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It's Father's Day but Shelly has her eye on the thrown. This week, Trevin is fighting a battle with  Emily's protein while Amanda has another dumb product that she low-key kinda wants. Two Truths and a Lie teaches us about James Vlahos' AI app and the history of pinky promises. Then, the crew gets down, dirty and daddy with Father's Day stories both connected by Shelly. Today's Stories: Daddy's Devotion Father's Day in CuffsFor ad-free episodes and lots of other bonus content, join our Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/LiveLaughLarceny Check out our website: HereFollow us on Instagram: HereFollow us on Facebook: HereFollow us on TikTok: HereFollow us on Twitter: Here If you have a crime you'd like to hear on our show OR have a personal petty story, email us at livelaughlarceny@gmail.com or send us a DM on any of our socials!

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When you listen to a radio programme, watch an animated film, or even receive a phone call, it's unlikely you'll question whether the words you're hearing are coming from the mouth of a human being. But all that could be about to change thanks to the rise of ‘voice cloning'. Elaine Moore is a tech columnist at the Financial Times and she's interested in the ramifications of this new technology. Thanks to artificial intelligence, cloning a human voice can be achieved with just a few minutes of recorded audio. As the technology becomes more sophisticated and its use more widespread, how will this affect our society, our politics and our personal interactions? And is it time we were able to control what happens to our own voice both now and when we die? With contributions from: Carlton Daniel, lawyer at Squire Patton Boggs. Tom Lee, co-founder of LOVO. David Leslie, Ethics Theme Lead at the Alan Turing Institute. Rupal Patel, founder & CEO of VocaliD. Tim McSmythurs, AI Researcher and creator of Speaking AI. James Vlahos, co-founder of HereAfter AI. Producer: Craig Templeton Smith Editor: Jasper Corbett

Con José Miguel Tomasena y Emma Rodero. Ya es posible generar música o imágenes a través de inteligencia artificial. Ya las máquinas ganan a los humanos, de modos inesperados, al ajedrez y al go. Este podcast termina pensando la creatividad de los algoritmos. Y con una confesión de Vosotres, que es toda una sorpresa final. AUTORES CITADOS: Marcus du Santoy, Ed Finn, Kai-Fu Lee, Gred Kohs, Cathy Pearl, Trevor Cox, Jason Mars, Clifford Nass, Diana Deibel, Rebeca Ivanhoe, Kat Vellos, James Vlahos, Holly Herndon.

Online learning has been a major focus since the pandemic started and we share 3 tips to help parents manage their kids' online learning experience to reduce the stress around the house. Also, tech expert, Marc Saltzman, gives us some great tech gift ideas just in time for the holidays. Plus, we talk to James Vlahos, cofounder of HereAfter, which is an A-I platform designed to allow people to have spoken "conversations" with loved ones who have passed away based on recordings taken while they are still alive. In Socially Speaking, we dive into Twitter Fleets and give you our verdict on if it works for the platform or not. Find out more information from our guests here: marcsaltzman.com hereafter.ai You can also find both AmberMac and Michael B on Twitter.  

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James Vlahos is the founder of Hereafter AI, a company that enables anyone to create a chatbot avatar of a real person. James' interest in chatbots started in the 1980s on a Commodore PET computer and was rekindled in 2015 when, as a reporter, he wrote a story about PullString's work on Hello Barbie. That led to him creating Dadbot, a chatbot that captured the memories and thoughts of his father that at the time was battling Stage IV cancer.  After completing a book on tech's many decades of voice assistant innovation called Talk to Me, James founded Hereafter AI in 2019. We discuss what he learned from his early experience with rudimentary chabot designs of the 1980s and how his experience building a chatbot to memorialize his father offered unique insights into the tradeoffs of these types of endeavors. We cover a series of questions James has not been asked before and he offers some interesting insights that will be of value to any voice assistant designer.  James earned a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. Over his career, he has written for many publications including The New York Times, GQ, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, National Geographic Adventure, and WIRED. 

