Robot Blacksmiths

[@frankheger5185]

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[@howbigisyourlove]

holy .. and unholy crap I can't believe I FOUND a tribe member in c'ford .. sweet

[@Wolfyjinny]

Interesting that you should say "if you can't tell you're talking to a robot you're still talking to a robot" that made me stop and think as I was working on something while the video was playing and could not see the screen, it's funny how you know something is scripted as you listen to it, I had to stop and check to see if I was being duped by an algorithm because it didn't sound natural. (please, no offence meant). So what is a 'fake' ? the dictionary tells us it's a :-forgery, counterfeit, copy, sham, fraud, hoax, imitation, mock-up, dummy, reproduction, lookalike or something of inferior quality.... if you take a painting by one of the masters in oils then reproduce it - it takes far more skill than the master had to recreate the bumps and ridges in the oils because the master had only the visual aspect in mind, and in blacksmithing... would one be producing 'fakes' if you have not drawn out the pig iron and mixed in carbon to create an alloy to get your steel oneself? or if one use any type of powered item or did it under electric light would it be a fake? we live in a progressive world and have to roll with the times, as you said earlier in the video, people get hung up on the romanticism of blacksmithing, what they don't realise is they have to pick a specific date and area, I live not far from the heart of the Black Country in the UK where most of the worlds ironmongery was forged at one point in time, a quarter mile from me in a now very urban road are the remains of a home nail maker shop that the fires only went out in 1940 (way after the industrial revolution) because he could not afford the power hammer to produce the quantity and quality of nails required for society's needs and as this was his mainstay he had to stop and look at other trades. Today 'the blacksmith' is a couple of machines that can roll, flatten, bend, weld and polish with some old bean standing there passing the material to-and-fro, all this whilst doing it at a greater speed and with less cost. I love to see the old tradition of smithing and the skills involved so keep on doing what you do and do not let any old duffer like me take anything away from your craft, more power to you good sir for taking on an old trade and making it work for you. Stay safe and carry on forging.

[@morlockcult]

You saying I talk funny? Not scripted exactly, working off point form notes. If I extemporize it would be 40 minutes and never actually get to the point. I was really only thinking of the creative impulse itself, questions of process and requisite skill aside. I've got a lot to say about that, too. Later.

[@Wolfyjinny]

No offence meant, talking on camera or radio is a skill in itself, I used to work at a radio station and the amount of people that start off a half hour chat sounding like Stephen Hawking was amazing.

[@morlockcult]

None taken. What gets me are the number of people who want to know what my accent is. "Uh... Canadian?" "Yeah, but where did you grow up?" "Northern Ontario?" "Oh - by the way you sound I thought you were British/German/Swedish/Hungarian"

[@Wolfyjinny]

Your voice reminds me of a young Clancy Brown cross with Waylon Jennings, I kept expecting to hear the old General Lee pull up outside' I used to love to try and work out where someone was from via their accent but I have just realised that after watching KZbin for so long I barely realise that someone has an accent, I'm from Birmingham UK and have what has been voted the worst accent on earth so every accent is melodic and interesting to me.

[@ntlasanga4267]

You need to come back and address all this AI stuff