The Homogenisation of Humanity with Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell, Jason Kapadia and Felina Tan - E93
AI can clone your accent, or replace it. Is this the point that we start to lose authorship over humanity?
Fake bands, automated sports officials and dialect-shifting technology are all at the heart of an existential episode of Disconnected this week, so join Jag, Jen, Jason and Felina to explore the preservation of dying languages and controversial content revolutions.
This episode of Disconnected covers:
How AI technologies can preserve regional accents, or homogenise them
The emergence of AI-created music and the balance between tech innovation and human creativity
Wimbledon's shaky implementation of automated line calling
Switzerland's new transparent, multilingual LLM which hopes to democratise AI access
Episode Highlights:
“We need to start labelling AI generated music, otherwise we’ll be tricked into believing these are real bands.” - 15:05 - Felina Tan
“Historically, people always resist new tech. We've talked about that many times in different examples, but innovation always wins.” - 20:15 - Jag Sharma
“People underestimate the amount of human error that went on prior to this being brought into play.” - 29:20 - Jen Campbell
“The new Grok is the smartest thing to ever exist - it’s smarter than all PhDs combined.” - 42:25 - Jason Kapadia
Links & references:
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagsharma
https://www.instagram.com/jagsharma/
Felina Tan: