I’m not sure I’d ever heard The Carpenter’s version of this song, and it’s fascinating how much better I like the Kermit version.
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I’m not sure I’d ever heard The Carpenter’s version of this song, and it’s fascinating how much better I like the Kermit version. The Carpenter’s version is super ethereal. Kermit’s sounds more real to me, more grounded, a faith that things will go well in spite of the pains that he knows from experience often come with reality.
How strange that a felt puppet feels more real to me than people. But of course, that’s Jim Henson in there that I’m connecting with.
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I’m not sure I’d ever heard The Carpenter’s version of this song, and it’s fascinating how much better I like the Kermit version. The Carpenter’s version is super ethereal. Kermit’s sounds more real to me, more grounded, a faith that things will go well in spite of the pains that he knows from experience often come with reality.
How strange that a felt puppet feels more real to me than people. But of course, that’s Jim Henson in there that I’m connecting with.
️It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
️The fact that they stay in character bumps them up a notch. Muppets stay in character backstage, between takes. Amazing.
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
️I sorta fixate on a few sayings and "the artist embraces the
constraints of their medium" is one of them. It sure does
apply to the muppets! I can tear up watching a hand in a sock
And I don't feel weird at all about it. Art speaks to
something in us. Maybe it's something we can't pin down,
but AI does not speak to that part of us.
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
️@MythingPerson im not crying your crying
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
️@MythingPerson nodds in agreement
Also said Muppets and espechally the "Sesame Street" ones actually do convey some valuable messages.
- They may be artifical and obviously not human, but they are way more relateable on an emotional and factual level.
- Maybe it's because they ain't beibg sold as new omnipotent beings we must pray towards or get killed by once they achieve said omnipotence…
- They may be artifical and obviously not human, but they are way more relateable on an emotional and factual level.
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
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@MythingPerson Muppets are far more human than Republicans/ReformUK or TechBros.
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
️@MythingPerson excellent point. But we repeatedly (even conversing 1:1) forget they’re artifice.
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
️@MythingPerson That right there is Jenson's Impact
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It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.
AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.
Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.
Henson & Co ftw.
️@MythingPerson The only thing the Hensons ever did wrong was sell to Disney. (And the fact that he refused to sell the CTW side means in his heart he knew it was a bad idea.)
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