Startup Idea: Using AI to talk to the dead ft. Kevin Rose [CLIP]

0:00yeah I mean four or five years ago maybe a little bit longer now gosh was probably is longer now there was a Coachella where Tupac was on stage as a hologram yeah rapping along sides alongside Snoop Dogg and and some other folks um and that was a huge unlock SL wow moment for a lot of people they're like they brought someone back from the dead for a performance it's kind of crazy right A lot has happened since then and now we have you know AI voice models that can be trained on like five words and create like pretty accurate you know voice voices that are that are basically you

0:40could take just the five words that I say and then train on my voice and and spit out full paragraphs of of of copy that sound exactly like me and it even gets better if you just train for a few minutes of with data right so there is very much a world where if I'm in my studio here I can put up a green screen for my guest I can um you know create my guest and i' I've seen it even working now where you can actually take and you can lip sync uh or so you can lip I guess it is lip sync you're syncing their lips to what

1:12they're saying um they do this for different languages so right now I could be speaking Spanish to you or Japanese and my lips would look like I'm speaking Japanese if you just run it through this post-processing um uh production that's out there uh what I would do is I would say okay let's just take a great flosser like Allan Wat um if you go to Alan watts. org his website you can download 500 hours of his talks right like that an MP3 format again with the training you could go and take all that data and say okay I'm taking that entire Corpus I want to understand who alen wats is his

1:46philosophies feed in some of his books as well and all of a sudden you have a pretty interesting you know compelling AI model that will speak and act and talk and think like Alan Watts now I can sit down and in real time have a conversation and interview people that have passed away I could do this with Einstein you could do this with a whole slew of different people and actually you know have fullon conversations and yes the AI is kind of filling in some of the gaps and trying to come up with his best Assumption of how they would answer certain things but if you have enough

2:20data I'd imagine you get pretty close I think it would be a fun experiment I don't know there's this is not a business this is just more like a thought experiment like what if we went and tried this to see what would happen I mean you could do this with all different types of leaders both good and bad that have passed away um you know you can imagine some pretty extreme examples of previous leaders that were pretty evil that you could bring in you know their data and thinking and it just um yeah it would just be fascinating to see how this unfolds and I have to

2:51imagine it's coming soon what about taking it to the next level with speaking to people in our lives that have passed away oh 100% yeah yeah that that would be the problem there is like just do you have enough data like I have my my dad's passed away you know uh 13 years ago now something like that and I think about what I have of him and I have a few recordings of him saying a few things bunch of emails but they were you know just little two three sentence things here and there so I don't know that I have the data required for that but we certainly will

3:35like my kids will be able to do that with me for sure that's for sure yeah that's for sure and I was thinking about this the other day because my dad my dad was like cleaning out a closet and he had found a bunch of DVDs um like old family videos and he sent me he sent me a bunch and I hadn't seen these people like you know as you know my late my late grandfather my other late grandfather I haven't seen them videos moving pictures of them in such a long time um and there's just something about watching someone in video that like you really it hits different than a photo

4:18yeah I just it's funny you say that I just got done sending my entire box of old videos uh mostly VHS honestly and getting them converted by company and they sent him to me and I hadn't seen my grandma in you know since she was alive like like almost 30 years ago or something I was a little kid you know I saw her last and just to see her there was in talking was such a trip such a trip and I mean the MVP of this like even if you don't have enough video footage of your grandmother but you knew a few things that she used to say and

4:54you have maybe some of her voice like just like good morning Kevin like hope you have a great day um yeah yeah it's it's really it's funny that we were just talking about Alan Watson I saw somebody hacked a Raspberry Pi to be their voice assistant and they used alen watt's training data and it was like totally alen watt saying good morning like you know enjoy your day today you have three meetings or whatever and I was like what the hell like it's so such a trip such a trip and I I just think that I know I personally would pay tons of money for something like that um yeah so I think

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