And how it could be you being impersonated next
Video Here’s another one of your regular reminders that AI software can be creepy.
Engineers at Dessa, an AI startup focused on helping enterprises use machine learning, have managed to clone the voice of Joe Rogan, the host of the popular podcast show The Joe Rogan Experience.
Dessa called it “the most realistic AI simulation of a voice we’ve heard to date,” and they’re not wrong. Previous clips of computers imitating human voices have been robotic and grainy at worst, or pretty convincing but super short at best. The latest attempt, however, is actually quite impressive.
Here’s a few samples of the fake Joe Rogan talking about absurdities like sponsoring a hockey team made up of chimps or being a medical expert after hooking up his brain to the internet.
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Joe Rogan is a pretty easy target to mimic. He has recorded nearly 1,300 episodes of his talk show, with each one lasting at least a couple of hours, so there’s a lot of audio to use as training data.
