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This is absolutely absurd and really scary. I'm not a hugely scientific person, so I might have misunderstood, but it seems like we are getting close to being a

This is absolutely absurd and really scary. I'm not a hugely scientific person, so I might have misunderstood, but it seems like we are getting close to being able to figure out the whole of a person just from a snapshot of one part of them, like their voice. I really worry for people born 100 years from now. We need to be really careful with technology like this. This could lead to a dystopia greater than Orwell could have ever predicted, and I don't want to sit idly by while it happens

tntn 7y ago
There are some recent developments that are potentially scary, but I don't see how this is one of them. Humans are really good at guessing approximate age, sex, and ethnicity from a voice. I'm not surprised in the least that some machine learning can do it too. I think the "whole of a person" is a lot more than age, sex, and ethnicity, so I don't agree that we are "getting close."