jerry seinfeld
More Seinfeld Than Seinfeld Itself
Since the hit sitcom Seinfeld went off the air in 1998 after nine seasons, the show's devoted followers have long mused about an alternate reality: What if the original "show about nothing" had never ended? Now they've gotten what they wished for--well, sort of. In mid-December, a never-ending AI-generated reboot, aptly named Nothing, Forever, launched on the streaming platform Twitch. You could, anyway, until earlier this week, when forever abruptly ended--or was at least briefly interrupted, and in just about the most fitting way imaginable: by the AI scriptwriter devolving into bigotry. Nothing, Forever is powered by Davinci, the newest publicly available version of OpenAI's GPT-3 language model--a close relative of ChatGPT--and although that technology is impressive, the show, in most respects, is not.