Coming Like a Freight Train
Ars Technica published an article this morning with AI voice demos from Sesame. It's here: Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online.
If you can tell the voices in the two samples aren't human, I'd be surprised. I can't. The second example is two persons conversing, one of which is AI. I couldn't tell them apart.
I discussed this with DQ Film Advisor and Greatest Guy in the World Ben Ormand, and he agrees that the samples are incredible. He sees all of this coming to Hollywood, along with AI video creation, but when he tries to explain, no one is listening.
It's coming very, very quickly.
The example he used was a group of outsiders making a film with a 500k budget that looks like it cost 150M to make. When that happens, people will finally understand, he said.
If what he mentioned sounds impossible, maybe it is, at least today. But fully creating a feature-length film with AI In 2-3 years? Maybe. In 5 years? Almost certainly.
One of my challenges this year is to stay briefed on what's happening in this field and to become proficient with the tools. It all sounds arcane, at first, but it's going to a primary driver of creativity going forward, whether we want it to or not, and I don't want to get behind.
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