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I made an AI write a podcast transcript then I made another AI read it :D https://soundcloud.com/jn2022/lexman-artificial-podcast-episode-003-elon-musk-part-2

I made an AI write a podcast transcript then I made another AI read it :D https://soundcloud.com/jn2022/lexman-artificial-podcast-episode-003-elon-musk-part-2 https://soundcloud.com/jn2022/lexman-artificial-podcast-epis...

mccorrinall 4y ago
This is amazing. “We use robot dogs to plant the fruits”
- Melting_Harps 4y ago
  > This is amazing. It's Kafkaesque source material not withstanding, it was able to accurately emulate two of the most robotic sounding popular 'influencers,' with tons of ocntent to piece it all together, but and this is a caveat, the only realistic thing that came from it was when they briefly spoke over each other. Everything else seemed obviously fake. Consider this sounds nothing like the Elon you see on the most recent All in Podcast interview, either. If you threw that in would it distort the pitch and cadence of 'fruit juice' Elon? Over all it's a pretty cool display of where the tech is, though, but NLP has had decades of data behind it but it's still in its relative infancy. The sounds of the voices being made within a situational context are passable deepfakes, for sure. It's almost like they got audio of both together to make a SNL sketch with a deadpan hook that never got aired. Conclusion: Model training is actually really cool and has thus far been the most interesting aspect of AI to me.
  - simsla 4y ago
    "It's like a dog that taught itself to speak to humans, but people are complaining that its English isn't perfect." - someone, on the state of ML (Can't find the source, because Google hates me.)
  - mccorrinall 4y ago
    I found it amazing in the sense that I wouldn’t even come up with sentences like this under influence :D I just think it’s funny.
stavros 4y ago
Very nice! Which AI is doing the reading?
- almostdigital 4y ago
  Thanks! It's TorToiSe: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
  - stavros 4y ago
    That's great, thank you!
jugg1es 4y ago
Did the AI also come up with the topic? or was that prompted?
- almostdigital 4y ago
  It's prompted by a premise of the podcast that I wrote and a list of keywords and guests. I also sometimes prod it during the transcript generation to make it more interesting, the ending for example was me injecting a line "I'll leave you with this bit of Vogon poetry".
anjc 4y ago
How much of the scripts did you handwrite? Very impressive!
- almostdigital 4y ago
  Thanks! It's mostly written by the AI but I prod it along at critical points to make it more interesting

mccorrinall 4y ago

This is amazing. “We use robot dogs to plant the fruits”

Melting_Harps 4y ago
> This is amazing. It's Kafkaesque source material not withstanding, it was able to accurately emulate two of the most robotic sounding popular 'influencers,' with tons of ocntent to piece it all together, but and this is a caveat, the only realistic thing that came from it was when they briefly spoke over each other. Everything else seemed obviously fake. Consider this sounds nothing like the Elon you see on the most recent All in Podcast interview, either. If you threw that in would it distort the pitch and cadence of 'fruit juice' Elon? Over all it's a pretty cool display of where the tech is, though, but NLP has had decades of data behind it but it's still in its relative infancy. The sounds of the voices being made within a situational context are passable deepfakes, for sure. It's almost like they got audio of both together to make a SNL sketch with a deadpan hook that never got aired. Conclusion: Model training is actually really cool and has thus far been the most interesting aspect of AI to me.
- simsla 4y ago
  "It's like a dog that taught itself to speak to humans, but people are complaining that its English isn't perfect." - someone, on the state of ML (Can't find the source, because Google hates me.)
- mccorrinall 4y ago
  I found it amazing in the sense that I wouldn’t even come up with sentences like this under influence :D I just think it’s funny.

stavros 4y ago

Very nice! Which AI is doing the reading?

almostdigital 4y ago
Thanks! It's TorToiSe: https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
- stavros 4y ago
  That's great, thank you!

jugg1es 4y ago

Did the AI also come up with the topic? or was that prompted?

almostdigital 4y ago
It's prompted by a premise of the podcast that I wrote and a list of keywords and guests. I also sometimes prod it during the transcript generation to make it more interesting, the ending for example was me injecting a line "I'll leave you with this bit of Vogon poetry".

anjc 4y ago

How much of the scripts did you handwrite? Very impressive!

almostdigital 4y ago
Thanks! It's mostly written by the AI but I prod it along at critical points to make it more interesting