I was with you until "it will be pretty good too".

Maybe you're right. But I'm yet to see much evidence that AI is actually good at comedy. It's something a whole lot of humans can't do either.

To be fair, there’s a significant proportion of sitcoms that are just regurgitated formulas.

Some studio is almost certainly feeding sitcoms and standup comedy into some horrific LolLLM, but it would almost certainly reject prompts such as “The gang goes black” or “Frank gets molested”, and the outcome of “The gang makes Lethal Weapon 6” is unlikely to be even half as entertaining.

Significant portion of sitcoms are formulaic yes. But Frasier was upper crust legitimate good writing.

Off topic, but have you seen the trailer for the upcoming season? It looks like it might as well have been written by AI. We’re about to get a reminder of how important the supporting cast was on that show. Sad!

I saw the first 2 episodes. It wasn't good.

No Niles or Daphne?

David Hyde Pierce (Niles) and Jane Levees (Daphne) have both declined to return, and John Mahoney (Martin) passed away in 2018; the only returning member of the main cast is Peri Gilpin (Roz), who's only going to make a single guest appearance. Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith) is the only recurring cast member to commit to the new show, and only in a single guest appearance.

I haven't watched it yet but do bare in mind that a lot of great shows took a few episodes (or even a couple of seasons) to find their stride. Frasier was no exception, the first few episodes were setting stage for the rest of the show.

But as I said, I haven't seen the new series so I cannot comment on whether there's anything there to grow from.

Frasier was good writing?! I'm not even going to touch the 'upper crust' comment.

Was this post actually written by Frasier the character?

Well, not the current generation of AI. The one we'll have soon, when AI gets good at comedy.

/s

Running Man was prescient

Part of me cannot wait. Like, I really want to see Frasier go on a date with a person who he (and everyone else) is only dimly aware is a xenomorph. We as the audience will see it as a full blown xenomorph and see it kill background characters while Frasier is bickering with Niles about something silly.

However, I cannot help but wonder in this presumably inevitable techno future of ours, how we will ever talk to anyone about the eventually fever dream quality of media that we'll each individually be consuming in unique niches.

I'm already reading Blindsight and wondering how in the world I can even try to explain this to people in my life. Somehow I imagine that it's going to be a lot more difficult to explain why I'm crying my eyes out after Magneto-Gandalf saves the power rangers from certain death from Venom Frasier and then convinces Frasier to finally take off the black suit.

Gen Z is all in on Fortnite, where Darth Vader and Spiderman have been battling John Wick and Optimus Prime for years now.

I keep telling people “Blindsight is about vampires in space, it’s awesome and you have to read it” but most people just give me a weird look and ignore the advice…

It has vampires in space, but it’s not about vampires in space. It’s a strange book, but if I had to say, I’d say it’s about how intelligence can be divorced from consciousness and how utterly eldrich aliens might be.

Humorously enough there's a Peter Watts essay out there someplace bemoaning how the scramblers ended up as starfish aliens just like how everyone else does their eldritch aliens.

The book clearly does a lot of legwork in the 'third act' to really sell the main thesis. Which is great the first time through, but I think makes subsequent readthroughs less impactful. I however always enjoy about the first two thirds.

As a software developer, I spend a lot of time looking at the increasingly complex behavior (and even downright 'cleverness') of non-conscious entities. So my takeaway is less "life, but not as we know it" and more "YES, just like that, that's exactly what I've been trying to tell people for years." Unfortunately, explaining my day job in terms of Blindsight isn't exactly a step up.

Technically IIRC there's only one vampire in space there?

> crying my eyes out after Magneto-Gandalf saves the power rangers from certain death from Venom Frasier and then convinces Frasier to finally take off the black suit.

If that doesn't make you tear up, you're dead inside. That's my explanation.

It will be like that episode of Star Trek the next generation called darmok.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered, except everyone will have to go through their own Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra with every other person.

Shaka.

taylor swift when the seismometers detected her.

AI Generated Seinfeld was so incredible, it was shut down

I still have my Michael Wave plush

I loved "Nothing, Forever" (here's clips for those that missed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn0iVOtr6FE ) - it would be great to see similar done with Frasier.

The temporary Twitch suspension was due to some of the generated dialogue. I'm not clear if they were forced to remove the Seinfeld stuff? In any case, the new version just doesn't compare: https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing,_Forever

Wait until you see CNN or Fox News in the new world.

"It'll blow your socks clean off clicking sound, wink and gun"

- AI generated Matthew McConaghey, 2033

To be honest, I'd take that over about 90% of what I get on offer now, at least the new stuff. With one condition - no one ever tries to "improve" or "modernize" it.

There's a new Frasier show on paramount+ whatever that is:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14124236/

Codebullet on youtube has been doing AI generated Rick & Morty episodes, complete with animation and voices. They aren’t great, but still pretty impressive.