Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.
Bloody hell it’s amazing how desperate this marketing attempt is. I’ve got an AI that’ll blow your faces off with its output but I can’t show you because, well, your face will resemble Gus Fring after several weeks in an acid bath. I can show you if you pay me a Huffmanian sum for API access though, but only if you sign an NDA and promise not to say mean things about us.
I can’t believe convincing everyone your new tech may destroy civilization is how you build hype nowadays.
@luciole @realcaseyrollins so far it seems like it’s been working lol
Translation: Zuckerbot wants to generate some noise and there’s nothing better to do that than AI doom and gloom.
One thing I am hoping for with “AI” tech is to have better language teaching software. It would be crazy to have an AI teacher correct you mid conversation or be able to adapt to what you are struggling with.
Not really AI but if you want to learn lojban you get most of the way: The language actually has a formal grammar so it’s possible to write bog-standard software that doesn’t care when you say “You must have patience, my young Padawan” instead of “Patience you must have, my young Padawan”. It’s going to tell you which it expected but not beat you over the head with it.
Ah, but allow private access for wannabe authoritarians who will use it to create fake ad campaigns. No public access = no scrutiny from researchers nor watchdogs.
@sub_ @realcaseyrollins the tech out right now is pretty insane.
Luckily the memes have been pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59vYIzlxmF4
