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Researchers Build An AI That's Better At Reading Lips Than Humans (bbc.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the just-like-HAL dept.

An anonymous reader quotes the BBC: Scientists at Oxford say they've invented an artificial intelligence system that can lip-read better than humans. The system, which has been trained on thousands of hours of BBC News programs, has been developed in collaboration with Google's DeepMind AI division. "Watch, Attend and Spell", as the system has been called, can now watch silent speech and get about 50% of the words correct. That may not sound too impressive - but when the researchers supplied the same clips to professional lip-readers, they got only 12% of words right...
The system now recognizes 17,500 words, and one of the researchers says, "As it keeps watching TV, it will learn."

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  1. 17 years too late by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

  2. The surveillance state by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The surveillance state is coming in its pants thinking about all the additional conversations they'll be able to monitor now.

    Time to break out the bandannas and cough-masks....soon it'll be fashionable to wear them in public!

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    Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
    1. Re:The surveillance state by fustakrakich · · Score: 3, Insightful

      soon it'll be fashionable to wear them in public!

      And illegal

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      “He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”