Re:Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient
by stevesimmons on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:19AM
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The master tapes are available. If you pay ITV, they will actually convert them to mp4 for you.
ITV apparently said this, from a 2021 forum post I found via Google:
I wrote to ITV in 2019 about this. Here is part of the (very helpful) response I received:
"Currently, the only option for a copy would be for us to make one-off transfers from each individual master tape. These are an old format of reel-to-reel tape which increases the cost, I'm afraid: If delivered as video files (mp4), the total price would be £761.00 or on DVD it’s £771.00."
If only we could find a few people to split that cost!
In the book professor Robin Dempsey almost become mad by chatting with ELIZA and gradually begin to believe it's sentient to the point of being ridiculous.
PS: Apparently it was also adapted in a British TV serie in 1988, but unfortunately at that time they tended to reuse magnetic band and it's improbable that we can dig a clip out of that. Would have been appropriate an illustration!