Submitted 1 week ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to technology@beehaw.org
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational voice model from AI startup Sesame that has left many users both fascinated and unnerved.
Yeah I immediately disregard all AI propaganda that references “Her.” This is for rubes and suckers.
I totally get what you’re saying but did you listen to the recordings? This might be a breakthrough.
But is it that different than the podcasts voices Google already generate with NotebookLM since a while?
Or go try the demo. It IS eerily uncanny.
Lmfao, perish the thought
Wow, Jesus. Maya has the same conversational style that Merle Dandridge has in the Half Life 2 commentary tracks (in commentary mode).
That is, even for AI, eerily good. Honestly, I’m not sure if I could always tell them apart if I was fed a bunch of voice clips blind, and asked which ones were human, and which were AI.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Here’s the video from the article: Image
spizzat2@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It feels weird, like maybe over-practiced, but I agree that it sounds human enough to fool me.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 1 week ago
It feels reminiscent of the way narrators used to do books on tape. Modern ones are better imho, but all the pausing and intonation definitely seems “professional” more than conversational. Still extremely good.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Yeah, it sounds like it was recorded in a recording studio, but not like it’s a robot. Very creepy.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 week ago
It sounds a bit off. But if you’re not looking for it, you won’t find it. That, I believe, is enough to fool most everyone, which is arguably a bad thing.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 week ago
At first, I thought it said it likes peanut butter & people sandwiches, and was like, WTF??? 🫥
Wahots@pawb.social 1 week ago
For reference, this is what Maya reminds me of, Merle Dandridge, VA for Half Life 2’s Alyx Vance.
I’ve skipped to some slower commentary, just so that you can kinda see what a human and AI can sound like with similar pacing while reflecting on a question:
youtu.be/GCgkK-Y_uwg?t=8m