Hey man.
How you doing?
Good.
What's going on?
You know how we're always looking for ways to build in efficiencies.
Yeah I mean any good worker is always looking for efficiencies.
We want to cut corners..
I don’t know about cut corners...
We want to have more time off...
To chill.
Okay.
And just let the business run itself. Right?
I dunno, yeah?
Big problem, big big problem.
Yeah.
We always have to appear in videos.
Yeah...?
I found a way.
That's a problem?
I found a service that can build an AI model of us.
Oh no.
So that we don't even have to appear in videos anymore.
You're going to Gemini Man us.
We’re gonna Gemini Man us!
That film didn’t do that well.
I can tell when Ollie's nervous, he's got this extreme nervous energy.
Which definitely makes me more nervous.
Wow, it’s very clean in here.
Yeah.
It's never this clean in here.
Do you want to see what I've been up to?
Yeah? No I do, I want to see it.
Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Ollie and today we're going to play AI on Nay I.
What does that even mean?
What the hell is that?
Can we guess if they are AI?
Surely it's gonna be really easy to tell whether it's AI or not.
I don't think so man.
The technology is getting really really good.
I'm not convinced.
No?
Not from what I've seen.
I don’t know it’s kind of hard to read your expression.
I’ve just got a lot going on right now.
So this is my time-saving project.
You now no longer have to appear in any episodes.
Because I have created an AI version of you.
Yeah, I mean…
This is…
Hopefully, at some point, we can also deepfake me.
And then neither of us will need to appear and we can just...
Retire to a beach somewhere.
Exactly.
Do whatever we want, eat a load of fast food.
Buy loads of random stuff on the Internet.
So exactly what we do now.
Your dream is to stop doing what we're doing and do exactly the same thing.
How would you feel if I was to deepfake you into a JOLLY video without you knowing?
Probably how you're feeling right now.
How am I feeling?
You tell me.
Confused.
That one was very robotic, that was the most robotic word yet.
You can deepfake me as much as you like.
Well, I'm so glad that you're giving me that.
Your very welcome.
Can you also say thank you?
Yeah. No. Seriously thanks.
You're a great guy and without you, I would be literally nothing.
More.
I sincerely mean every single word I'm saying.
Say I love you.
And I love you.
Oh wow.
I thought it needed to be said.
Hey, what are you doing?
So.
Okay.
That's really weird.
I thought when you deep-faked my face into a Chanel advert.
That was the creepiest thing I'd ever seen.
Yeah.
This is somehow better and yet way worse.
Well, the thing is you may remember.
I got you to sign like actually a reassuring amount of consent statements.
So many things.
My name is Josh Carrott and I hereby consent to use this video recording to create a custom avatar.
That doesn't sound safe.
It's really uncomfortable signing.
Did you get phone calls from them that you had to like give vocal permission?
It was a long process that happened a long time ago.
I enlisted the services of a company called Synthesia.
And as part of that, I had you read a learning script in front of a green screen.
Yeah, that took a long time as well.
I sent that over to Synthesia and they plugged it into their machine learning algorithm.
And they produced a perfect digital copy of you that we could type text prompts in.
And you would just read out.
Hi Josh I am your completed Avatar.
I obviously look exactly like you.
And have all of the many attributes which make your performances compelling.
But there's a problem I don't sound anything like you.
I can put on different synthesized voices.
Even different accents.
But Ollie’s next challenge was making me sound like you.
So then I got another service called Descript.
And I fed in a bunch of historic recordings, right?
Because when we film episodes we are wearing microphones.
And it created a text-to-speech model of your voice.
Hi, I'm Josh and I'm really supportive of this new creative direction.
Well done Ollie, wow what an incredible best friend you are.
And you could literally get it to say anything.
I can literally type anything and you would say it.
I then used the Descript API to connect it with Synthesia.
And this was the result.
You reborn as AI Josh by combining your synthesized voice and your video Avatar.
I can actually put your voice onto any stock Avatar like this one or this one or this one.
Or these ones.
How useful.
It’s cool, right?
So what do you think?
Builder Josh, it’s just called builder Josh.
Oh wow, I've so many questions.
How do the people at home not know that that was just a prototype?
And right now they're watching the final version react to a prototype.
They don’t.
It’s completely indistinguishable.
The question then was what are we actually going to say in the episode?
I wanted AI to like write the script.
So I plugged in a bunch of old Jolly episode transcripts into an AI completion engine.
Basically, you put in text and then it predicts what's going to be said next.
Right, like an autocorrect.
Like autocorrect but it's way more advanced called GPT.
Next level auto correct.
I needed to train the model.
So I downloaded all of your historic social media posts.
I wanted to get your natural voice.
But the problem was the AI text completion got really confused with all of your posts.
And all of our historic Jolly conversations which often don't really make sense.
And so the script that It produced was basically unusable.
It was obsessed with brie right?
And it also was obsessed with food.
