Considering the conflict ongoing there this is pretty scary. At the least the conflict will make it difficult for aid workers to help stem the flow of sickness, and at the worst this is a part of the conflict

Trumps brain is going to end up in a gemcutting exhibit so people can marvel at its profound smoothness

It boggles my mind that you can type out “I’ve already decided everyone who disagrees with me is faking it” and still think of yourselves as reasonable.

Closed source software has the exact same bullying issue, the difference is instead of the bullies being random people on the internet, they are managers with power over you. They are at least as likely to make you do something dangerous as the randoms, but they don’t have to try as hard to hide it.

I wouldn’t dismiss this just yet. Mozilla has already been doing some open source AI work, specifically their speech offerings. If they invest in these and they get better I think we all stand to gain from having good text to speech and speech recognition available outside of Apple/Amazon/Microsoft/Google

It’s almost like our economics models with supply and demand barely work for physical products and are even worse at modelling easily reproducible digital goods

I’ve done a little work on this professionally, and while I can’t discuss our solution, here are some links that I turned up doing research that might be what you’re looking for.

https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/2016/Chung16a/chung16a.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10010

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.02108.pdf

http://ailab.kaist.ac.kr/papers/pdfs/ACCV2016Workshop.pdf