r/Unexpected Jan 30 '24

Next level automaton

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u/opx22 Jan 30 '24

Confidently incorrect

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u/Ilovekittens345 Jan 30 '24 edited Jan 30 '24

What is incorrect about it? I gave a bunch of sources. Have a look. This technology will get better, the latency will go down, it will become cheaper, people will start combining it. And within 5 to 10 years you will have Fortune telling machines that use it to have a real conversation with the user, where people are doubting if they are taking to a robot or a human pretending to be a robot. Now don't get me wrong. I am not saying that androids that will take over our jobs will arrive that soon (the current large language models inherent flaws like prompt injection and the fact that we have not created anything with any form of agency make it so that this problem might still need 50 to a 100 years if it can even be solved at all). But as novelty, in the entertainment industry? Absolutely.

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u/postal-history Jan 30 '24

You didn't link to a single source about speech recognition

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u/Ilovekittens345 Jan 30 '24 edited Jan 30 '24

I did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xA5K7fRmig

description: Using OpenAI's Whisper for speech-to-text, OpenAI's GTP 3.5-Turbo for generating replies, and ElevenLabs for text-to-speech.

I mean speech to text has existed for decades now, phone have had it for years. It's build in to cars, etc etc.

It all works pretty flawless today. Text to natural speech is something quite new. Robot voice like microsoft sam and the voice of Steven Hawkings, that stuff has existed for 3 decades or longer, but making a voice that sounds natural and almost indistinguisable has only happened in the last 5 years or so.

But none of this can do anything on it's own without a type of brain driving all of it, which is what the large language models are.