In this episode, Teri welcomes James Vlahos, Founder and CEO at HereAfter, a company that uses conversational AI to help people save and interactively share life stories so that they never have to lose the voices of people they love.Welcome, James!HereAfter is an AI platform designed to allow people to have spoken "conversations" with loved ones who have passed away, based on voice recordings taken while they are still alive. The conversations are made possible by platforms like Amazon Alexa. James is also the creator of DADBOT, a veteran tech journalist for The New York Times, and author of “Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think” His book addresses the economic, cultural, and psychological impact of conversational AI and how it’s altering our traditional perception of human consciousness.His Tech JournalismHe wrote about diverse technology oriented topics, from the HyperLoop to businesses using smell to lure customers into making purchases.From 2015, he developed an interest in Siri and Alexa because he was fascinated by the fact that what we had been learning from science fiction about personified beings who could have conversations with us was actually becoming a reality.He wanted to write about the two voice assistants but ended up approaching it from a different angle, instead writing about how Hello Barbie was created by a company called PullString. PullString was acquired by Apple.For him, writing about that was a great way to get into how to create a dialogue system and teach a computer how to talk. It led him deeper into voice technology.Writing His BookWhen he did the Hello Barbie project, he could see that it was just the tip of the iceberg, and he could see that Amazon, Apple, and Google were battling each other in the voice technology race, and so he knew there was great potential in the space.He realized he couldn’t just fit everything about voice technology into an article so he decided to put it in a book.HereAfterHe was inspired to create it when his late father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and had a few months to live.James did a conventional oral history project with his father, recording him talking all about his life. He got hours of recordings and had them professionally transcribed.Around the same time, he was involved in conversational AI while researching for his book, and he realized that voice technology was a new way to share those recordings of his father in such a way that he could somehow hold on to him even after he had passed way.He created a conversational app that could be accessed on Facebook Messenger. One could create messages on the app and get audio/video clips from it. He called it the DADBOT.DADBOT has been the basis for everything he has worked on and created ever since.They are working on making HereAfter a scalable technology that anyone can use. They are on Amazon Alexa exclusively and expect to be on Google Assistant soon.They have received mixed feedback from the market. For example, most people want to wait before they record their memories, almost like how people always put off writing a will.Signing Up on HereAfterOne starts by signing up for the service, after which they are orally interviewed by someone in the company.The company then records the person’s life story in a very structured manner with the end product in mind.The audio is then edited and put into the HereAfter system so that when an end user asks a question about that person via Alexa, they hear that person’s voice answering them from the actual recording of that person.They are currently developing an app that will do the interviewing.HereAfter has positively impacted families and enabled them to capture the life stories of their loved ones for the benefit of their present and future family members.Remembrance Versus ReplicationScience fiction movies like HER show us a world where people can have relationships with AI beings on their phones and other devices, which brings up the question of whether we could possibly continue relationships with loved ones who have passed away through technologies like HereAfter.James reiterates that HereAfter is just an advanced tool for remembrance rather than for replication.List of resources mentioned in this episodeHereAfter WebsiteJames on LinkedinThe Comprehensive Flash Briefing Formula CourseThe Voice DenVocalID.aiOther useful resources:Voice in Canada: The Flash BriefingComplete List of Alexa CommandsAlexa-Enabled and Controlled Devices in CanadaTeri Fisher on TwitterAlexa in Canada on TwitterAlexa in Canada Facebook PageAlexa in Canada Community Group on FacebookAlexa in Canada on InstagramPlease leave a review on iTunesShopping on Amazon.ca See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Tech journalist and University of Oregon graduate James Vlahos joined us last spring to discuss his new book “Talk To Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform The Way We Live, Work, And Think.” It’s all about the quest to teach digital devices how to talk and listen — and what that means for the humans that interact with them.

Welcome to episode #692 of Six Pixels of Separation. Here it is: Six Pixels of Separation - Episode #692 - Host: Mitch Joel. In case you have not noticed, I could not be more bullish on the power of Smart Audio. From smart speakers and Alexa to Google’s voice assistant technology, chatbots and artificial intelligence. This space has been looked at analyzed in the book, Talk To Me - How voice computing will transform the way we live, work and think by James Vlahos. James is a journalist (who has written for the New York Times, Popular Science, The Atlantic and Wired). He wrote a cover story in 2017 for Wired , which was all about his startup (now called HereAfter), which - at the time - was really a chronicle of how he programmed his own AI chatbot to resemble his late father. This program, called DadBot, has evolved. The smart audio space continues to evolve. When people ask me what the future of technology is, Smart Audio is at the top of my list. So let’s dive in deep, and see what’s got everyone talking. Enjoy the conversation…  Running time: 56:14. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on Twitter. Here is my conversation with James Vlahos. Talk To Me - How voice computing will transform the way we live, work and think. HereAfter. Follow James on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'.

