The Anti AI AI is a device built to detect machine intelligence simulating human voice.
Artificial Intelligence can detect the world around you, it can beat the game of Go, and it’s learning new things every day, while living in products (especially, smartphones) you use. As AI research progresses, many have suggested a future when these machines rise to rule over humans. In fact, one of the central problems AI researchers face is that a truly intelligent device should always want to overthrow its creators.
It is this kind of a dystopian future that research and development company, DT, is foreseeing. With machines being able to replicate human voice, DT has developed a machine that can detect such voice and literally send a chill down your spine. The company calls it the Anti AI AI, which is a wearable device that sits behind your ear. It uses a 4x4mm thermoelectric plate to send a “noticeable chill on the skin near the back of the next, without drawing too much current”. DT is also the company behind Dumb Ways to Die 2, an app that uses dark and quirky humour to promote train safety.
The company is positioning the Anti AI AI as an IoT device, which runs on a custom circuit board, built on SparkFun Electronics’ Simblee BLE Arduino chip. There’s also a custom iOS app that goes along with the device, which acts as a conduit for a Tensorflow application “running a neural net trained on synthetic voices.” The company has posted all its code on Github.
Further, DT says it built the Anti AI AI in 5 days, but this is only a prototype. “An end-to-end powerful Tensorflow neural net connected to a custom wearable BLE device. When the circuit boards arrive from the manufacturer we’ll bring it all together as a wearable device and continue to improve our neural net with more synthetic content as it is released,” the company wrote in its post.
Examples of speech synthesis by an AI
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