“I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinking It Was Me”

Re:“I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinki... by jasonlfunk on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:06AM (#17876789)

In what sense can this actually be considered to be "AI"? It's software that builds a voice profile from input sources and then uses that profile to generate waveforms. Where is the intelligence?

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Re:“I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinki... by tantalor on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:20AM (#17876920)

Artificial intelligence can be defined as training a model with real-world input/output pairs & approximating a general solution to generating output for arbitrary input.

In this case, your brain (the "non-artificial intelligence") can take some text and control your vocal chords to emit sound waves to produce speech. You can even learn different voices like a cartoon character voice artist. The artificial intelligence can learn to do the same thing.

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Re:“I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinki... by taneq on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:11PM (#17882178)

The intelligence is in another castle. Convincingly mimicking someone's voice using a computer is now possible and therefore is not AI.

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Re:“I Used AI to Clone My Voice and Trick My Mom into Thinki... by dan678 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:35AM (#17877061)

Presumably, they use sample recordings to train a model. This approach is in the domain of machine learning, a subset of AI.

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