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Embarrassed_Bat6101 t1_jdtryg8 wrote

I’m imagining at some point in the very near future we might have something kind of like the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a little tablet that you can talk to that talks back and contains all human knowledge.

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Anjz OP t1_jdts7xi wrote

I'd say we already have something very similar with Alpaca running on Raspberry Pi's! Just not as cool and witty... yet.

In that sense, I'm ready to reread Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy now.

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Embarrassed_Bat6101 t1_jdtsdz8 wrote

Exactly, I think we’re about to reach that point where the AI will be able to have a two way speech conversation with us with a voice that sounds real.

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Anjz OP t1_jdtth3u wrote

In another line of thought similar to what you've just said, we've always had robotic responses from text to speech, but if we apply what we have with current machine learning foundations and train it with huge amounts of audio data on how people talk..

That will be a bit freaky I would think. I would be perplexed and amazed.

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Embarrassed_Bat6101 t1_jdtvtfx wrote

Well there are already companies now that let you do this with voices, and they sound damn good too. I think all these services are sort of popping up at the same time that they’ll converge on that sort of assistant.

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Anjz OP t1_jdtwn7m wrote

I'd pay for a Stephen Fry voiceover to narrate my interactions with ChatGPT.

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Embarrassed_Bat6101 t1_jdtxewz wrote

I can’t remember the one I had found but if you paid like 10 or 20$ a month they would let you upload your own audio and you could make a text to speech voice. I think i saw a post on here the other day where someone did Steve Jobs and it sounded so similar to him it was nuts.

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Poorfocus t1_jdugyhm wrote

Yeah, it’s called Elevenlabs, a bit cheaper than that for the first tier and it’s really fantastic, I tested it out by recording some friends have natural conversations speaking directly into their microphones on discord (w/ consent!)

One thing is you have to turn down the stability parameter very low from the default or else the intonation is very stiff and it sounds robotic, bring it down to 20% and generate a few times but when it gets the likeness right it’s perfect. To the point where even the person it was emulating found it convincing

I’m curious how it handles the reading, since it’s obviously context aware to some extent. I think we as humans are very keen to picking out “poor acting” and unnatural vocal delivery. I think when that gets improved, we’ll have completely natural language conversations with the ai.

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sideways t1_jduelib wrote

I'm also thinking that we're getting close to the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from The Diamond Age.

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yorinorico2 t1_jdu4mst wrote

Hello, I have been trying to do this, can you share some cool guides about this that you might know? Thank you!

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czmax t1_jdwg1pp wrote

And its time to train up one of these AI models to response as if it were the hitchhikers guide (e.g. get the humor right).

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Tiamatium t1_jdugny4 wrote

I mean we could build it now, more or less... Wikipedia is only couple of hundred gigs of data.

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NarrowEyedWanderer t1_jdvk6sv wrote

Wikipedia is very, very far from containing all human knowledge, though.

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NAINOA- t1_jdvlz9t wrote

It’s pretty close for most people.

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beholdingmyballs t1_jdvvjbw wrote

You could even add all academic papers. Though I don't know how big that data is.

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featherless_fiend t1_jdvwgvd wrote

We also have these physical things called books and encyclopedias.

No one cares about having Wikipedia in their pocket. The keyword is convenience and being able to talk to an AI is the ultimate convenience.

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lehcarfugu t1_jdv29ic wrote

Like some kind of... Portable cellular device?

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skob17 t1_jdvvbpu wrote

Smartphones are already scifi if you ask my father.

Integrate a speech-to-speech AI assistant and we are there. Think like Siri or Cortana, but with gpt levels of intelligence.

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hoodiemonster t1_jdu00nu wrote

what are we gonna call it? and are we gonna have our own personal companion scarjo-style? can i put it in a roomba? or a dragonbot? will it fill the cold empty voids in our hearts? is it god?

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