The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable Diffusion, and then ChatGPT, the first text-generation model to break through in a major way. It seems clear to me that this is a new epoch in technology.
To determine how that epoch might develop, though, it is useful to look back 26 years to one of the most famous strategy books of all time: Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, particularly this passage on the different kinds of innovations:
Most new technologies foster improved product performance. I call these sustaining technologies. Some sustaining technologies can be discontinuous or radical in character, while others are of an incremental nature. What all sustaining technologies have in common is that they improve the performance of established products, along the dimensions of performance that mainstream customers in major markets have historically valued. Most technological advances in a given industry are sustaining in character…
Disruptive technologies bring to a market a very different value proposition than had been available previously. Generally, disruptive technologies underperform established products in mainstream markets. But they have other features that a few fringe (and generally new) customers value. Products based on disruptive technologies are typically cheaper, simpler, smaller, and, frequently, more convenient to use. Read More
Daily Archives: January 10, 2023
Researchers fear Microsoft’s ‘dangerous’ new AI voice technology
According to ArsTechnica, Microsoft has developed an AI system that is capable of using machine learning to accurately mimic the voice of anyone, complete with novel, generated sentences, based on just three seconds of audio input.
… According to the report, Microsoft engineers know this technology could be dangerous in the wrong hands, being used to create malicious “deepfakes.” A system that convincingly fakes people’s voices could do everything from discrediting celebrities or politicians with fake racist quotes, to discrediting a former spouse in a custody dispute. It could even be used to create virtual pornography of a person without their consent, or be used in wire fraud by impersonating a CEO to trick companies into transferring their money. Read More
Microsoft’s VALL-E can imitate any voice with just a three-second sample
Artificial intelligence can replicate any voice, including the emotions and tone of a speaker.
- Microsoft recently released an AI tool called VALL-E that can create convincing replications of people’s voices.
- The tool uses just a 3-second recording as a prompt to generate content.
- VALL-E can replicate the emotions of a speaker, differentiating it from several AI models.
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