Meanwhile: #AI

Microsoft made an AI voice so real, it's too dangerous to release - Called VALL-E 2, the research paper claims it's the first time "human parity" has been achieved in a text-to-speech system

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https://share.counter.social/s/7a0ab6

Researchers at the company revealed in a research paper that they've built an AI voice synthesizer that can create believable, realistic human voices straight from text prompts

(spotted by Live Science)

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-speech-generator-reaches-human-parity-but-its-too-dangerous-to-release-scientists-say