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Mon. 03/08 - Replacing The Simpsons Cast with AI Voice "Actors?"

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Could The Simpsons replace their entire cast with AI replicas? A look at the scientific, artistic, and legal possibilities. Researchers have discovered an interesting trait in green tree frogs that they’re describing as built-in noise-canceling headphones. A few highlights from the 1,200 new words added to the German dictionary last year. And a website that lets you play streaming music on a vinyl interface. Sponsors: Fitbod, Get 25% off a membership at Fitbod.me/kottke Lightstream, Get a special interest rate discount at lightstream.com/kottke Links: Could The Simpsons replace its voice actors with AI deepfakes? (Wired) Digital Image Rights & Right of Publicity (SAG-AFTRA) Treefrogs have noise-cancelling headphones built into their ears (Popular Science) Coronaangst ridden? Overzoomed? Covid inspires 1,200 new German words (The Guardian) Needledrop: A turntable interface for music playback We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by Caseen Gaines  Jack Dorsey is offering to sell the first tweet as an NFT (CNBC) Boot fills Foot’s boots as Shoe Zone finance boss (The Evening Standard) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Could The Simpsons replace their entire voice cast with AI replicas, a look at the scientific, artistic, and legal possibilities?

0:52.8

Researchers have discovered an interesting trait in green tree frogs that they're describing

0:58.8

as built-in noise-canceling headphones.

1:02.5

A few highlights from the 1,200 new words added to the German dictionary last year,

1:08.2

and a website that lets you play streaming music on a vinyl interface.

1:12.7

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

1:18.1

With most of the actors who voice characters on The Simpsons well into retirement age,

1:23.8

and the show seemingly having no intention of ever stopping,

1:27.4

Amit Kadwala over at Wired UK wondered, could the show, seemingly having no intention of ever stopping, Amidicadwala over at Wired

1:29.0

UK, wondered, could the actors all be replaced with AI replications? And it makes a bit of sense

1:36.3

off the bat, you know, the proliferation of deepfakes circulating online aside, major movie

1:41.7

franchises have increasingly been patching together old footage of actors

1:45.6

who have passed away, like Carrie Fisher in The Rise of Skywalker and Paul Walker in Furious

1:50.9

Seven, or even just to fabricate a younger version of an actor who coincidentally had an entire

1:56.4

body of work from their teenage years to use his reference points, like Robert Downey Jr. in Captain

2:01.7

America Civil War, and Will Smith in Jiminai Man. And with The Simpsons, you'd only have to create

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