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Meta showcases new lifelike avatars that can speak and sound like you
News 9 Live ^ | 5/2/23 | Tech Desk

Posted on 06/11/2023 5:10:25 PM PDT by Callahan

Meta researchers first revealed their Codec-Avatars four years ago in 2019. These avatars were futuristic, photorealistic and three-dimensional. In 2022, researchers improved the technology and demonstrated Meta MUGSY, which allowed users to create these lifelike avatars by simply scanning their faces on an iPhone, as opposed to earlier when creating such an avatar requires over 100 cameras. Now, in 2023, the researchers at Meta have taken the Codec avatars another step forwards. They will reportedly soon be able to learn to speak like you and even sounds like you.

As per a tweet shared by AI Breakfast, the new tech will employ a large language model (LLM) that can be trained to speak like you. It will also come with text-to-voice support that will be able to mimic how you sound in real life.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ar; deepfake; technology; virtual; vr
When Apple showed the face scanned digital twin for FaceTime using the Apple Vision Pro it immediately reminded me of this. The stuff they showed in the demo as far as creating a lifelike avatar has already been well-surpassed by Meta in the lab and I’m sure Apple is planning stuff on this level as well. That much closer to the Matrix.
1 posted on 06/11/2023 5:10:25 PM PDT by Callahan
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To: Callahan

See shark. Jump.


2 posted on 06/11/2023 5:11:35 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Callahan

“Sir, we have video of you threatening to kill the president. It’s clearly you. Don’t deny it. I’m afraid you’ll have to come with us.”


3 posted on 06/11/2023 5:12:57 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: Callahan

What could go wrong?


4 posted on 06/11/2023 5:20:47 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Callahan

People won’t know what’s real and what’s not. All part of Satan’s plan.


5 posted on 06/11/2023 5:21:09 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Works both ways. “Your honor, that’s not my client shown robbing that store on that surveillance video. It’s a Codec avatar of him, maliciously created by evil computer nerds.”


6 posted on 06/11/2023 5:22:44 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Callahan

I recognize this. It is marketing, posing as news. After all, if avatars can pose as individuals, then the media can pretend to “report” while busying themselves with marketing. A little like paid “product placement” in film and television. Or politics. News — or fiction — at eleven.


7 posted on 06/11/2023 5:27:48 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Callahan

Oh NO! I better cancel my FB, Instagram, twatter, snapchat..... Oh, wait. I have none. Oh well. Hey meta....🖕


8 posted on 06/11/2023 5:30:02 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: Callahan

Yeah, I think I will sit out of the metaverse.


9 posted on 06/11/2023 5:32:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: Callahan
I think Biden is safe from imitators
10 posted on 06/11/2023 5:42:38 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: beethovenfan

The best defense is Jesus Christ.


11 posted on 06/11/2023 5:43:42 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Larry Lucido

What could go wrong?

Xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jack Smith could get his hands on it.


12 posted on 06/11/2023 5:47:29 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: Callahan

Oh boy. What won’t go wrong with this...talk about Pandora’s box.


13 posted on 06/11/2023 6:02:09 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: No name given

Best post of the day!


14 posted on 06/11/2023 6:08:16 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Callahan

I’m inimitable.


15 posted on 06/11/2023 6:12:02 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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