The U.S. Supreme Court is a dumpster fire.
-- Supreme Court justices used personal emails for work
-- ‘burn bags’ were left open in hallways,
-- Staff afraid to confront justices on bad security practices
Here's the news story:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/politics/supreme-court-email-burn-bags-leak-investigation/index.html
And the SCOTUS report: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/read-scotus-report-dobbs/index.html
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The film dubbing industry will have an increasingly difficult time when any voice can be recreated from a short recording of just a few seconds and then be used to read aloud any text. Microsoft’s VALL-E is an early proof of concept.
https://mpost.io/vall-e-microsofts-new-zero-shot-text-to-speech-model-can-duplicate-everyones-voice-in-three-seconds/
When the technology is mature enough and the reading speed is controlled by an algorithm that enables lip-synchronous output, any actor will be able to speak any language without accent. Voice actors will then be superfluous.
Since the release of the first text-to-speech (TTS) model, researchers have been looking for ways to improve the way these systems generate speech. The latest model from Microsoft, VALL-E, is a significant step forward in this regard. VALL-E is a transformer-based TTS model that can generate speech in any voice after only hearing a three-second sample of that voice. This is a significant improvement over previous models, which required a much longer training period in order to generate a new voice. VALL-E is an amazing technological feat that has the potential to change the way we interact with digital media. Additionally, the intonation, charisma, and style of the voice are all kept intact in the generated speech. This is an important step forward in making TTS systems sound more natural. This model is transformer-based and has a Dale-1 appearance. Not to be confused with the diffusion-based Dalle-2. The code is still lacking. And users have some skepticism that they will post it. Microsoft’s VALL-E appears to be the most dangerous scam software ever However, Microsoft has released a few examples of the model in action, and it is clear that this is a major advance in TTS technology. Example #1: Example #2: Example #3: Read more about AI: Google AI Announced the First-ever Text-to-Music Generator AudioLMThe future of singing: How AI is making it possible for anyone to become a professional singerWavemaker: AI is a growth trend in the coming years, the “metaverse” is fictitious
There are a lot of private space companies who still use “manned” instead of “human” or “crewed”.
#nasa hasn’t used “manned” in our official nomenclature for ~ 20 years. It may sound pedantic, but women are still only 20% of engineering graduates - the same percentage as when I graduated.
Language and representation - think of job postings - matter.
#space #engineering #WomenInSTEM
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/manned-spaceflight-nasa/594835/
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