Writer James Vlahos explains how voice computing will change the way we liveBy Angela Chen theverge.comThis audio is available in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India as a Flash Briefing on @amazonecho devices and the #Alexa app (even without a device), as well as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Search for “The Smart Speakers”. The links referred to are at: https://www.thesmartspeakers.com/links Also check out my 28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing - a step-by-step course in building a better briefing for your brand or business or self. It's available in the Alexa Skills store https://skills-store.amazon.co.uk/deeplink/deviceType=app&shdp/B07N75H7HM?are&refSuffix=ss_copy Produced by Peter Stewart (@TweeterStewart) #voice #voicefirst #voiceAI #smartspeakers #Alexa #flashbriefing #WomenInVoice #AI #VUI #FlashBriefing #FlashBriefings #podcasts #technology #AlexaLive #Voice19 #Echo #smarthome

Writer James Vlahos explains how voice computing will change the way we liveBy Angela Chen theverge.comThis audio is available in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India as a Flash Briefing on @amazonecho devices and the #Alexa app (even without a device), as well as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Search for “The Smart Speakers”. The links referred to are at: https://www.thesmartspeakers.com/links Also check out my 28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing - a step-by-step course in building a better briefing for your brand or business or self. It's available in the Alexa Skills store https://skills-store.amazon.co.uk/deeplink/deviceType=app&shdp/B07N75H7HM?are&refSuffix=ss_copy Produced by Peter Stewart (@TweeterStewart) #voice #voicefirst #voiceAI #smartspeakers #Alexa #flashbriefing #WomenInVoice #AI #VUI #FlashBriefing #FlashBriefings #podcasts #technology #AlexaLive #Voice19 #Echo #smarthome

James Vlahos explains how voice computing will change the way we liveBy Angela Chen theverge.comThis audio is available in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India as a Flash Briefing on @amazonecho devices and the #Alexa app (even without a device), as well as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Search for “The Smart Speakers”. The links referred to are at: https://www.thesmartspeakers.com/links Also check out my 28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing - a step-by-step course in building a better briefing for your brand or business or self. It's available in the Alexa Skills store https://skills-store.amazon.co.uk/deeplink/deviceType=app&shdp/B07N75H7HM?are&refSuffix=ss_copy Produced by Peter Stewart (@TweeterStewart) #voice #voicefirst #voiceAI #smartspeakers #Alexa #flashbriefing #WomenInVoice #AI #VUI #FlashBriefing #FlashBriefings #podcasts #technology #AlexaLive #Voice19 #Echo #smarthome

James Vlahos explains how voice computing will change the way we liveBy Angela Chen theverge.comThis audio is available in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India as a Flash Briefing on @amazonecho devices and the #Alexa app (even without a device), as well as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Search for “The Smart Speakers”. The links referred to are at: https://www.thesmartspeakers.com/links Also check out my 28 Day Flash Briefing Briefing - a step-by-step course in building a better briefing for your brand or business or self. It's available in the Alexa Skills store https://skills-store.amazon.co.uk/deeplink/deviceType=app&shdp/B07N75H7HM?are&refSuffix=ss_copy Produced by Peter Stewart (@TweeterStewart) #voice #voicefirst #voiceAI #smartspeakers #Alexa #flashbriefing #WomenInVoice #AI #VUI #FlashBriefing #FlashBriefings #podcasts #technology #AlexaLive #Voice19 #Echo #smarthome

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Tech journalist and University of Oregon graduate James Vlahos joins us to discuss his new book "Talk To Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform The Way We Live, Work, And Think." It's all about the quest to teach computers how to talk and listen — and what that means for the humans that interact with them.

In this week’s #DataTalk, we chat with James Vlahos about his latest book, Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think. James Vlahos  is the author of TALK TO ME: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way that We Live, Work, and Think (Houghton Mifflin, March 26, 2019). Covering the business, technological, and cultural ramifications of the voice revolution, the book has been described by readers such as Wired editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson as "brilliant and essential." Vlahos is also the creator of the Dadbot, a conversation-making program that shares the personality and life story of his late father, and of an Alexa skill, The Voice Computing Book. Vlahos contributes to the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Popular Science, The Atlantic, and GQ. Follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn Check out our upcoming data science live video chats.

What happens when you have a deep dive into AI for an hour? You find out Jeff is a closet Taylor Swift fan (according to a chatbot) and Francis has real fear of a robotic Barbie. This all happens thanks to author James Vlahos joining the show who, coincidentally, wrote a book about AI called Talked to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think. That's right people, loopholes are real and they are spectacular.

Technology has become more hands-free, thanks to voice-activated digital assistants like Alexa and Siri. Have a question? Ask away. But in the future it won’t be just a matter of using this technology to find out facts or to determine the best route home. James Vlahos, author of “Talk to Me - How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Think,” explains how companies are trying to make the Alexas and Siris of the world more sociable. Voice tech that can apply background knowledge and understand context will be able to have more complex conversations with users. Vlahos says that these devices will create a more human-like experience, and could be used in customer service, healthcare, counseling and industries which require a robot with a more social side.

