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Google's Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans (qz.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Quartz: A research paper published by Google this month -- which has not been peer reviewed -- details a text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2, which claims near-human accuracy at imitating audio of a person speaking from text. The system is Google's second official generation of the technology, which consists of two deep neural networks. The first network translates the text into a spectrogram (pdf), a visual way to represent audio frequencies over time. That spectrogram is then fed into WaveNet, a system from Alphabet's AI research lab DeepMind, which reads the chart and generates the corresponding audio elements accordingly. The Google researchers also demonstrate that Tacotron 2 can handle hard-to-pronounce words and names, as well as alter the way it enunciates based on punctuation. For instance, capitalized words are stressed, as someone would do when indicating that specific word is an important part of a sentence. Quartz has embedded several different examples in their report that feature a sentence generated by AI along with a sentence read aloud from a human hired by Google. Can you tell which is the AI generated sample?
Robocalls! :-D
Duuuuude, it's AI!!!! Everything you can label "AI" gets a shit ton of page views.
Even my doorbell has AI in it, because it rings when it "knows" someone is at the door looking for me.
Words matter, caveman. What we are calling "AI" is definitely artificial, not not intelligent. If we are going to start calling computer programs "AI" just to start another VC hype cycle, then what is the point? Microsoft Word is "AI".
Everyone is going to call it AI, though.
Everyone can be wrong, of course, but who loses in normal conversation? The Average Joe or a pedant?
I'm sure the technology will be referred to in the correct terms by the people who use and probably invented the correct terms. For everyone else, there's AI.
One thing that seems to be missing from all of these is a programmatic understanding of how much air is in the lungs.
"Alexa, what is 69! (factorial)"
Listen in amazment as she rhymes off the number but then enter the uncanney valley about the time she should be taking a breath...
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
Dude, the proper definition of AI is obvious - It's whatever computers can't yet do.