“For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent.”
For some reason this reminds me strongly of an old play-by-email game called C++Robots[1]. I loved the idea, but the timeslice limitation[2] I found too annoying.
I had youthful dreams of re-implementing something similar that would run on the Java Virtual Machine, where you could run the submitted robots via the debugger interface so you could keep "real-time" in the game environment more authentic. Ideas are cheap, follow-through is hard.
I've noticed a habit of late of people accusing a comment of being LLM generated if they disagree with it. It was getting quite tiresome a few weeks ago but seems to have died down.
I suppose it is possible that they are actually LLMs making the accusations? :-)
(I'm one of those weirdos that try to use proper grammar and complete sentences in text messages and instant messages.)
How have you been tracking down all the bits and pieces from your operating system that the agent still needs to do what it needs to? I'm working with Java projects and Gradle builds and the list of stuff is getting crazy.
The biggest hold-back for me is that, here in Australia, Google Wallet (aka Google Pay) is the only way you can do tap credit card payments that I know of. Can't with Paypal. Not with any banking apps that I know of.
It's just so damned convenient. And the recording of transactions on the phone saves me having to collect paper receipts.
It's also absolute awesome how every person's brain works the same way. It makes it some much more convenient that what works for one person works for every person.
I think perhaps the author's 35th lesson¹ is that brevity can lose nuance.
I interpreted this one to be in the context where having them in your orbit is causing you (or others) harm, and it ain't something you can fix.
¹ Actually it would be the 50th lesson. For some reason tacking on fifteen "bonus" lessons annoyed me. Felt like having your alliteration and eating it too. 51st lesson: math.
Is there any way to take a cloned voice model and plug into Android TTS and/or Windows?
I have a friend with a paralysed larynx who is often using his phone or a small laptop to type in order to communicate. I know he would love it if it was possible to take old recordings of him speaking and use that to give him back "his" voice, at least in some small measure.
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