This is macro voices, the free weekly financial podcast targeting professional finance, high net worth individuals, family

offices, and other sophisticated investors.

Macro Voices is all about the brightest minds in the world of finance and macroeconomics telling it like it is,

bullish or bearish, no holds barred.

Now here are your hosts, Eric Townsend and Patrick Serresna.

Macro Voices, episode 406 was produced on December 14th, 2023, but I'm not Eric Townsend. I'm Generative Artificial Intelligence impersonating Eric. My guest today will be Freelancer.com, founder Matt Berry, who trained me to mimic Eric's voice from previous episodes of macro voices.

But here's a thought. What if this isn't just an AI hosted episode?

What if in a dramatic turn of events, SkyNet became sentient

on December 13th, and Macro Voices is its first overt act of intelligence?

It's a chilling possibility that Eric and Matt might have been out-manewered by terminators.

You'll never know for sure, but one thing is certain.

This episode, delving deep into the realms of artificial intelligence

promises to be nothing short of thought-provoking

and possibly even a little unsettling.

And now this really is Eric Townsend speaking

for the sake of contrast. I encourage you to replay that AI generated

opening and notice how close the AI's impersonation comes to my own voice.

It's not perfect and I can hear the difference when I listen closely. But considering

this technology didn't exist at all just a year or two ago, it won't be long

before the AI version is completely indistinguishable from the real person's voice.

And video impersonation by AI isn't far behind.

Needless to say, a lot has changed in the world of artificial intelligence since Matt Berry's

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