Who here has actually compared the two voices? Because they don’t sound alike. I think this whole thing is absurd
Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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>Is there a distinction? Yes, that would be a copyright violation on top of everything else. Great idea though! I'm going to start selling Keanu Reeves T-Shirts using this little trick. See, I'm not using Keanu's likeness if I don't label it as Keanu. I'm just going to write Neo in a Tweet, and then say I'm just cloning Neo 's likeness. Neo is not a real person, so Keanu can't sue me! Bwahahaha
I love these takes that constantly pop up in tech circles. There's no way "you" (the people that engage in these tactics) believe anyone is that gullible to not see what's happening. You either believe yourselves to be exceedingly clever or everyone else has the intelligence of toddler. With the gumption some tech "leaders" display, maybe both. If you have to say "technically it's not" 5x in a row to justify a positi…
Just to be clear, my comment was sarcastic, I agree with you and I don't think it's a great idea at all.
Writing this comment mostly to say - damn, I didn't think about it this way, but I guess "either believe yourselves to be exceedingly clever or everyone else has the intelligence of toddler" is indeed the mindset.
The only other alternative I can think of is "we all know it's BS, but do they have more money than us to spend on lawyers to call it out?" - which isn't much better TBH.
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
#963Altman often uses tactical charisma to trap gullible people, government entities, and any unsuspecting powerful person for his ends. He will not bat an eyelid to take whatever unethical route if that gives him "moat". He relentlessly talks as if "near-term AGI" is straining to get out of the bottle in his ClosedAI basement. He will tell you with great concern about how "nervous" or "scared" (he said this to the US Co…
> He will tell you with great concern about how "nervous" or "scared" (he said this to the US Congress[1]) of what he thinks his newest LLM model is gonna let loose on humanity.
It’s so refreshing to hear someone else actually understand this sentiment for what it is— snake oil sales. The normies out there eat this up, and there is no convincing them otherwise because of how powerful the AI trope in entertainment media is.
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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> They clearly thought it was close enough that they asked for permission, twice. You seem to be misunderstanding the situation here. They wanted ScarJo to voice their voice assistant, and she refused twice. They also independently created a voice assistant which sounds very similar to her. That doesn't mean they thought they had to ask permission for the similar voice assistant.
So, what would they have done if she accepted? Claimed that the existing training of the Sky voice was voiced by her?
They would create a voice in partnership with her? Not sure why you’re assuming it’s some insanely laborious process. It would obviously have been incredible marketing for them to actually get her on board.
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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If anyone thinks this demo is cool, I regret to inform you that your life is very, very sad.
"Over the top" means exaggerated and corny, almost the opposite of "cool".
I was not contradicting the parent comment, but adding to it. I know what "over the top" means, thank you.
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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How do people watch 15 seconds of a demo like this - https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1790072174117613963 And not see how over the top it is... cmon.
I couldn’t take more than 10s of that. It’s so cringey and for some reason trying to be sexy? Like why would I want a bot to flirt with me while I’m trying to get information?
Precisely my comment. You can see the personality of the people building these products through the tech demo.
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
#967Except that Sky doesn't sound like Scarlett Johansson. I'm sick and tired of Hollywood!
Sky voice is quite different [0]! Yet another PR stunt as the world has forgotten about her!
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cwy6wz/vocal_comp...
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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Azure Speech tts is capable of speeding up, slowing down, sarcasm, etc with SSML. I wouldn't be surprised if it's what OpenAI is using on the backend.
Greg has specifically said it's not an SSML-parsing text model; he's said it's an end to end multimodal model. FWIW, I would find it very surprising if you could get the low latency expressiveness, singing, harmonizing, sarcasm and interpretation of incoming voice through SSML -- that would be a couple orders of magnitude better than any SSML product I've seen.
Not sure about the low latency aspect, but I've seen everything else you mentioned with SSML. Also, I can't find where Greg said that, could you point me to it?
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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The above comment from MBCook captures it well but basically I would say that for the majority of people I know: Cons: the rise of scams, carbon emissions, and, some think, existential risk. Pros: ??? You can be more efficient at the email job you hate. And it gives you advice on gardening and home improvement so you don’t have to call your uncle. Cons outweigh the pros
Your pros list being empty is the real answer. Basically you don't know the pros because you haven't taken the time to find out. Kinda delegitimizes your cons list too. I'm not going to bother word-by-word checking your work.
Um, okay. The original question of “curious, why?” didn’t imply that I need respond with any level of rigor. I don’t think that the burden of proof should be on me to explain why ChatGPT is useful when I don’t believe it to be. But please feel free to not bother to pick apart my opinion ”word-by-word”. No one asked you to
Re: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
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I don’t know a single person who has ever mentioned wanting an AI assistant, and I know a lot of people who are creeped out by the idea. I live in a swing state and work for a big tech company but most of my friends aren’t in tech. So I’m not sure that a “majority agrees” about anything related to an AI assistant
Yet every single person uses an AI assistant every day when they Google something or ask their phone for who performs the song that's playing in the background. You must know some of these people?
I don’t think that I would call every AI feature an AI Assistant, but sure, if that’s how you define “AI Assistant,” then you’re correct that I do in fact know people who use/want one. But I think that Google+AI or a music player is a pretty different product experience/design/market fit than a “personal AI Assistant” like an AI-powered Siri or Alexa or Google Assistant. I don’t know anyone who uses (or wants to use) the latter group for anything other than “Alexa, play XYZ”, or “Siri, set an alarm” which I wouldn’t really call GPT-4-level AI