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I can imagine a near future whereby an RNN is trained to have an especially lovely reading voice. A large number of people might actually become convinced that
by ericjang 11y ago
I can imagine a near future whereby an RNN is trained to have an especially lovely reading voice. A large number of people might actually become convinced that the RNN is a person and develop empathy towards it.
- _lce0 11y agohaha combine that voice with some Markov chains, and you have the perfect friend replacement app!
- atom_enger 11y agoThis is starting to sound a lot like Her(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/). It'll likely be the case one day.
- contravariant 11y agoIt also sounds similar to the black mirror episode "Be Right Back", although that episode provides a somewhat darker perspective.
- sarwechshar 11y agoIt leads me to wonder why we haven't seen (or at least heard about the development of) an operating system with purely voice "UI" based on an RNN... Especially after Her came out. I understand it's hard but it also sounds like a fun project for people with the relevant know-how.
- ericjang 11y agoAndrew Ng gave a keynote at GTC in which he talked about bringing Baidu's Deep Speech technology to phones (for accessibility). You betcha they're working on it!
- lmm 11y agoThat kind of thing happens already (with human experts rather than RNNs, but does that matter?) - you're reminding me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimi_Eguchi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimi_Eguchi