I recently saw the new commercial for Google Pixel 8 which highlights the device’s AI-enhanced “best-take” application feature. You can watch it here […] My first response was to laugh, modestly but not quite quietly. There is an Office episode (season 2, episode 21) in which Michael Scott does the same thing with photoshop. The result (which is the featured image above) is less than impressive.
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In a talk I gave on “The Office” earlier this week I suggested that this convicting and humorous force of awkwardness works in the show like the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was sent into the world, after all, to bring “conviction concerning sin, righteousness, and judgement” (Jn. 16:8). A chief part of what occurs in those uncomfortable awkward silences is a convicting work.
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