This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Synthesias AI clones are more expressive than ever.
Soon theyll be able to talk back. Rhiannon Williams Earlier this summer, I visited the AI company Synthesia to give it what it needed to create a hyperrealistic AI-generated avatar of me.
The companys avatars are a decent barometer of just how dizzying progress has been in AI over the past few years, so I was curious just how accurately its latest AI model, introduced last month, could replicate me.I found my avatar as unnerving as it is technically impressive. Its slick enough to pass as a high-definition recording of a chirpy corporate speech, and if you didnt know me, youd probably think thats exactly what it was.
My avatar shows how its becoming ever-harder to distinguish the artificial from the real. And before long, these avatars will even be able to talk back to us.
*Reporting by Technologyreview.*
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