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https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/23/23179748/amazon-alexa-feature-mimic-voice-dead-relative-ai
Amazon shows off Alexa feature that mimics the voices of your dead relatives
Amazon has revealed an experimental Alexa feature that allows the AI assistant to mimic the voices of usersâ dead relatives.
The company demoed the feature at its annual MARS conference, showing a video in which a child asks Alexa to read a bedtime story in the voice of his dead grandmother.
âAs you saw in this experience, instead of Alexaâs voice reading the book, itâs the kidâs grandmaâs voice,â said Rohit Prasad, Amazonâs head scientist forAlexa AI. Prasad introduced the clip by saying that adding âhuman attributesâ to AI systems was increasingly important âin these times of the ongoing pandemic, when so many of us have lost someone we love.â
âWhile AI canât eliminate that pain of loss, it can definitely make their memories last,â said Prasad. You can watch the demo itself below:
Amazon has given no indication whether this feature will ever be made public, but says its systems can learn to imitate someoneâs voice from just a single minute of recorded audio. In an age of abundant videos and voice notes, this means itâs well within the average consumerâs reach to clone the voices of loved ones â or anyone else they like.
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Although this specific application is already controversial, with users on social media calling the feature âcreepyâ and a âmonstrosity,â such AI voice mimicry has become increasingly common in recent years. These imitations are often known as âaudio deepfakesâ and are already regularly used in industries like podcasting, film and TV, and video games.
Audio deepfakes are already common in podcasting and film
Many audio recording suites, for example, offer users the option to clone individual voices from their recordings. That way, if a podcast host flubs her or his line, for example, a sound engineer can edit what theyâve said simply by typing in a new script. Replicating lines of seamless speech requires a lot of work, but very small edits can be made with a few clicks.
The same technology has been used in film, too. Last year, it was revealed that a documentary about the life of chef Anthony Bourdain, who died in 2018, used AI to clone his voice in order to read quotes from emails he sent. Many fans were disgusted by the application of the technology, calling it âghoulishâ and âdeceptive.â Others defended the use of the technology as similar to other reconstructions used in documentaries.
Amazonâs Prasad said the feature could enable customers to have âlasting personal relationshipsâ with the deceased, and itâs certainly true that many people around the world are already using AI for this purpose. People have already created chatbots that imitate dead loved ones, for example, training AI based on stored conversations. Adding accurate voices to these systems â or even video avatars â is entirely possible using todayâs AI technology, and is likely to become more widespread.
However, whether or not customers will want their dead loved ones to become digital AI puppets is another matter entirely.
My other theory on why soo many factories are being torched or destroyedâŚ
Maybe the "White Hats" are destroying themâŚif they are "bad" and putting too many bad chemicals in the animals foodâŚthen "YES" they should all be destroyedâŚwe need a deep dig on who these farms belong to???âŚstarting with ownership, where they get their feed and what's in the feedâŚ
That should give us a starting clue on whether destroying those factories is a good thing or bad thingâŚ
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