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Meta announced a new AI model called Voicebox yesterday, one it says is the most versatile yet for speech generation, but it’s not releasing it yet: The model is still only a research project, but Meta says can generate speech in six languages from samples as short as two seconds and could be used for “natural, authentic” translation in the future, among other things.

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[–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 35 points 1 year ago

Bloody hell it's amazing how desperate this marketing attempt is. I've got an AI that'll blow your faces off with its output but I can't show you because, well, your face will resemble Gus Fring after several weeks in an acid bath. I can show you if you pay me a Huffmanian sum for API access though, but only if you sign an NDA and promise not to say mean things about us.

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't believe convincing everyone your new tech may destroy civilization is how you build hype nowadays.

[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Well guess its a good way to attract sociopathic investors

[–] shipp@mastodon.coffee 6 points 1 year ago

@luciole @realcaseyrollins so far it seems like it's been working lol

[–] Naatan@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Translation: Zuckerbot wants to generate some noise and there's nothing better to do that than AI doom and gloom.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or have it regulated so much that free alternatives cannot exist.

[–] fidodo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Zuck invested billions in the wrong tech tree and it's desperate to start relevant.

[–] sub_@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, but allow private access for wannabe authoritarians who will use it to create fake ad campaigns. No public access = no scrutiny from researchers nor watchdogs.

[–] shipp@mastodon.coffee 2 points 1 year ago

@sub_ @realcaseyrollins the tech out right now is pretty insane.

Luckily the memes have been pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59vYIzlxmF4

[–] BravoVictor@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

“Our technology is soooo jaw droppingly powerful, we must warn the public!” It just seems a little self serving. ‘Critihype’ (Motherboard?) was a term I heard recently that sums this up nicely.

[–] PurpleReign@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Translation... "This 'AI' is hot garbage that would make us look bad if we released it in its current state, but we want to hang out with the cool AI kids... So instead, we'll say that it's SO advanced and so good that it's DANGEROUS for the public. That way we look cool, ethical, and mysterious and definitely NOT that we blew our wad on the metaverse last year and are reaching for anything to climb out of the hole we dug..."

[–] speaker_hat@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can be unethical and still be legal; that's the way I live my life.

— Mark Zuckerberg

Mark won't hesitate to publish an unethical/dangerous model to the world, he'll actually thrive on it.

[–] HisNoodlyServant@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

One thing I am hoping for with "AI" tech is to have better language teaching software. It would be crazy to have an AI teacher correct you mid conversation or be able to adapt to what you are struggling with.

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is actually something I was working on at my last job: Using speech recognition to capture oral reading errors and give feedback to children. It's not a large field but definitely one of the more noble AI applications. One of the major downsides is that because of privacy concerns you will want to run models locally instead of simply accessing 3rd party (OpenAI/Meta) models through an API, which introduces performance limits.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really AI but if you want to learn lojban you get most of the way: The language actually has a formal grammar so it's possible to write bog-standard software that doesn't care when you say "You must have patience, my young Padawan" instead of "Patience you must have, my young Padawan". It's going to tell you which it expected but not beat you over the head with it.

[–] melonplant@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

That's a really cool idea!

[–] AntennaRover@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

It’s only a matter of time. If they don’t release it, someone else will release something comparable.

[–] FerrahWolfeh@solstice.etbr.top 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So sad that because of a number of bad people with bad intentions, such good pieces of tech are never given to people in it's entirety.

If meta ever releases this, I'm afraid it might be just a more "broken down" version of a local Google translate voice, unfortunately...

[–] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt it's as good as they say. This is probably just hype to make their model seem really good in the news.

[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If they actually had it, I'm pretty sure they would release a demonstration video at least - that doesn't require sharing the data or the code, so I can't imagine why they wouldn't.

Buuuut nah. It's just marketing.

[–] fing3r@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Hm, if it give Zuck the creeps, it must be good.

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 3 points 1 year ago

You can already make deepfake videos from a single target face image, and now you can make AI generated voice from two seconds of sample? The future is going to be interesting to say the least.

[–] RobertJCross@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Just release it 😅

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