Judge Judy is still the smartest voice on TV — even as an AI baby

AI takes big baby steps So the world’s wizards have caught up with the world’s A-1 wise ass. Me, I turn on my computer. Check my messages.

Comes a familiar voice. The highest paid voice on TV . Having just spent a week together in her home — I’m familiar with the sound.



It last graciously told me: “You owe me $12 for what you lost in gin.” I don’t understand. She’s now in LA.

Me, New York. I look around. I realize she’s not in my broom closet.

My Yorkie’s barking. Even he knows you don’t eff with Judge Judy. It’s definitely her voice.

Her cadence. Her phraseology. Her words.

Her exact sound. Same robes as Judy’s. With same collar, same earrings.

But a baby. It’s spouting proper phrases like discussing a parole officer. Talking about drunken people.

Sitting at a judicial desk. This intelligence is coming out of an infant character — same robe, same outfit. The image speaks not as a child but with the exact voice, substance and phraseology of an adult Judge Judy Sheindlin.

All, totally, completely AI generated. Scary. For some, it’s magic.

Magnificent. Thrilling. For others, frightening.

Now replaceable by some crappy mobile phone instead of a producer who once had to shell out big money for VIP actors. Feast day for nonnas Mother’s Day story. Senior lady dining with a friend at the Upper East Side’s Canaletto .

Her driver’s off for the holiday. No car. No taxis visible.

Elvis, owner of the Italian restaurant, picks up her check, orders her an Uber and pays for it. Nice, loving, thoughtful grandmother’s day gift. Sit down for this Fewer bones are flying into or out of NYC.

Planes — even from our few still functioning airports — are not full. Both to and from Europe had the identical experience. Passengers were warned not to change seats from their officially assigned ones to another now unoccupied one.

Do Not! change seats was the cockpit warning. Seems the light passenger load was affecting the carrier’s mobility since the aircraft wasn’t balanced correctly. An appraisal Construction experts complain that today’s new glossy buildings might — in some cases — lack perfection.

Things break, don’t work, need replacement. Not all workers are super-pros. The non-union — knowing too little, earning too much with a union carpenter getting $130 per hour — it’s now do it fast, do it quiet and do it cheap.

And when can New Yorkers be rid of the endless scaffolding? Never . It’s safety for whatever’s falling down. It’s cheaper than a lawsuit.

There’s nobody to stop it. Construction boss: “Guys now hide their plates so congestion cameras can’t get them. A union carpenter gets $130 per hour.

It’s $18 on the George Washington bridge. It’s $9 in the city. Greed is the problem.

Just going to check on my jobs I’m already out $27.” So this successful guy, born in a filthy neighborhood, an eighth-floor walk-up, no heat, no hot water, has never forgotten those humble days. Once a year he goes back to that dreadful slum — to visit his wife and children.

Only in New York, kids, only in New York..