Voice assistant apps like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant are about to transform the economics of the web. Nearly a quarter of all households in the US and in China already have a smart speaker in their homes, allowing them to play music, order a delivery or find out the news, all by simply talking to their computer. Meanwhile an estimated 2.5bn smartphones now carry these wannabe AI oracles. Manuela Saragosa asks Silicon Valley analyst Carolina Milanesi whether this new technology could one day rival the conversational prowess of the ship's computer on Star Trek. And what kind of vision do the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon have for it? Meanwhile journalist and author James Vlahos explains why he thinks their advent is bad news for anyone who wants to maintain any visibility on the internet. And we put his criticisms to one of the major players - Andrew Shuman from the team behind Microsoft's Cortana voice assistant. Producer: Laurence Knight (Picture: Amazon Echo Sub subwoofer; Credit: Philip Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Elaine Moore talks to American journalist James Vlahos about the chatbot he created to keep the memory of this father alive and about the potential uses and misuses of voice technology. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Dustin and I are joined by journalist and author, James Vlahos, to discuss the details of his book Talk to Me: How voice computing will transform the way we live, work and think.Where to listenApple podcastsSpotifyYouTubeCastBoxSpreakerTuneInBreakerStitcherPlayerFMiHeartRadioAbout Talk to MeJames Vlahos writes for the likes of WIRED, New York Times Magazine, Popular Science and GQ. His new book Talk to Mechronicles how the world’s biggest tech companies are battling to dominate voice—Siri, Alexa, Cortana, and the Assistant—the biggest technological paradigm shift since mobile phones. The book tracks the strange scientific quest—from humanoid talking contraptions of the 19th century to the latest AIs—that has resulted in our being able to say something to a voice assistant and receive an intelligible reply. And it explores voice computing’s potential to upend control of knowledge; to befriend, advise, and surveil; and to preserve memories of lost loved ones, as with James' Dadbotproject.“Voice computing will profoundly reshape the way humans relate to machines, and Talk to Me is a brilliant and essential guide to what’s coming. James Vlahos understands how the technology works and all the complex things it will bring into the world—and he’s a superb writer too. You’ll find insights and meaning on every page, and you’ll keep turning them. This book is dynamite.” — Nicholas Thompson, editor in chief, Wired “Conversational AI is a genuine paradigm shift in our experience with technology. Vlahos brings the whole story to life, from big-picture historical context to the impact on our intimate personal lives. A thoughtful and enjoyable read.” — Tom Gruber, cocreator of Siri“James Vlahos has written an excellent book on how voice computing has become more and more of a growing presence in our everyday world. In Talk to Me, he provides the promise and peril of this development.” — Ray Kurzweil, inventor, author, and futurist“The baton of disruption has been passed from the smartphone to voice, and Vlahos helps make sense of this tectonic shift.” — Scott Galloway, author of the bestseller The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and GoogleLinksCheck out the book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Book Passage.Follow James Vlahos on Twitter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Len teaching a creative writing class at Belmont Hill School Audio starts at 12:59 and ends at 54:39 News “Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer” by James Vlahos at Wired - February 18, 2019 Tech Tip “How to hear (and delete) every conversation your Amazon Alexa has recorded” by Natt Garun at The Verge - February 28, 2019 Audio from my presentation at Belmont Hill School Blue Yeti microphone - $103 at Amazon.com Libsyn.com Wattpad Medium MailChimp Tech Tonic podcast with John Thornhill Evil Genius podcast with Dave Slusher Pardon My Take podcast The Joe Rogen Experience podcast Next Week's Guest AG Riddle, author of Winter World, released February 26, 2019 Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.

Don’t miss this last episode of our special Connected Health Conference mini season featuring a very impactful interview with James Vlahos.  Listen as he shares the story with Dr. Kvedar of how the loss of his father led to the creation of the “Dadbot”.  Their conversation raises many important questions about the intersection of AI... Read more »

