Most of Us Don’t Yet Know About Artificial Intelligence (AI) but In Years to Come Many of Us Are Going To Be Amazed By It and Many of Us Will Be Harmed By It

Below are 3 True Lies...

Ø I just listened to an Audio Recording from Ernest Hemingway in which he praised my Foolishness...Or Is It Blog for its Great Humor, its Hard Hitting Addressing of Important Subject Matter and Magnificent Word Usage and Sentence Construction.

Ø I just listened to an Audio Recording from General George S. Patton telling me he very much enjoyed my recent presentation about Helicopter Medical Evacuation in Vietnam. He told me how he wished he had had the opportunity to utilize Dustoff Medical Evacuation when he was in command of the 3^rd Army during World War ll.

Ø I just listened to an Audio Recording from Babe Ruth telling me how I could have been a better home run hitter than he was if I only were bigger, had better eye-hand coordination, were not so clumsy fielding ground balls, had better developed muscles, could run faster than I can and did not strike out as often as I do.

All 3 bullets above are completely false but the fact that 3 famous people (Hemingway, Patton and Ruth) are heard to say the words makes them sound very believable. How can it be that these people who never said these things are heard saying these things? The reason they are heard saying what they did not say is because such audio recordings can now we created by AI thanks to something Microsoft has come up with called VALL-E.

Here is an excerpt from a very long and confusing article (article link below) that tries to explain all of it...

On January 5, 2023, Microsoft researchers announced a new text-to-speech AI model called VALL-E that can closely simulate a person's voice when given a three-second audio sample. Once it learns a specific voice, VALL-E can synthesize audio of that person saying anything—and do it in a way that attempts to preserve the speaker's emotional tone.

You can read but probably not understand all about it by clicking below: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/microsofts-new-ai-can-simulate-anyones-voice-with-3-seconds-of-audio/

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Here is how we could be harmed by VALL-E...

(Yea, in bullet point format, yea, 3 bullet points and yea, I’m in a rut.)

Ø A Presidential Candidate could be knocked our the race because the day before the election a recording could be broadcasted over the nightly news wherein the candidate says he has always dreamed about bringing about the destruction of the Good Ole USofA and once elected President he plans to do exactly that.

Ø The defendant in a murder trial could hear a recording of himself saying his is guilty as hell and he is glad he killed who he killed but who he did not kill.

Ø God (sounding a lot like Charlton Heston) saying the people who made it to heaven and much happier than he ever thought possible because they have all been given a copy of my Little Read Book (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/foolishnessor-is-it-alexander-j-ortolano/1115522360) and they are reading it over and over (while they eat their Cannoli). He also said He is certain it is not the eating of the Cannoli that is making them eternally happy (but it sure helps).

Would I kid u?

Smartfella