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This dystopian device warns you when AI is trying to impersonate actual humans - C C - May 29, 2017
http://www.sciencealert.com/this-wearable-ai-warns-you-when-the-voice-you-re-talking-to-isn-t-human
EXCERPT: Scared of a future where you can no longer discern if you're dealing with a human or a computer? A team of Australian researchers have come up with what they call the Anti-AI AI. The wearable prototype device is designed to identify synthetic speech and alert the user that the voice they're listening doesn't belong to a flesh-and-blood individual. Developed as a proof of concept in just five days, the prototype makes use of a neural network powered by Google's Tensorflow machine learning software...
RE: This dystopian device warns you when AI is trying to impersonate actual humans - Magical Realist - Jun 3, 2017
I immediately detect the robovoice on youtube videos and click it off. I hate it. What gives it away is the tonal artificiality of the voice. It's messed up that way. A lack of smoothness in pitch variations. There is an instinctive musicality in the human voice that AI will be hard pressed to get right.