Subvolts take See AI's real-world impact, from voice synthesis to sports analytics. Feb 22, 2022 - Developers
- Learn about generative audio models and their applications in accessibility and beyond.
- Business
- Discover how AI is being applied to improve forecasting and enhance sports performance.
- Everyday users
- Understand how AI is already impacting your voice assistant and potentially weather reports.
This episode offers a solid overview of AI's practical applications, featuring insights from leading researchers.
Me, myself and AI
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This Google DeepMind podcast episode explores AI's real-world applications. Host Hannah Fry experiences a voice recreation using WaveNet, learns about deepfake uses in weather forecasting, and hears about DeepMind's collaboration with Liverpool Football Club. The discussion features insights from DeepMind researchers and the UK Met Office.
AI can now copy your voice to help people who can't speak easily. It also helps predict the weather better and is being used to improve how athletes play sports. You'll hear about these cool AI tools.
This episode shows AI moving beyond labs into practical uses. Listeners learn how AI can mimic voices for communication aids, enhance weather predictions, and even impact sports analytics. It's for anyone curious about AI's tangible benefits and its integration into everyday services and industries. The examples connect directly to current frontier AI developments in generative models and applied AI research.
- HostHannah Fry
- GuestDemis HassabisDeepMind
- GuestRaia HadsellDeepMind
- GuestKarl TuylsDeepMind
- GuestZach GleicherDeepMind
- GuestJackson BroshearDeepMind
- GuestNiall RobinsonUK Met Office
- Episode Title: Me, myself and AI
- Show: Google DeepMind: The Podcast
- Length: 36 minutes
- Voice Synthesis: WaveNet powers Google Assistant and aids speech-impaired users.
- Deepfake Use: Improves weather forecasting.
- Sports Collaboration: DeepMind partners with Liverpool Football Club.
AI doesn’t just exist in the lab, it’s already solving a range of problems in the real world. In this episode, Hannah encounters a realistic recreation of her voice by WaveNet, the voice synthesising system that powers the Google Assistant and helps people with speech difficulties and illnesses regain their voices. Hannah also discovers how ‘deepfake’ technology can be used to improve weather forecasting and how DeepMind researchers are collaborating with Liverpool Football Club, aiming to take sports to the next level.
For questions or feedback on the series, message us on Twitter @DeepMind or email podcast@deepmind.com.
Interviewees: DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, Raia Hadsell, Karl Tuyls, Zach Gleicher & Jackson Broshear; Niall Robinson of the UK Met Office
Credits
Presenter: Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Production support: Jill Achineku
Sounds design: Emma Barnaby
Music composition: Eleni Shaw
Sound Engineer: Nigel Appleton
Editor: David Prest
Commissioned by DeepMind
Thank you to everyone who made this season possible!
Further reading:
A generative model for raw audio, DeepMind: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio
WaveNet case study, DeepMind: https://deepmind.com/research/case-studies/wavenet
Using WaveNet technology to reunite speech-impaired users with their original voices, DeepMind:| https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Using-WaveNet-technology-to-reunite-speech-impaired-users-with-their-original-voices
Project Euphonia, Google Research: https://sites.research.google/euphonia/about/
Nowcasting the next hour of rain, DeepMind: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/nowcasting
Now DeepMind is using AI to transform football, WIRED: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/deepmind-football-liverpool-ai
Advancing sports analytics through AI, DeepMind: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/advancing-sports-analytics-through-ai
MetOffice, BBC: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
The village ‘washed on to the map’, BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28523053
Michael Fish got the storm of 1987 wrong, Sky News:
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