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[Husky]

The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida is opening a new AI-driven exhibit this April, replicating Dali's voice, appearance, and mannerisms with shocking accuracy. Both eerie and brilliant. I'd rather like to visit this exhibit.

Dalí once said: "Si muero, no muero por todo," or "If I die, I won't completely die." Thirty years after his death, his words take on a new meaning at The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. "Dali Lives" uses artificial intelligence to let visitors experience his bigger-than-life personality in an up close and personal way.

I keep rewatching, I'm honestly amazed. How does this make you feel?

now how long till someone uses this tech to smear politicians

 

[Raynes]

#teamcg
Did they use deepfake technology for this? I've already seen lots of impressive visual copies of likeness of celebrities thanks to deepfake porn, so I'm more interested in the technology they use to replicate his voice. AI voice is notoriously difficult, and the fact that Adobe tried it with their VoCo demonstration but nothing ever came of it shows that it was a probably fake. I'd kill for AI vocal replication technology just so I can get audiobooks read in voices I like e.g. have Nikolaj Coster Waldau voice the ASOIAF books.

 

[Husky]

Did they use deepfake technology for this? I've already seen lots of impressive visual copies of likeness of celebrities thanks to deepfake porn, so I'm more interested in the technology they use to replicate his voice. AI voice is notoriously difficult, and the fact that Adobe tried it with their VoCo demonstration but nothing ever came of it shows that it was a probably fake. I'd kill for AI vocal replication technology just so I can get audiobooks read in voices I like e.g. have Nikolaj Coster Waldau voice the ASOIAF books.

I myself figured they must've used DeepFake tech, but the voice sure seems most impressive. I imagine it required a lot of fine-tuning from human hands, so we're probably not ready to have it read anything with text-to-speech.
Whatever techniques were used, this all comes out looking very impressive to me.

 

[Raynes]

I myself figured they must've used DeepFake tech, but the voice sure seems most impressive. I imagine it required a lot of fine-tuning from human hands, so we're probably not ready to have it read anything with text-to-speech.
Whatever techniques were used, this all comes out looking very impressive to me.

Yeah, especially since the source material would probably be of really low quality / sparse being from mid 20th century! Completely overlooked that.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

#teamcg
Did they use deepfake technology for this? I've already seen lots of impressive visual copies of likeness of celebrities thanks to deepfake porn, so I'm more interested in the technology they use to replicate his voice. AI voice is notoriously difficult, and the fact that Adobe tried it with their VoCo demonstration but nothing ever came of it shows that it was a probably fake. I'd kill for AI vocal replication technology just so I can get audiobooks read in voices I like e.g. have Nikolaj Coster Waldau voice the ASOIAF books.

Adobe could also have licensed the tech to government or other higher bidders behind the scenes if it showed impressive development. Any way realistic voice faking would be highly problematic, especially if it became nearly impossible to distinguish from a real person, that is scammer paradise.(loved ones asking for money, credit card numbers, or saying they're kidnapped, etc...)

 

[triplestation]

 

[Thurible]

"...I do not believe in my death... Do you?"

...Well duh of course I do. Dali is dead and "you" aren't him. "You" aren't even a thinking thing, let alone a living thing.

On to the topic at hand. It's pretty dang amazing they were able to make an ai that looks and behaves like him. How is that possible? This is pretty dang cool to be honest.

 

[Cunth]

dats munch

 

[EverydayBeast]

We were lucky to have Dali in some what modern times once again AI flexes as we've seen almost regularly

 

[Raynes]

Adobe could also have licensed the tech to government or other higher bidders behind the scenes if it showed impressive development. Any way realistic voice faking would be highly problematic, especially if it became nearly impossible to distinguish from a real person, that is scammer paradise.(loved ones asking for money, credit card numbers, or saying they're kidnapped, etc...)

What use would a government have for it? I doubt any bidder would be able to outdo the profit they would make selling it to consumers all over the world. It'd be realistic enough to fool us but would still always be detectable as a fake to computers. The wave patterns will always be different from real human voices, and analysing it through software/AI would give it away easily. Just like how no matter how good a photoshop is, you can always see left over trails like noise that give away the fact that it's been tampered with. And even if it can do the impossible of leaving no trail behind, do you think that will stop it from reaching the consumer's hands? It's the internet, so just like with what's happening with this deepfake technology, someone will make and release the technology to the public and no amount of intervention will be able to stop it once it's out.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

It's very cool and very alarming.

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

What use would a government have for it? I doubt any bidder would be able to outdo the profit they would make selling it to consumers all over the world. It'd be realistic enough to fool us but would still always be detectable as a fake to computers. The wave patterns will always be different from real human voices, and analysing it through software/AI would give it away easily. Just like how no matter how good a photoshop is, you can always see left over trails like noise that give away the fact that it's been tampered with. And even if it can do the impossible of leaving no trail behind, do you think that will stop it from reaching the consumer's hands? It's the internet, so just like with what's happening with this deepfake technology, someone will make and release the technology to the public and no amount of intervention will be able to stop it once it's out.

It could but the U.S. government has the ability to remove patents and sequester them on basis of national security, iirc. and do it again and again should the same technology emerge from someone else. They can also gag corporations regards certain new technologies on the basis of national security, or one would think so, as hiding patents is pointless if the corp is not gagged.. If they did, then it would have to be a hack like happened with the NSA tools for it to get out in the market.

At least until a foreign company matched whatever discoveries where made.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

Dali was always my favorite painter, this is really cool.

 

[#Phonepunk#]

i've been to that museum, it's wonderful. and that would be a cool place to see it.

replicating Dali's voice, appearance, and mannerisms with shocking accuracy

tbh i bet he is rolling over in his grave over that last part. i read his "autobiography" and it was a complete fabrication, just full of lies, and it was done that way on purpose. Dali really enjoyed fucking w people, so I think he would get a laugh out of the idea of this.

 

[HarryKS]

WTF.

 

[Husky]

WTF.

Good response.

 

[Aurelian]

It's not quite so clever as some people think it is. This is mainly a deepfake-style reconstruction of Dali's face over top an actor who looks and sounds close enough to Dali. It's still quite cool, but it's not like they've created a full-fledged Dali AI... yet.

 

[synchronicity]

How long until video evidence is not even admissible in court?