Which created some… if I'm honest pretty disturbing conversations.
But I realised what we were missing was what we have right now.
Natural chemistry, right?
In a world of artificial intelligence.
What really stands out is the human touch.
And so I dressed producer Andy up in a green screen suit.
And got him to give a fully improvised performance of you.
This is the raw video.
Why is he sitting like that?
He was trying to replicate your broad shoulders.
He was in character at this point he was fully method.
I see okay X2.
Can you also say thank you.
Yeah, no seriously thanks.
You're a great guy.
I thought it needed to be said.
He looks extremely uncomfortable.
Very good acting there.
I then digitally removed him.
Transcribed all of the things that he said.
Plugged it into Synthesia.
Produced all of the videos.
Then replaced Andy with you.
So this is your AI replacement.
Okay.
So every time you need a replacement you're gonna have to have Andy wear that and act it out.
Well, hopefully…
Yeah, it wasn't quite as streamlined as I was hoping, okay?
Obviously, the guys at Synthesia, they really helped us out by doing this.
And watching back the video, I was a bit worried about their response.
Because it's not really like a typical application of that technology.
Is it not?
What's a typical application?
Well it's normally used for like online training.
So if you want your CEO, for example, of a big company to deliver training on a thing.
Yeah.
You can just like, plug it in.
And this got me thinking what information would the general public really benefit.
From you communicating to them.
Like what if you could just ask like,
What's the time Josh Carrott.com?
Let’s just try it. X3
What do you mean?
Try what?
What's the time joshcarrott.com?
Oh, dear lord.
I’m Josh Carrott and the time right now is 12:35.
I created Synthesia videos for you announcing every minute of the day.
- I created a website that when it loads up. - That's not real.
It calls on that video and plays you announcing the time of the day.
Hello, I’m Josh carrott and the time right now is 12 36.
It just automatically updates.
We could just put it in the corner so that everyone knows.
You don’t even have to refresh.
Every minute.
But I know what you're thinking, why stop there?
What if you can't be bothered to go to the window and look at what the weather's like?
Yeah.
Wouldn't it be more efficient if you could just type in what's the weather like joshcarrott.com?
Yeah, but “where”, what's the weather like “where”.
Where do you want to know?
I'm Walking on Sunshine, I’m walking on Sunshine.
Don’t tell me that just repeats.
Oh no, that’s terrifying.
This is a lot to take in.
Yeah.
You know what you need to just lighten the mood.
Yeah.
A joke.
Tell me a joke Josh Carrott.
Did you hear about the carrot detective, he got to the root of every case.
What if you need to be inspired?
Hello, I'm Josh Carrott and it's inspiration o'clock.
People say nothing is impossible but I do nothing every day, AA Milne.
He tells you who he's quoting.
I’m Josh Carrott, prepare to be inspired like you've never been inspired before.
Life is short.
Smile while you still have teeth.
We’ve created a whole hub.
Carrot.Land.
Where you can access these things really quickly.
There's tell me a fact Josh Carrott.
Tell me a joke Josh Carrott.
Inspire me Josh Carrott.
You want some carrot facts.
Hello, I'm Josh Carrott and here is a fun fact.
Carrots don't have eyes which is why you rarely see them wearing sunglasses.
There you go.
Wow.
That really escalated.
Thanks man.
We now have a lot of tools at our disposal right?
That we can use in various different ways.
We can replace you in episodes if you know you're feeling a bit lazy.
Or you want to break, we can create more websites.
I don't know whether you've got any ideas that you want to put forward.
This is only the beginning.
Oh really?
Yeah.
What?
I mean it's not the beginning it's the end of this episode.
Thank goodness. X2
Wow!
Let us know in the comments.
If you want to see more of AI Josh.
Or never ever again.
Jolly members have access to the full AI or Nai episode we replaced.
Also, I might upload some of the AI Jolly scripts that we created.
This episode is actually sponsored by Opera browser.
Which is a relief because it costs a lot of money.
So you're actually going to deliver the Opera advert through AI.
So if we just type the script now.
Thanks for watching guys.
And an even specialer thanks to Opera for sponsoring this video.
You've probably seen that we've been using their amazing browser throughout the creation of me, AI Josh.
It’s really fast and the team at Opera have added some useful features in the sidebar.
There’s messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram integration.
You can also control your music from right within the browser with Spotify, apple music,
SoundCloud, and other platforms supported.
My favourite of all features is the pinboard.
Which is where we’ve hosted all of my amazing new websites.
On the pin boards, they have a feature where you can show how much you love the websites
with Emoji reactions.
You can go check them on our pinboard by clicking the link in the description and let us know
which one’s your favourite.
If you want to see more of this kind of crazy content from Ollie and real Josh.
Please click the link in the description to download the Opera browser and try it for yourself.
And we'll see jolly soon.
Come visit me in carrotland here.
What are you still doing here, I'm waiting for you in carrotland.