An expert on voice recognition and speech technologies responds to Ysabelle Cheung's "Galatea." When Joseph Faber invented the Euphonia, a mid-19th century analog voice synthesizer, people weren't impressed. They found Faber's invention to be a strange device with little to no purpose. In an attempt to create a machine that could mimic human speech, Faber was physically tethered to his invention, manipulating its bellows, gears, and hardware to produce human-like utterances--from short speeches to ghostly renditions of "God Save the Queen"--with a flat affect. One version of the machine was designed with a feminine face attached to its bellows, hair in ringlets and fair, smooth-looking skin.

It will be foggy tonight; visibility will be bad tomorrow. The pollen count is high. You have given Galatea your old wool hat, and she looks soft and childlike, as if she has just returned from a long hiking trip and is about to fall asleep. "Do you think they'll remember you?"

Image generators such as DALL-E and Midjourney are powerful tools that through a combination of data mining and analysis link ideas with visuals. By typing a few words anyone can generate high-quality images. Across the world, this is causing shockwaves and widespread fears of the loss of jobs for human artists. Have we indeed reached a watershed moment in the evolution of AI Art? Yes, but it's not the one you think. The current tools are incredibly powerful, but narrow in scope.

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It would seem that the much-feared death by AI prophesied in dystopian cinema has already begun but there is more than meets the eye finds Satyen K. Bordoloi In the Terminator film series, the aim of the Artificial Intelligence machines is to exterminate humans. In the Matrix world, they use humans as batteries. In films like 2001 A Space Odyssey (1969) or Ex Machina, it is individuals who are at risk. As you can guess, harmful AI has been a favorite film trope even before the real advent of AI which began only after the 2010s. Since then, though, AI watchers would be keenly aware that yes, those movies are exaggerations but that does not mean the dystopian vision they foresaw, isn't coming true – slowly and stealthily. In November 2017, 14-year-old Molly Russell ended her life.

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