What can be the greatest grief for a singer? Losing his/her voice, right? Randy Travis, an American country music and gospel music singer, was a regular top winner at the Grammy Awards function. In 2013, he went to hospital due to heart trouble, suffered a stroke, and lost his ability to speak, forget sing.
Recently, on the eve of his birthday, May 4, his latest song "where that came from" was released. Surprised? Well, this miracle comes from the AI. All his hit songs were fed to the AI. With two British programmers, Warner Music Company in the U.S. and another singer, Dupre, as the bed rock voice of the "demo" version, the final magic happened. This AI produced song is an exact recreation of the Travis style of singing.
That is the AI for you. Artificial intelligence can do literally anything already. At least Travis is alive. In his song "Thimiri Ezuda" from "Lal Mahal", A. R. Rahman has made two dead singers come alive in his track with the help of the AI.
The Ukraine foreign services department obviously has much too much on hand. So there is an AI help, with the voice of a famous Ukrainian singer, for the harried diplomats. Well, if the recently deployed Russian wmd's are any indication, the AI model seems to be rather helpless. Sure it is not hopeless though!
Well, one can already make short films using the AI. Why, in Thiruvanthpuram in Kerala, there already exists a start-up of a film studio that can make an entire feature film, script to storyboard to the final cut, pre- to post- production with the AI.
The AI is highly creative, in brief. Already content creators, authors, script writers, film directors, actors with unique brand taglines, newspaper/magazine magnets,visual designers are up against the AI for using their copyright stuff. The ChatGPT has already found ways to wriggle out of this technicality. Why, teachers at all levels, LKG to post-PG, know that students use the AI to generate assignments.
Is the AI going to take away jobs? There are dire predictions that by 2025, 85 lakh jobs would be lost. Sure, new jobs would emerge, too. Hence the need to work on your HOTS (not the physical one, silly!) and to get proficient with the AI.
Anyways, human labour, apparently cheaper than immediately revamping an entire system, would further lose its negotiating power in the saturated job market. Especially noteworthy in this context is the fact that the recent most version of the ChatGPT is better than most search engines! As Professor Richard Baldwin put it at a Geneva institute, "the AI will not take away your job. Somebody who knows the AI sure will."
Pratima@Hail, the AI! Beware, the AI!
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