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Re:AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too... by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:05AM (#40927722)
Remember when the PlayStation 2 was "technically a supercomputer" and taking LSD a certain number of times made you insane? Great moments in marketing history
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Re:AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too... by jayGlow on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:32AM (#40928064)
funnily enough the ps3 was literally a super computer, at least if you hooked up enough of them

https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...

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Re:AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too... by klowner on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:09AM (#40927765)
Oh yeah I vaguely recall news reports about how the PS2 was so powerful it could be used for missile guidance or some nonsense?
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Re:AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too... by abainbridge on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @11:15AM (#40927839)
An article about that from 2000. https://www.theregister.com/2000/04/17/playstation_2_exports...

Brilliantly it says:

Register readers with very long memories indeed will recall similar concerns being raised over Sir Clive Sinclair's ZX-81. The fear then was that the sneaky Sovs would try to buy heaps of ZX-81s for their Zilog Z80-A CPUs and might 1KB RAM to upgrade their nuclear missile guidance systems.

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