mentioned: Westworld by Michael Crichton and Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Westworld

   Michael Crichton · at 18:17

   Michael Crichton's novel Westworld presents a dystopian science-fiction premise where human visitors enter a simulated environment populated by sophisticated robots, raising complex questions about human-robot interaction and artificial consciousness.

   Discussed

   “and that one that was Michael kon's book Westworld is a movie from it U and then they made it into a TV series and that is like hey here's a real world person going into a scenario with robots”

   Speaker AI DEMOS: Turning Adele into John Mayer, animating a Jedi Bulldog, AI … 2023-12-19 Listen at 18:17

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   Planet of the Apes

   Pierre Boulle · at 19:32

   Discussed

   “so if you looked at Planet of the Apes uh you know as a French author did it I think it was in the 60s and you know that was really about um slavery racism”

   Speaker AI DEMOS: Turning Adele into John Mayer, animating a Jedi Bulldog, AI … 2023-12-19 Listen at 19:32

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible