{"id":188519,"date":"2024-05-02T04:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/lou-reeds-widow-resurrected-him-as-an-ai-sadly-addicted-to-talking-to-it"},"modified":"2024-05-02T04:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T09:22:39","slug":"lou-reeds-widow-resurrected-him-as-an-ai-sadly-addicted-to-talking-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/lou-reeds-widow-resurrected-him-as-an-ai-sadly-addicted-to-talking-to-it","title":{"rendered":"Lou Reed\u2019s Widow Resurrected Him as an AI, \u201cSadly Addicted\u201d to Talking to It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KGZWb1SIiR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since before ChatGPT was even a thing, Laurie Anderson, the widow and longtime collaborator of the late Lou Reed, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner \u2014 and now, she\u2019s hooked.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/feb\/28\/laurie-anderson-ai-chatbot-lou-reed-ill-be-your-mirror-exhibition-adelaide-festival\" class=\"\">new interview with <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, the 76-year-old experimental artist who just won a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/laurie-anderson-grammy-lifetime-achievement-award-interview-1235896618\/\" class=\"\">Lifetime Achievement<\/a>\u201d award at this year\u2019s Grammys acknowledged the outrageousness of her regular conversations with an AI built to mimic her superstar husband that died a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I really do not think I\u2019m talking to my dead husband and writing songs with him \u2014 I really don\u2019t,\u201d she said. \u201cBut people have styles, and they can be replicated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since before ChatGPT was even a thing, Laurie Anderson, the widow and longtime collaborator of the late Lou Reed, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner \u2014 and now, she\u2019s hooked. In a new interview with The Guardian, the 76-year-old experimental artist who just won a \u201cLifetime Achievement\u201d award at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}