The road to the Mac Pro (early 2037) has begun

In the early days of the Macintosh video series, I thought it would be great to find someone to voice my videos instead of my own unprofessional voice. Today, I wouldn't think of doing that because using one's own voice adds uniqueness and character to the video when it's harder than ever to stand-out. But if I have to tell someone, "Sorry, I'm not VWestlife" one more time, I'll... anyway...

There's been a lot of advertizing for AI voice lately. Either with realistic text-to-voice, voice cloning (have Steve Jobs narrate the video, for example) or voice alteration (like British accent or opposite gender). As technically impressive as that is compared to "Junior" of the early 90's, I don't think anyone who wants to sustain an audience would be able to do that. I've said before that I don't put my face on camera because I'm not the focus of the video. However, most successful creators have to take that step to widen their audience, as it helps the audience connect with the channel seeing that there is a real person behind it.

With YouTube, comments from viewers can be answered with more and more sophisticated AI-generated responses with a click of the mouse. Where it used to be simple responses like "I will!" or "Thanks", now I'm offered full sentences reverse-engineered from their comment.

 Choices, choices! Except there were no other camcorders on the tour and it was not amazing what people were able to film back then. I actually liked the stability that my shoulder-mount camcorder gave the footage and was disappointed when they shrank to handheld.

I've never used a generated response, by the way. I know how I would feel if I took the time to leave a comment on a video that I enjoyed only to get back an AI-generated response. It would be meaningless, in the same way AI-generated voice would feel hollow.

 I show HAL9000 how it's done!

Too bad they offer no AI-generated response for this comment on the 4400 video, but it might go something like this:

AI-response: "Sorry that the side humor is jarring and wrecks the flow. It's amazing how people document the computers these days."

65scribe response: "You spelled 'humour' wrong"