Talking to computer systems will be irritating—ask anybody who’s been on the telephone lately to automated buyer companies. A decade in the past, the arrival of voice assistants reminiscent of Amazon’s Alexa or Apple’s Siri was speculated to mark a brand new period in how people interacted with machines, however their limitations shortly grew to become obvious. In current months, although, computerised voices appear to have moved light-years forward. You can now have a dialog with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. You can clone your individual voice. You may even generate and work together with a personalised podcast, the place AI presenters will talk about any paperwork you want. The voice AI revolution has lastly arrived. How will it change the way in which we work together with the digital world?
Host: Alok Jha, The Economist’s science and know-how editor. Contributors: Alex Hern, our AI correspondent; Vasco Pedro of Unbabel; Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs; Steven Johnson of Google Labs.
