Should the Blazers follow NBC's Olympic Coverage, and have an A.I. Bill Schonely? (Ai Michaels)

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Artificial Intelligence Schonz??

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  1. julius

    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Apparently NBC is going to use AI Al Michaels (that's a i, not AL) for the Olympics.


    IF it was OK with the Schonz family, would you be ok if the Blazers used AI to re-create/use Schonz for commercials going forward?
     
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    Yes maybe sometime we could do that. I wouldn't want to do it now with such a long rebuild and losing seasons ahead. Maybe when the team is getting ready for some playoff pushes we could bring that out, of course if the Schonz family approved.
     
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    Can we get an AI Jack Ramsey to coach the team?
     
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    Using AI versions of people needs to be made so the person or family of the person is compensated at a rate higher than using a similar type or level of person.

    Using AI Schonz the Blazers should have to pay the family a higher rate than Calabro.

    Anything less would be seen as profiting off the dead.
     
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    I find this shit creepy as fuck.

    No with every fiber of my being.
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    That's what was implied when I said it was ok with the family.

    The only way this is palatable is if the Schonz family is ok with it and paid well.
     
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    sorry, your AI has 87 times more fiber
     
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    if the Blazers use an AI...I want them to use an AI Mike Rice
     
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    Schonley Walton would be great
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Drunk AI would be fun
     
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    It is certainly creepy.
     
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    I don't know that it needs to be equal pay to an announcer, there is a significant cost to the tech/AI/programming team, and the "announcer" family or real life person doesn't have to do any work. Being the normal physical announcer is many hours and travel, research, etc.

    It certainly needs acceptable compensation though.
     
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    I'd like to hear the real Mike Rice announce with AI Mike Rice.
     
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    I’ll create a Schonley AI and have him read the Communist Manifesto
     
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    AI Bill Walton would be better for that.
     
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    Yeah but I want to annoy anyone who thinks AI Schonz is a good idea
     
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    Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, my artificial tooth
     
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    I'd rather be profited off when I'm dead than when I'm alive.

    Can I just chill for a few more decades and then get paid? I could borrow against posthumous earnings. :)

    More seriously: authors' estates profit off of the works of dead authors all the time, right? I don't think it's that different.
     
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    This is very different. These are full-time jobs that would be taken away. They license the software for an AI Schonely they're going to use it for TV, radio, and probably the Spanish radio. You're looking at 2-3 full-time jobs lost.

    Using a previous work by an author is very different than replacing one or more actors with AI.
     
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    And seeing some of the mistakes AI makes you know AI Schonz will say shit like, "Bingo, Bimbo, Banjo."
     
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