Artificial Intelligence is being used to take on a range of activities, from art to baking. It has made some impressive strides lately and its pros and cons are usually fiercely debated on the internet. Now, an entire podcast has been generated using AI, which imitates the voice and inflection of Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs. The interview on the AI podcast website is pretty difficult to see through, with it being almost impossible to tell that it is not actually Steve Jobs being interviewed by Joe Rogan.
The AI creates a new podcast every week where a new subject is discussed in depth. Listeners can suggest subjects, as well as ideas for guests and hosts. “Whether you’re a machine learning enthusiast, just want to hear your favorite topics covered in a new way or even just want to listen to voices from the past brought back to life, this is the podcast for you," the website reads.
“Steve Jobs’ voice was cloned from less than 4 hours fine tuned on our Speech model and we brought it down to 1hr now… Soon anyone will be able to do that for his own voice from only few minutes," Mahmoud Felfel, one of the creators, explained on Twitter.
This is pretty mind-blowing: a podcast that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence where Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs. https://t.co/JPeKZ8ylxk— Alex MacCaw (@maccaw) October 11, 2022
This sounds exactly like Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan. Congrats to the @play_ht team 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/DLu0cujKj2
— Kevin Natanzon (@kevntz) October 11, 2022
While it’s an impressive leap, it did set off alarms for many Twitter users, who were concerned about the malicious usage of technology. “Man it’s wild how much naive, earnest, pure of heart time and effort tech people will put into technologies that literally only have malicious use cases [sic]," one user commented.
i’d say this comment is pretty naive. to think you understand all the use cases around this, and that they are all malicious, especially 2nd/3rd order effects— CHRIS2PHΞR CHASΞ (@Chris2pherChase) October 11, 2022
And therein lies the problem. Such development devalues the restrictions that reality places on our abilities.We could make a podcast between 2 deceased people from different eras and people would lap it up.
But by this we devalue truth, authenticity and true progress. pic.twitter.com/BhPI7hBSia
— Tariq Khan (@TariqMK_) October 11, 2022
Could a collaboration between reality and AI be possible for the betterment of humankind? Only time will tell.
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