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Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by PavlovsCat »

browsercoin wrote: post #45
msla wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here. Pointing out the crimes of the PRC is not disrespectful. Except, perhaps, to the PRC. > Chinese people are human beings. Nobody's saying they're not.

> Except, perhaps, to the PRC. or people who has been unwittingly duped/brainwashed into buying that "China will overtake USA anytime now" propaganda. it's not limited to race, I've definitely seen some white American dude shilling for China...smh

> it's not limited to race

Very true.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27307476

> The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said there was not enough evidence for the organisation to "either support or not support" placentophagy as there had not been enough research on the health benefits.

On the one hand I didn't want to post this because it kinda grossed me out and might ruin someone's day or something -- on the other hand, I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia", just because of the other powdered animal stuff; but wasn't aware of it being a thing, period, and I guess that would describe many people. And some of the sentences in that article are really quite something, oh my.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by dredmorbius »

kitd wrote: post #28

I happen to think that how people react to news is determined to quite a large extent by the anchor's delivery. Stress and and intonation give clues about interpretation and expected response. Eg BBC newsreaders in the 1970s delivered in a very flat and non-opinionated style. Today it's full of their own "personality", ie opinion. Worrying therefore that such stuff may be just a few config variables away from being c…

Listening to the 9/11 broadcast, the first thing that tipped me off was the anchor's tone of voice. Discovery accident likewise.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by browsercoin »

PavlovsCat wrote: post #71
browsercoin wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Except, perhaps, to the PRC. or people who has been unwittingly duped/brainwashed into buying that "China will overtake USA anytime now" propaganda. it's not limited to race, I've definitely seen some white American dude shilling for China...smh

> it's not limited to race Very true. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27307476 > The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said there was not enough evidence for the organisation to "either support or not support" placentophagy as there had not been enough research on the health benefits. On the one hand I didn't want to post this because it kinda grossed me out and might ruin someone's day or something -- on the other…

I literally just threw up after finishing my avocado sandwich.

should add NSFL to that link.

im done with HN for the rest of the day.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by SrslyJosh »

> "AI news anchors"

They read from a script, poorly. The video of the anchor is generated using ML, but there is no "intelligence" here, not even artificial.

It's good propaganda for China, but not much more right now.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by candiodari »

AWildC182 wrote: post #64
Mathnerd314 wrote: post #41

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Still sounds stilted. Try Google's: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ ( https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17167200/google-ai-speech... )

Kind of uncanny valley. The pronunciation of the words is good but there's no emphasis through the sentence so it sounds flat and kind of unsettling.

They should make it a university teacher. Clearly it's got the core skill down.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by pvarangot »

SrslyJosh wrote: post #74

> "AI news anchors" They read from a script, poorly. The video of the anchor is generated using ML, but there is no "intelligence" here, not even artificial. It's good propaganda for China, but not much more right now.

> They read from a script

"Real" or "human" news anchors don't? Asking because I really don't know, not to be pedantically poignant.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by eiaoa »

PakG1 wrote: post #69
test6554 wrote: post #67

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The only thing that would be on the mind of an AI is what is trained to be on its mind...

Isn't the main point of the singularity that AI would be able to break free of such bonds due to its superior intelligence?

> Isn't the main point of the singularity that AI would be able to break free of such bonds due to its superior intelligence?

At this point, the singularity is speculative fiction.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by yourbandsucks »

PavlovsCat wrote: post #71
browsercoin wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Except, perhaps, to the PRC. or people who has been unwittingly duped/brainwashed into buying that "China will overtake USA anytime now" propaganda. it's not limited to race, I've definitely seen some white American dude shilling for China...smh

> it's not limited to race Very true. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27307476 > The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said there was not enough evidence for the organisation to "either support or not support" placentophagy as there had not been enough research on the health benefits. On the one hand I didn't want to post this because it kinda grossed me out and might ruin someone's day or something -- on the other…

I'm not understanding the relevance here, could you explain?

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by tomcooks »

pvarangot wrote: post #76
SrslyJosh wrote: post #74

> "AI news anchors" They read from a script, poorly. The video of the anchor is generated using ML, but there is no "intelligence" here, not even artificial. It's good propaganda for China, but not much more right now.

> They read from a script "Real" or "human" news anchors don't? Asking because I really don't know, not to be pedantically poignant.

I think the user was referring to the AI bit. This "AI news anchor" is a glorified TTS.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by adventured »

bitL wrote: post #48
lawlessone wrote: post #5

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Thinking on that... someone could use it to declare a revolution, or say claim a disaster has happened.

Once general-purpose GPUs get 100x faster (by 2025?), they'll get classified as weapons and one would need a strictly regulated license to do Deep Learning on them, with computations logged/snapshotted onto some governmental server. Gamers will be forced to stream from cloud.

Can you name another common computer technology that has gotten so advanced it became classified as a weapon?

The notion that in six years general purpose GPUs will be strictly regulated as weapons, is pretty comical. It'll never happen.

In three or four years the improvemnet scaling will already be enough that whatever scenario you think must wait six years to justify strictly regulating GPU ownership, will already be possible. Absolutely nothing interesting is going to happen in the next six years that will require practically outlawing ownership of GPUs.

It's a non-issue for the next 10-15 years at a minimum. More likely it will never be an issue, because of the expertise that will be required. You can do nuclear technology research on your home computer, entirely legally. They do a pretty good job of keeping track of people capable of building nuclear tech. If AI becomes a similar risk, they'll do the same thing with the best minds in AI (ie track them). Very few AI developers will be able to build particularly dangerous AI applications, the counter thinking to that is fantasy based, a form of technology fear (which for 50+ years has failed to prove out time and time again; the technology fear ideology has failed so often and so spectacularly that it should be entirely discredited at this point).

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