Jar Jar Binks might have been an intergalactic pariah in 1999, but it seems like George Lucas — and Ahmed Best, who brought the clumsy Gungan to life — got the last laugh.

For the record, Lucas knew all along that the world would eventually warm up to Jar Jar. As the shepherd of the Star Wars saga, he’s seen countless characters face backlash, only to be embraced by the fandom years later. When the hate against Jar Jar was at its zenith, Lucas assured Best that it would all blow over eventually.

“Thirty years from now, nobody’s going to be talking about this,” Best recalls Lucas saying at the time. “It was tough to realize that in the moment, but now here we are, 25 years later, and he was right.”

In a conversation with Inverse, Best looks back on his contributions to the Star Wars saga, and how they’ve resonated (for better or worse) throughout the industry.

ChatGPT 4 may still be relatively new, but OpenAI is already iterating with an upgrade that can respond as quickly as humans do in normal conversation. The company showed off GPT-4o in a live demo, showing off its ability to use your phone’s camera to solve math equations and deliver a much more conversational voice assistant experience.

While we only have the event demo to go off of, GPT-4o looks impressive. It doesn’t even have to wait for you to finish your request and can roll with interruptions mid-prompt, bringing one step closer to living out Her in real life.