I have to give it to Adam Reich and Alexander Richard—you got me with your comedy short, Google Transcript. Let’s just say it snuck up on me, and I’m still laughing.
We start in the middle of nowhere and in the middle of a snowstorm. Life has shut down for the day, and Adam and Alex find themselves warming by the fire with literally nothing to do. Adam breaks the silence by quoting his favorite line from Terminator 2—the one about fate. The problem is that Alex tells him that he got the quote wrong, and corrects him.
“Adam breaks the silence by quoting his favorite line from Terminator 2—the one about fate.”
Adam swears he said it exactly the way Alex said it. This prompts Alex to grab his phone and pull up his Google Transcript app. The app not only has a transcription of the last five minutes, but transcripts from the past several years, including an embarrassing moment with a girl he was interested in. Still skeptical, Alex starts reading about the most awkward moment of his life involving the girl. Still not convinced, Alex demonstrates that the Google Transcript app can predict the future.
This is one of those shorts where you wonder where it’s going, and then you arrive wondering how you got there. Damn you. It’s an example of taking the simple idea of how invasive our phones and AI are—or will be—in our lives, and then running with it. I’m being vague, but comedy is hard to pull off, and Reich and Richard have struck gold.
"…one of the shorts, where you wonder where it's going, and then you arrive wondering how you got there."
