It's already useful

Post #442,870 by drook 3/31/23 8:21:24 PM 3/31/23 8:21:24 PM Reply	It's already useful I just listened to Seth Godin's latest podcast. He trained GPT-4 on the entirety of his blog and created a personal chatbot. He asked it several questions - the answers to be in-the-style-of him - and the entire podcast was just him reading the answers. It clearly wasn't the most inspired writing, but little to give away that it wasn't human generated. Then at the end he revealed that he didn't read it, either. The entire episode was narrated by a language model of his voice. I didn't have a clue. It was entirely believable. tl;dr We can already generate reasonable answers based on specific people and have it narrated in their voice. -- Drew
Post #442,871 by malraux 3/31/23 10:36:16 PM 3/31/23 10:36:17 PM Reply	The copied voices are ok But if you know the person's voice well, or if you listen to them side by side, the difference is obvious. I'm not saying that won't fool a lot of people, just that it can be detected at this point. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #442,872 by drook 4/1/23 5:29:35 AM 4/1/23 5:29:35 AM Reply	It's already effectively passing the Turing test Tell someone, "Listen closely to this and tell me if it's a person or synthesized," and you'll probably get a bunch who can tell ... as well as a bunch of false positives on the real people. But play it without prompting them to expect it and I think it's very unlikely anyone would notice. At least for non-dramatic reading of straight information. -- Drew
Post #442,873 by malraux 4/1/23 12:24:06 PM 4/1/23 12:24:06 PM Reply	As I said, it will fool a lot of people There are companies like play.ht that can do similar things, and in multiple languages. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #442,874 by drook 4/1/23 3:10:16 PM 4/1/23 3:10:17 PM Reply	Not Welsh, I'll bet :-D -- Drew
Post #442,875 by malraux 4/1/23 3:39:24 PM 4/1/23 3:39:24 PM Reply	You'd lose that bet. https://play.ht/text-to-speech-voices/british-welsh/ Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #442,876 by drook 4/1/23 4:43:11 PM 4/1/23 4:43:11 PM Reply	Well that's incomprehensible But then, it's a different language. -- Drew

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