Potential of AI being unlocked in medicine and space travel, but also crime
The potential of artificial intelligence is being unlocked in about every field from medicine to space travel to crime.For those with insights into the advancement of AI, it’s not a matter of if or when it becomes a major force in society. The future is much closer than that.“The early adopters are the one that are screaming from the rooftop warning. ‘Hey, this is here instead of this is coming. It’s here,’” said CEO of Enterprise Tech Association Summer Crenshaw. “We’re seeing the very early stages of advanced technologies that will transform society,” said Nexigen CEO and co-founder Jon Salisbury.One dimension of AI that’s already easily accessible on the internet is voice cloning.With just 30 seconds of a person speaking, AI can clone that voice.That process takes a matter of a few minutes. Once the clone is made, anything typed into the device will be said in the voice of the person cloned.There’s a video version of the same process. The image of the person cloned will say whatever is typed.Some use it to make presentations. Changes can be made without video editing. Just type in the new information and the change is seamless. It looks and sounds like the person cloned.Criminals are also using the technology by expanding scams they already do.By taking 30 of audio from a social media web site or an answering machine message, criminals clone the voice with sites already available.Those cloned voices can be used to extort money from family and friends of the person with the cloned voice.“I would have a secret passcode that my family has,” Salisbury suggests. “You need to have these types of ways that you can validate with your friends and family and that human connection,” Crenshaw said. “That’s one way that we can somewhat protect ourselves.”
The potential of artificial intelligence is being unlocked in about every field from medicine to space travel to crime.
For those with insights into the advancement of AI, it’s not a matter of if or when it becomes a major force in society. The future is much closer than that.
“The early adopters are the one that are screaming from the rooftop warning. ‘Hey, this is here instead of this is coming. It’s here,’” said CEO of Enterprise Tech Association Summer Crenshaw.
“We’re seeing the very early stages of advanced technologies that will transform society,” said Nexigen CEO and co-founder Jon Salisbury.
One dimension of AI that’s already easily accessible on the internet is voice cloning.
With just 30 seconds of a person speaking, AI can clone that voice.
That process takes a matter of a few minutes. Once the clone is made, anything typed into the device will be said in the voice of the person cloned.
There’s a video version of the same process. The image of the person cloned will say whatever is typed.
Some use it to make presentations. Changes can be made without video editing. Just type in the new information and the change is seamless. It looks and sounds like the person cloned.
Criminals are also using the technology by expanding scams they already do.
By taking 30 of audio from a social media web site or an answering machine message, criminals clone the voice with sites already available.
Those cloned voices can be used to extort money from family and friends of the person with the cloned voice.
“I would have a secret passcode that my family has,” Salisbury suggests.
“You need to have these types of ways that you can validate with your friends and family and that human connection,” Crenshaw said. “That’s one way that we can somewhat protect ourselves.”