Artificial intelligence may never do away with life's two guarantees: death and taxes. But AI is changing the way people process them; memorial chatbots, for example, can take a loved one's emails, social media, texts, and videos to create a digital facsimile of the dearly departed. And there are so many ways that AI, in theory, could make paying taxes less painful. Along the way hosts Phil Libin, Jessica Collier, and Blaise Zerega respond to listener questions about Walmart's patent for drone bees and AI in France. Show notes Welcome Ready Player One trailer (1:37) Isle of Dogs trailer (1:45) Dogs in the All Turtles office (1:58) Listener correction (2:45) All Turtles Podcast Episode 21, where “barrel” instead of “bunch” was used to describe those affected by the actions of one bad individual (skip to 16:30) Memorial chatbots discussion (4:42) Swedish funeral agency seeks participants for memorial chatbots (4:50) Wired cover story on James Vlahos's Dadbot (5:53) The Verge story on Eugenia Kyuda's Roman bot (6:40) Shameless plug (19:33) Subscribe to the All Turtles newsletter here, for a weekly collection of news and analysis about AI and entrepreneurship, complete with AT job listings! Taxes and practical AI  (20:58) IRS Audits Drop To Lowest Level Since 2002 news report on WBUR(21:19) H&R Block using Watson to process tax returns (21:54) Credit Karma using AI (21:59) Conversation with Josh Browder from DoNotPay from Episode 21 (skip to 14:34) (22:27) Listener questions (29:11) What's up with Walmart patenting drone bees? Do they really intend on stepping into the AI arena, or do you think it's just a ploy to remain relevant to consumers in a retail apocalypse environment? (29:20) Last week, President Macron of France made a public announcement of €1.5 billion to support AI projects and called for the creation of a national program. Previously, he attended the opening of Station F and has been very public of his support for tech. What's All Turtles' French strategy, and how will it give value and visibility to French developers in light of this recent news? (31:01) We want to hear from you Please send us your comments, suggested topics, and questions for future episodes: Email: hello@all-turtles.com Twitter: @allturtlesco with hashtag #askAT For more from All Turtles, follow us on Twitter, and subscribe to our newsletter on our website.  

General Manager Fire Tablets & Kindle and Amazon Echo & Alexa Product Marketing Interview starts at 15:16 and ends at 39:43 “I loved what I had heard about the leadership principles, particularly the customer obsession and innovation which I was seeing externally. As I came through the hiring process and since my first day that has been the reality. And so I just really love how the company obsesses about customers and looks to invent every day. That's what really attracted me here.” News “Alexa briefly lost its voice amid widespread Amazon Web Services outage” by Chris Welch at The Verge - March 2, 2018. Amazon Web Services service health dashboard Thanks to James McQuivey of Forrester Research for his comment on the Alexa outage (included in audio) “Why Amazon is Immune To Almost Any Boycott” by Cale Guthrie Weissman at Fast Company - March 2, 2018 “Amazon Buys Ring, Maker of Smart Home Products” by Nick Wingfield at The New York Times - February 27, 2018 “Amazon named Presenting Sponsor of Digital Book World 2018” by Bradley Metrock - February 25, 2018 Click here to register for Digital Book World 2018 October 2-4, 2018 in Nashville “Inside the Alexa Prize” by James Vlahos at Wired - February 27, 2018 “Ebooks are not ‘stupid'--they're a revolution” by Erin Kelly at The Guardian - February 21, 2018 “Amazon is in talks for a huge new office in Boston--and it drastically ups the HQ2 intrigue” by Dennis Green at Business Insider - February 28, 2018 “Shoppers would welcome an Amazon cryptocurrency, survey says” by Aaron Hankin at MarketWatch - February 27, 2018 “Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble” by Stephen Johnson at The New York Times Magazine - January 16, 2018 Tech Tip A rave review for Readwise.io Interview with Kevin Keith “The votes are in: Alexa loses her voice but Amazon wins USA Today's Ad Meter” by Erik Brady at USA Today - February 5, 2018 Would You Rather for Family skill for Alexa Sensible Object's “When in Rome” game for Alexa (available this summer) Word Wise for Kindle Content Consider Phlebas (A Culture Novel Book 1) by Iain M. Banks “Amazon Studios to Adapt Consider Phlebas, First Novel of the Culture Series, for Television” - Amazon Press Release February 21, 2018 Next Week's Guest Brad Parks, author of Closer Than You Know: A Novel, which will be published by Dutton on March 6, 2018. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

James Vlahos wanted to keep his dad around for as long as possible, so he saved the best part about him in the best way he knew how. Vlahos is also working on a book, Talk To Me, about the quest to create conversation-making A.I.s. Check out his article about dadbot in Wired Magazine. Follow James on Twitter @jamesvlahos  Producer: Jazmin AguileraOriginal Score: Renzo Gorrio Season 8 Episode 30

"In the neurological netherworld between sleep and wakefulness, the mind's delirium can turn tragically real." by James Vlahos.

"In the neurological netherworld between sleep and wakefulness, the mind's delirium can turn tragically real." by James Vlahos.