![]() She does use inflection, which means that you would need to detect the inflection and modify the re-synthesis accordingly. I agree that translating Siri’s voice to text would be nearly trivial. If you just use pitch shifting, you end up with something that just sounds like a guy trying to sound like a girl. There are other characteristics of speech that come into play, such as the magnitude of pitch modulation within words. I don’t think that filters would be easier, because it takes more than just pitch shifting to make a female voice sound like a male voice or vice-versa. Posted in Arduino Hacks, home hacks Tagged arduino, hal 9000, mdf Post navigation We’ve seen a similar build with a Raspberry Pi. If you really want to be HAL, you can build a costume. The memory cards are acrylic and the key is machined brass. Inside the MDF enclosure is an Arduino and a wave shield that handles the audio playback. The key is like the one Dave used to deactivate HAL in the movie. As you can see in the video below, the build has HAL-style memory units, a key, and can speak phrases from the movie (well, 28 of them, at least). ![]() He settled on making it just be an extension cord with USB ports. His goal wasn’t to interface with his smartphone’s virtual assistant, though. had the same problem so he decided to build his own eye. The problem is, it still sounds like Google or Siri, not like HAL. There’s something seductive about the idea of having a HAL eye answer your queries to Google Now or Siri. Its claim to fame was that it looked like the “eye” from the HAL 9000 computer on 2001: A Space Oddessy. All that to say it's a fair bet that in another 50 years HAL 9000 will still be in the future.A few years ago, you could buy an IRIS 9000 Bluetooth speaker. We haven't even begun to program AI to feel real emotions, and the chief reason for that is that we don't really understand how, or even why, emotions work in humans. We can program AI to simulate and mimic emotional responses, such as sympathy, but that's not at all the same thing as actually experiencing anxiety about something like imminent extinction. ![]() Do we have any emotional robots out there? Not really. ![]() I'm afraid." HAL's existential dread is at the core of the character's endurance as a pop culture icon. Let's go back to that opening quote and zero in on the question of HAL's emotional capacity. We're nowhere close to having a single AI with HAL's magisterial range of capability. So back to that question: Are we anywhere close to HAL 9000? Taken as a whole, we can definitively say, absolutely not. Meanwhile, Siri or Google Home can perform simple tasks in response to specific questions, but they've been shown to have the IQs of children. Yes, we've got IBM's Deep Blue, which has defeated the world's greatest chess masters, and IBM's Watson, which trounces all comers at "Jeopardy!" But ask those two computers to switch roles and they would be flattened by 12-year-olds. The answer oscillates between very-much-so, somewhat and not-at-all depending on what aspect of HAL you're focusing on. Clarke, it's been 17 years since the eponymous space-odyssey was supposed to take place. Never mind the half-century since Kubrick co-invented this miraculous machine with author, Arthur C. Unlike most sci-fi flicks, which are typically crammed full of action and noise, Kubrick was unafraid to let his audience experience the slowness and silence of space.īut speaking of accuracy, where are we with HAL? In the movie, it demonstrates mastery of, among other things, space travel, chess, chitchat, art appreciation and, with disastrous results, lip-reading. Thanks, in part, to the film's much-vaunted accuracy in depicting the peculiarities of space travel, Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece ranks among the greatest science fiction films ever made. I'm afraid." Fifty years after audiences first saw, or rather, heard, HAL 9000, the homicidal artificial intelligence in "2001: A Space Odyssey," its melancholy end still evokes a pang of empathy. When '2001: A Space Odyssey' premiered 50 years ago, living and working in space was only science fiction not anymore.
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