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Re:Ask HN: What happens when AI-voice becomes good enough?
on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:29PM (#48508462)
Not sure I agree here
Text is just human thoughts in their most simple form. Writing is about expressing ideas, and there is almost an infinite number of ways to express them. Extremely difficult task, and LLMs only "imitate" it to the best of their training
This is not at all true for voice. There are an infinite number of possible voices, but a finite number of tones and phonemes you can use to express the text.
It's a much easier technical problem; it's just that it's much harder to gather proper data (you cannot just scrape Reddit and hope for the best, as LLMs do). And voice gets like 1/100th of LLMs' funding
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Re:Ask HN: Is the job market in Europe tough or is something wrong wit...
on Friday April 28, 2023 @07:30AM (#35739982)
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Re:Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed
on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:58PM (#30517472)
I agree with you. The feeling that grass is greener might play a role here, as I've already seen the 'ugly' side of DS, but not of SWE
But I thought I could easily come back to ML if I want to after SWE jobs given my prev experience. From inside the industry, I see that companies really want Data Scientists who know how to code properly
Re:Ask HN: I realise data science is not for me and feel depressed
on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @08:39AM (#30513929)
I can relate to this. The process of studying ML algorithms, how and why they work from the mathematical standpoint was really fun. But the process of building models themselves seems quite boring to me
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