2025-04-18 13:16:21| Engadget
Welcome to your Friday edition of TMA. Its a public holiday where Im from, so its a shorter briefing than usual. Barring a barrage of new cars (tariffs? shh!) revealed at the New York International Auto Show, its been a relatively quiet week, but not without a bit of drama.
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You know, they say money cant buy happiness. And yeah, OK I guess thats true. God knows Ive tried. But it can buy a Cybertruck, and thats pretty sick, right? Right?? Fuck, Im so alone. Thats what a pretty realistic AI voice clone of Elon Musk was saying to pedestrians at crosswalks in Palo Alto. An AI Mark Zuckerberg joined him, with both billionaires voices mimicked to say, well, the things a lot of us are thinking, whether its the invasive AI push, billionaires wielding power over government or other bleak, beige real-world versions of Black Mirror premises.
They were in operation at downtown intersections in Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto but were gone, sadly, by Saturday.
No ones staked a claim to the prank but there are probably many people in Silicon Valley capable of pulling it off. More recently, an AI clone of Jeff Bezos was talking on Seattle crosswalks.
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