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Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

aminmemon wrote: post #4

This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?

I'd love that. It'd be like Google Duplex, but save me the effort of having to say "no" to going to things.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by vokep »

aminmemon wrote: post #4

This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Be Right Back (black mirror ep with a product that is exactly this)

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by aminmemon »

HaHa31 wrote: post #7
aminmemon wrote: post #4

This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?

Lol, I love seeing that no idea is completely unique. I have been thinking about it a lot over the last month. I am honestly wondering what your ethical concerns are with this "digital replication".

With bot-like digital replication of oneself the possibilities of things that can be achieved are huge and a lot of ways on how such tech could be misused.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by aminmemon »

bbody wrote: post #6
aminmemon wrote: post #4

This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?

Lyrebird ( https://lyrebird.ai/ ) is trying to the voice imitation component.

Great! Seems promising.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by iagooar »

fredley wrote: post #5
iamrobschiavone wrote: post #2

Be Right Back

This comment is referencing Be Right Back , a Black Mirror episode featuring this exact idea as a premise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

One of the best episodes of Black Mirror. Truly made me have deep thoughts about myself, life, and where humanity is going. Immortality seems indeed achievable, but not in a biological way our ancestors imagined.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by teej »

aminmemon wrote: post #4

This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?

Check out MariFlow, a RNN trained to play Mario Kart as the creator would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipi40cb_RsI

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

aminmemon wrote: post #4

This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?

This is literally a Black Mirror episode -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

Synopsis: "The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it. "Be Right Back" had two sources of inspiration: the question of whether to delete a dead friend's phone number from one's contacts, and the idea that Twitter posts could be made by software mimicking dead people."

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by fractallyte »

Better be careful with that...

From "Bicycle Repairman", by Bruce Sterling (1996) (This is a spoiler, BTW!):

"The mook speaks just like the Senator did, or the way the Senator used to speak, when he was in private and off the record. The way he spoke in his diaries. As far as we can tell, the mook was his diary.... It used to be his personal laptop computer. But he just kept transferring the files, and upgrading the software, and teaching it new tricks like voice recognition and speech-writing, and giving it power of attorney and such.... And then, one day the mook made a break for it. We think that the mook sincerely believes that it’s the Senator."

Oh, and just note that this was way before Black Mirror.

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