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Fake Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs AI-Powered Interview Freaks Out the Internet
https://www.newsweek.com ^ | 10/12/22 | BY SIMONE CARTER

Posted on 10/16/2022 8:21:57 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

pple co-founder Steve Jobs died more than a decade ago, but a new artificial intelligence-powered podcast has brought him back to life in a fake interview—prompting the internet to respond with both horror and awe.

A recent episode of podcast.ai pairs Jobs with Joe Rogan, whose own podcast The Joe Rogan Experience has been a runaway success.

Syed Hammad Ahmed is one of the founders of podcast.ai and play.ht, which powers the podcast's voices. He wrote to Newsweek that after recently building a "Generative AI Voice model called Peregrine," they wanted to exhibit its proficiency in speech generation.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ai; apocalypse; bloggers; cyberfakes; death; deepfake; destruction; joerogan; rogan; simonecarter; stevejobs; superstition

1 posted on 10/16/2022 8:21:57 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Pretty slick presentation, though obviously edited. It would be much more impressive if done in real time.

I heard a bunch of stuff Jobs had said in previous interviews, and the voice didn’t really sound like him. Not bad though, I guess.


2 posted on 10/16/2022 8:57:20 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: DarrellZero

I’m looking forward to the “DoodleBob talks to Milton Friedman” podcast.


3 posted on 10/16/2022 9:11:17 PM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: RomanSoldier19

steves back.. in pod form...


4 posted on 10/16/2022 9:26:10 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Silly parlor trick. Ricky Jay was far more entertaining.
5 posted on 10/16/2022 9:31:08 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

How does he do that?


6 posted on 10/17/2022 2:11:22 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

It is a good start and someday it will be perfected.
And then anarchy commences, you will not be able to believe anything for sure anymore.


7 posted on 10/17/2022 4:38:44 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: RomanSoldier19

Steve Jobs truth paraphrased: “Few people have any interest in EARNING a billion dollars. What people want is to SPEND a billion dollars”.


8 posted on 10/17/2022 7:12:33 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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