AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - AI "actor" Tilly Norwood malfunctions on live TV, switches from English to Cantonese mid-sentence
An artificial-intelligence "actor" created to promote a new film broke down during a live interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, abruptly switching from English to Cantonese, a glitch that exposed the limits of the technology Hollywood is racing to normalize. Tilly Norwood, a generative AI creation built by Xicoia, the AI division of a company called […] The post AI "actor" Tilly Norwood malfunctions on live TV, switches from English to Cantonese mid-sentence appeared first on American Almanac .
An artificial-intelligence "actor" created to promote a new film broke down during a live interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, abruptly switching from English to Cantonese, a glitch that exposed the limits of the technology Hollywood is racing to normalize. Tilly Norwood, a generative AI creation built by Xicoia, the AI division of a company called Particle6, was mid-answer on Friday's program when the malfunction hit. Actor Tom Conti, who appeared in Oppenheimer, had asked Norwood a straightforward question: were the other performers in her film Misaligned real human beings, or were they computer-generated like her? Norwood began answering, then lapsed into Cantonese without warning, The Hollywood Reporter reported . Morgan and Conti…Open