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Digital Research DOS. That's what I called it.

DiRe DOS :)

But Trump says it's fake news!

Seriously, it's going to be a hard uphill battle to convince people this is real and they should vote for policies to fix these issues, rather than keep voting for billionaires.


We have all the voice recordings, feed that into AI along with the extant episodes and it should be able to regenerate (geddit?) the missing episodes.

Somebody spent a small fortune trying this a while ago with disliked results https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/entertainment/ailing-doctor-wh...

They seem to have been pleased with the results:

> “It has to be worth it for the pleasure it’s brought me to see them,” Levine said. “Doctor Who runs all night in my bedroom, complete, nothing missing.”


Ah I mean others disliked the results.

Make up your own mind I suppose, I doubt you will find them rewarding: https://youtu.be/rQabMPpdQnk?si=Fm9Yqj7EwAjYp5np


Well heck - many don't even like the originals at all :p. On the contrary I found these much more enjoyable than the audio and stills! Of course I'd prefer more of the original copies be found... but for now the AI ones fill the gaps in my collection instead of the audio reconstructions.

They animated a lot of the missing pieces of the missing episode Shada with excellent results. If AI could do something of similar quality that would be wonderful.

Do we also have stills of all the episodes? Or only audio?

There are production stills that are used like a slide show and combined with the recorded audio. Certain episodes have been reconstructed using animation such that the basic scene blocking and events are played out alongside the recorded audio.

Feels a bit like Jurassic Park

The risk of the episodes going wild and kill lawyers seems minimal though.

Risk or benefit?

Then what is AI even good for? :(

From a utilitarian pov yes. But that's completely missing the artistic point. Why shoot a film when you could just feed the script into an AI?

It could recreate missing episodes using the extant episodes. That's something worthwhile doing until someone finds them. It's not creating a complete new series.

People want to find the missing episodes because of their historical value as actual human artistic creations, and not because they want to watch a thing that looks like an old missing episode.

There would be as much value in an "AI-recreated" missing episode as there would be in taking the audio of a modern episode and using AI to create a new video track for it.


> People want to find the missing episodes because...

Speak for yourself!


Sorry, no, that is absolutely not something worthwhile spending energy on

Even if it's motion comic level animation, it'd still be nice to see combined with the audio recordings.

Or even train LLM to catch LLMs. Like that old adage, use criminals to catch criminals.

Biden?!

It reminds me of what I used to say whenever I've completed a contract for a client.

"And remember, now that I'm gone, every problem that occurs is my fault. So stop looking for the culprit, find a solution"


They’re referring to this: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/bidens...

The Republicans are even more protectionist and sinophobic, however. Nobody ever had the option to vote for importing Chinese EVs.


I might buy one just to annoy them then.

Remember when Republicans blamed 9/11 on Obama, not remembering that it happened when Bush was president?

FAFO in action.



Now I've seen it all. Time to die.. (meant humourously)

Mr Flibble sends his regrets.


WOPR was the first fictional AI to realise to win is not to play at all.

From the War Games (1983) film.


Colossus/Guardian was the first AI to realize that the humans could be easily coerced by using their own nukes against them.

From the Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) film.


Eighties meet the seventies. : - )


WOPR used reinforcement learning, and could learn from its simulated mistakes. LLMs can't do that without some sort of RL harness. :)


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