Nice job.  Nice family memory.

My copy of Microsoft Word 2010 doesn't always pick up the grammar error using affect and effect.

No grammar error in Word:
He affected an Irish accent.
He effected an Irish accent

Grammar error detected in Word:
His language skills had no effect on his success.
His language skills had no affect on his success.

It is heavy. And thin enough for the printer.  Works out well.  Nice effect. Or is that affect?  I forget.

Yipes.  I first used a Sony PortaPak in about 1967 while a grad student at UCLA.    Talk about analogue.  There was no way to edit that stuff. It was 1/2" I think but later on it was 1" .. Not sure. But it was helical scan so you couldn't physically edited the tape as it generated a horrible roll bar as the helican scan caught up.  But it did give us a "cheap" way to shoot.  It was B&W but it was sound and picture.  We learned to do "optical transfer add-on edits" in our TV studio which had a 2" broadcast standard VCR.  I shot something like 30 hours on a particular documentary, did the laborious "add-on"editing in the studio and the show aired on our local PBS station.  Nifty.

The trick is that AI's need electricity.  In this sense they do "eat". The power requirements are going to be substantial when AI is running the world, and there are literally millions of them.  The costs will not be "peanuts".

This is my latest video piece.  ChatGPT helped me write the script. 

It also uses "text to speech" and "speech to speech".

I think it shows what can be done using these new technologies and a green screen.

Phone Phobia .. 7 min. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX8uGeAwM9s

That's impressive.

Here's what Bing had to say on this subject.

My prompt:  If one said I will meet you here just after midnight on Monday, would it be Tuesday when you meet?

Copilot Responded:  If someone says they will meet you just after midnight on Monday, the actual meeting time would be early Tuesday morning. This is because midnight marks the beginning of a new day, so when the clock strikes midnight on Monday, it becomes Tuesday.

I assure you Eric, we are already there with voice.  Famous people who have loads of their voice (well recorded) in public can be voice cloned in a matter of a day or two.  I'm talking expertly cloned so its near impossible to tell.  I've just starting using a program that does a decent job of voice cloning in a few minutes if you have a clean recording to start.

It's early days. But the whole thing is mind blowing.  It's hard to find uses for this kind of thing?  But I'm sure it will get better and better and uses will be discovered.   One use that my wife has is to identify plants in her garden.  When something blows in on the wind and starts to grow in the garden (a volunteer), she takes a picture and finds out what it is.  Or so she thinks. 

I think bird watchers can now identify birds this way.

I remember growing up in Dayton, Ohio.  More or less the mid west -- bible belt.  It was the 1950's. Rock and roll was born.  I was hooked.  I thought Buddy Holly walked on water and Danny and the Juniors were the greatest! 

I remember one old guy (likely he was about 50) telling me that Rock and Roll was just a phase. It would not be around long.  I promised him I would never get tired of the greatness of Chuck Berry -- Fats Domino -- Elvis -- etc. etc. 

I am going to be 80 next month.  All I can say is ROCK ON !!! and stay healthy!