Microsoft’s VALL-E AI can clone your voice in just three seconds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine all the times you use your voice, now imagine what would happen if people could clone it – for good and bad … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Creators used AI to generate endless podcasts of Herzog and Zizek talking together
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What happens when AI generates most of our content – including podcasts? It changes entertainment, society, and our ability to trust. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Meta’s AudioGen AI generates convincing sounds from just text
WHY THIS MATTERS OM BRIEF Within the decade alot more of the content you consume will be made by AI, and after that it could be almost all of it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in this new AI generated podcast
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The creation of content is increasingly being automated using advanced AI and this is just another example of how in the future creators will have to compete with the machines. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
State actors weaponise DeepFakes to try and change the course of the Ukraine war
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When you can no longer trust the information you see, and when technology lets you create fake people and fake content, the fabric of society starts to unravel. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
Replica Studios makes it easy for games studios to create synthetic voices
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When AI can create authentic human voices who needs voice actors? And what else can they do? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Hot on the heels of DeepZen who recently released...
AI’s “Screams of the damned” is the future of music
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF DeepFake videos are already destabilising democracy, and now DeepFake Audio is here to do the same to the music industry. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. For a while now Artificial Intelligence...
AI is solving one of musics most expensive problems – mastering
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When you’ve created your perfect soundtrack it needs to be mastered, and AI is driving the costs to zero. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Making music is one of the most...
DeepZen’s synthetic AI voices finally make audio books you want to listen to
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI is sounding more and more human-like, and that’s an issue if you make a career out of your voice … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Over the past couple of...
AI’s that can create and infinitely stream their own content are getting closer
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI’s get better at generating synthetic content, from art, games, and music, to imagery and videos, have you ever wondered what happens when they can stream unique, tailored content 24-7 365? No? Uh-Oh. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, enjoy exclusive content, future...
Futurist Keynote, Helsinki: Future of Synthetic Content and Creativity, Episerver
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creativity has long been thought of as being uniquely human, but that same human creativity and ingenuity is now giving rise to the world’s first Creative Machines that are capable of creating content and innovating products. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book,...
First of a kind attack as criminals clone a CEO’s voice and con UK energy firm out of $243,000
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI’s get better at creating fake content, or synthetic content, this type of attack will be the start of a new worrying trend. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. After Google’s Duplex demonstration last year it’s clear...
OpenAI’s MuseNet AI can generate 4 minute songs across a wide range of genres and styles
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI’s are getting better at creating and generating synthetic music, and some of them are starting to get signed by major record labels. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The number of so called creative machines capable of...
Facebook’s AI clone of Bill Gates sounds like the real deal
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As companies get better at creating AI’s that can synthesise people’s voices it created new opportunities, and new problems. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As we see more and more Synthetic Content created, including DeepFakes and DeepFake...
Clinton, Obama and Trump just endorsed a scarily accurate AI mimic
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Artificial intelligence is gaining new skills all the time, and now it’s creating scarily accurate impressions of celebrities. The Lyre Bird is a unique bird that lives in the Amazon Rainforest because it’s especially skilled at copying the sound of its surroundings. It’s so...
Bach lives again, in AI form
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Trying to emulate human skills and talents isn’t easy – even for humans – but increasingly AI is muscling in on what we once considered to be unique human traits. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing parking its caravan on humanity’s lawn. Traits that we...
Google’s Project Magenta wants to be a musician
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Project Magenta will do for music what Google Deep dream does for images. It’s a long way to Carnegie Hall, but we bet that Google researchers are already thinking of the day when their Artificial Intelligence protege “Magenta” can cut an album that beats...
