Posted on 06/24/2022 6:50:56 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
At its annual re:Mars conference today in Las Vegas, Amazon’s Senior Vice President and Head Scientist for Alexa, Rohit Prasad, announced a spate of new and upcoming features for the company’s smart assistant. The most head turning of the bunch was a potential new feature that can synthesize short audio clips into longer speech.
In the scenario presented at the event, the voice of a deceased loved one (a grandmother, in this case), is used to read a grandson a bedtime story. Prasad notes that, using the new technology, the company is able to accomplish some very impressive audio output using just one minute of speech.
“This required inventions where we had to learn to produce a high-quality voice with less than a minute of recording versus hours of recording in the studio,” the executive notes. “The way we made it happen is by framing the problem as a voice conversion task and not a speech generation path. We are unquestionably living in the golden era of AI, where our dreams and science fictions are becoming a reality.”
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Thank God I dont use alexa or any other “smrtcrap” devices.
“And remember Johnny, don’t trust that Donald Trump fella. I’ve been around a long time, and I can spot a Nazi when I see one, so don’t listen to that man. Sweet dreams.”
Think of all the realistic fake quotes the media can create now. They can synthesize the entire back channel communications between Trump and Putin. No need to even fake out the FISA court to get illegal eavesdropping privileges hoping to score something useful. Just have AI fake it all.
I don’t want it. Many is the time I was ‘glad’ certain late family members were not still alive so they would find out about my latest questionable decision in leading my life.
I know this Alexa feature is nothing mysterious, but it’s close enough.
Talk about putting words into someone’s mouth!
That doesn't mean alexa or any other "smrtcrap" devices aren't using you.
Every computer or smartphone you own is listening to you 24/7.
The only way to avoid it is to own none.
really? with her German accent???
Gee, this is totally normal. It’s not demonic at all. This is all just fine. /S
Ok, as long as they don’t involve my whiskey drinkin’ grandma beating , grandad.
Pretty soon they won’t be paying Hollywood superstars millions to make movies. They can do visuals with CGI, have an AI read the script, and if the public finds the new “actor” likable enough, he can stay 25 forever and make movies for 100 years without really costing much of anything.
In reality nobody will ever truly "die" a thought both amazing and terrifying.
That would be a miracle, because all my grandparents died before I was born.
“In reality nobody will ever truly “die” a thought both amazing and terrifying.”
There was/is a TV series (Netflix?) about this, where all of your information is contained on a chip. Well, only for the rich folks that can afford it.
I forget now, but they will engage in risky stuff, and if they die they just have their chip installed into a new person. I think they get poor people to offer up their bodies and they pay the poor person’s family off. (I might be way off on that - it has been awhile!)
Santa cries every time he sees you - ahem - "having fun by yourself."
Regards,
“Better watch out. Better not cry!”
That’s not creepy at all. /s
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
How do those ping packets carry enough data to represent audio?
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