The Infinite Conversation website was launched this week by an Italian artist and programmers named Giacomo Miceli. You can see the portraits of the two men on the site, which is not affiliated with either person. There is a transcript of artificial intelligence-generated text highlighted in yellow between them. You can skip between the segments by clicking on the arrows beneath the portraits. The site's creator believes that upcoming technologies may undermine trust in media in the future. The aim of the project is to raise awareness about the ease of using tools to make a real voice. Anyone can do this with a laptop in their bedroom. Listeners might be more likely to believe that iek might say things that are difficult to understand if they think they're coming from the director of the philosophy department. It almost sounds like the real thing when the GPT 3 model behind The Infinite Conversation spits out nonsense. This is an example of what the fake Herzog said. In a way, Freud also has something to do with literature.
He was, after all, a writer.
Yes, he was a scientist, he wanted to
be a scientist, but he was also a writer
who wrote these strange stories.
There's something that seems at odds with each other in Freud.
On the one hand, he had such a
strong anthropological vision, which I find very attractive
on the other hand, he was limited in his understanding of cultural history.
He was very antiquarian, for him antiquity was
the most important epoch because it clearly revealed drives
whereas the Middle Ages were just nasty.
Only towards the end of his life did
he see anything good in the Middle Ages.
The dialog is going on for a long time. Miceli wrote that when you open the website, you are taken to a random point in the dialogue. A new segment of the conversation is added on a daily basis. It takes more time to listen to new segments than it does to generate them. This conversation could last until the end of time.
He wrote on Hacker News that he might create an explanatory write-up within the next week, although he declined to give technical details. He wrote in the FAQ that the script was created using a popular language model that was fine-tuned on interviews and content authored by each of the two speakers.
Technology that can manipulate your voice using artificial intelligence or even allow someone to impersonate someone else has been covered on Ars. A fake interview between Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan was powered by the same voice synthesis technology that was used in the October show.
Even though we are on the forefront of a new age in synthetic media, will the machines make sense? That is not the case yet. Miceli writes that everything you hear is created by a machine. The opinions and beliefs are not representative of anyone. They are the thoughts of a piece of metal.
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