The Washington Post
‘Bots’ are becoming more humanlike. What does that mean for 2020?
· Some Twitter users accused “bots” of promoting hashtags after the Democratic presidential debates. Here’s what you need to know about how online manipulation is evolving. · Shared by 36, including Thomas Power, Chris Messina, Jonathan Kogan, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Faik Ersoy, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Stephan Woodtli
MIT Technology Review
The biggest threat of deepfakes isn’t the deepfakes themselves
4 min · · The mere idea of AI-synthesized media is already making people stop believing that real things are real. · Shared by 28, including John Hagel, Chris Messina, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
CNET
This deepfake shows an impressionist taking on 20 celebrities, convincingly
1 min · · George Clooney, Colin Firth, Ian McKellan, Robert De Niro and Arnold Schwarzenegger are among the celebrities taken on by this voice actor using deepfake software. · Shared by 12, including Chris Messina, MΛRC VIDΛL
BBC News (World)
Trending - How worried should we be about deepfakes?
· It’s been a subject of scary headlines, but what’s the truth about fake video technology? · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
AI Papers
High quality, lightweight and adaptable TTS using LPCNet
· We present a lightweight adaptable neural TTS system with high quality output. The system is composed of three separate neural network blocks: prosody prediction, acoustic feature prediction and… · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
Data Science News
High quality, lightweight and adaptable Text-to-Speech (TTS) using LPCNet
4 min · · High quality, lightweight and adaptable TTS using LPCNet · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
Google AI
Contributing Data to Deepfake Detection Research
2 min · · Posted by Nick Dufour, Google Research and Andrew Gully, Jigsaw Deep learning has given rise to technologies that would have been thought ... · Shared by 42, including Mathew Ingram, AJ Ghergich, Chris Messina, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Bjorn Larsen, Carla Gentry 🎶, Johannes Lenz, Vikram Dutt
youtube.com
New Face Swapping AI Creates Amazing DeepFakes
· 📝 The paper "FSGAN: Subject Agnostic Face Swapping and Reenactment" is available here: https://nirkin.com/fsgan/ ❤️ Pick up cool perks on our Patreon page: h... · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
medium.com
Introducing Descript Podcast Studio & Overdub
4 min · · Today we’re releasing the version of Descript we’ve dreamed of since conceiving of the company: A full multitrack podcast production… · Shared by 6, including Chris Messina
eMarketer
The Who, What, When, Where and Why of US Voice Assistants
· In just a few short years, Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have gone from being virtual unknowns to familiar household names. As these voice assistants—and others—continue to gain traction on… · Shared by 18, including Chris Messina, Daniel Newman, Daniel Jörg
BBC News (World)
Emotional Machines: How Do People Feel About Using Smart Speakers and Voice-Controlled Devices?
1 min · · At BBC Research and Development, we are interested in voice technologies as we’re seeing an increase in audience engagement with BBC content on smart speakers. It is important that we understand… · Shared by 8, including Chris Messina
WIRED UK
The best Google Assistant compatible tech to build out your smart home
6 min · · Our edit of the first and third-party Google Assistant smart home kit to get you started with Google and Nest · Shared by 14, including Chris Messina
Axios
Axios Future
6 min · · Steve LeVine reports on the biggest ricochet story in our lives: robots, artificial intelligence, jobs, and global economics. · Shared by 14, including Chris Messina, Nathan Benaich
NPR
🔊 Listen Now: Experts Warn U.S. Should Prepare For Election Interference From China
· Politics on NPR One | 3:49 · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
WIRED
Facebook, Microsoft Back Contest to Better Detect Deepfakes
2 min · · Deepfakes are improving. The contest, which will include deepfakes created by Facebook, is designed to help researchers keep up. · Shared by 24, including Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Mari Smith, Chris Messina, Backchannel
medium.com
Announcing Audiocamp 🎧⛺️
5 min · · Making the call for teams building the future of audio. · Shared by 9, including Chris Messina, Sam Proud