Hold your companion cube close as Sam, Chris and John test their [insert skill here] with the Portal video game AI supervillain – for science!

Transcript

ADTEMPTED – adtempt 002 – GLaDOS • 43:38

John Fish  00:00

Hey, Chris, have you have you heard from Sam yet? We need to get started. We need to go. 

Robot Sam  00:05

I am here.

Chris Hanna  00:06

Oh shit Sam turned himself into a robot!

John Fish  00:09

Hasn’t Sam always been a robot or have I just not noticed?

Robot Sam  00:13

I have concluded that the most efficient way to advertise insert product here was to remove human error.

Chris Hanna  00:21

Well, let’s hope that robot Sam is programmed with more empathy than today’s product. Otherwise we might be the next errors he removes.

John Fish  00:29

Hey, robot Sam, can you make your voice sound a little bit more like human Sam?

Sam McKinney  00:35

How does this sound?

John Fish  00:38

Okay, close enough. Welcome back to AD tempted where we make ads for things that don’t really need them. I’m john and i write things. 

Sam McKinney  00:47

I’m Sam and I experiment with art.

Chris Hanna  00:50

I’m Chris and I write copy in exchange for cake.

John Fish  00:52

We may not have a special guest today, but we do have a very special product that we cannot wait to dive into. So Here’s the plan. We’re going to go around and share some thought starters. And then we’ll collaborate on a campaign, execute it and finally present it to you, our audience. What’s the product today, Sam?

Sam McKinney  01:12

Today we’re doing GLaDOS or genetic live form and disk operating system from the portal video game series. She is the talking AI supercomputer who runs a massive scientific research facility in the game. She is as intelligent as she is snarky and programmed to create and run manipulative problem solving experiments on humans and robots. Once plugged in she can mass produce things like killer robots and neurotoxin, but her most deadly trait is her insults. Think of her as a more witty, passive aggressive version of Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey. The target today is Gen pop, mainly because why wouldn’t we market this to an average human? Why wouldn’t we? It’d be fun.

GLaDOS  01:54

before we start However, keep in mind that although fun and learning are the primary goals of all Enrichment Center activities, serious injuries may occur.

Chris Hanna  02:05

Alrighty, john, what do you got for us?

John Fish  02:07

All right. So, ai with a human touch, let’s face it, AI is going to kill us all. So we’re going to create something that will kill us. Why not make it a little bit more human? With all the wit and narcissism of your typical American, obviously a little more narcissistic than not, with GLaDOS, it will surely wipe us out. But it will be nice to have the human touch. And basically, with this idea, just kind of like Siri and Alexa are so robotic, and they’re so polite. You can call them whatever you want, and they’ll respond with. “That’s not very nice.” Whereas this OS will respond with, “Yeah, okay, that’s not very nice,” but it’s also going to be probably plotting to kill you. So I think it’s just an interesting way to look at AI and Potentially get us to a more interesting space in the AI realm. 

Sam McKinney  03:06

It would be a fun way to get killed by a robot. It’d be very enjoyable. I’d laughed the whole way.

Chris Hanna  03:12

1001 ways to die via GLaDOS.

Sam McKinney  03:16

Yeah, it’d be hilarious.

Chris Hanna  03:19

Up until the very last moment.

John Fish  03:23

We’re kind of in a race right no