Microsoft quietly revealed a new type of AI (it may quietly petrify you)

It had you at hello. 

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It's quite a privilege being one of the last, whole humans.

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I'm conscious that in the tangible future, the artists formerly known as humans will be a touching hybrid of flesh and chips.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised, then, when Microsoft's researchers came along to slightly hasten the despairing future.

Well, this perhaps: "VALL-E emerges in-context learning capabilities and can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt."

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I've often wanted to emerge learning capabilities. Instead, I've had to resort to waiting for them to emerge.

And what emerges from the researchers' last sentence is shivering. Microsoft's big brains now only need 3 seconds of you saying something in order to fake longer sentences and perhaps large speeches that weren't made by you, but sound pretty much like you.

I won't descend into the science too much, as neither of us would benefit from that.

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