{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What A Lot Of Things: Tech talk from a human perspective","title":"Managing IT Suppliers and AI Voice Cloning","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/df5536cc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3857,"description":"In this episode, Ian and Ash delve into the complexities of managing IT service providers, exploring the challenges and strategies of working with consultancies and independent contractors. They also discuss the cutting-edge topic of AI voice cloning, examining its potential uses and ethical implications. From historical pirate accents to futuristic technology, join them for a thought-provoking discussion on how these technologies impact our work and the broader implications they hold for society.\nOur shiny new email address, as promised in this episode, is... technologyeeyores@whatalotofthings.com\nLinks\nOpenAI, and the not particularly relevant to this episode but still oft-mismentioned OpenAPI.\nBe More Pirate, the book where Ian found out why we think pirates all had British West Country accents\nPigeon Keeping – Wikipedia\nDiagram Industries blog, where Ash documented his learnings from the Ministry of Testing's \"30 Days of AI In Testing\" event.\nNaNoWriMo (National Novel-Writing Month)\nLinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app – TechCrunch, 27th March 2024\nhachyderm.io, the Mastodon server that Ian fruitlessly recommended to Ash\nNavigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices, OpenAI Blog, 29th March 2024\nFree Software: Freedom and Cooperation - speech providing an early overview of the Free Software movement, delivered by Richard Stallman on 29th May 2001.\nCrack Version 4.1: A Sensible Password Checker for Unix [PDF], white paper by Alec Muffett (estimated date, November 1991)\nOpen LLMs – Wikipedia, a list of open source LLMs, including Meta's Llama 2 as mentioned.\nHow one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript, The Register, 23rd March 2016\nEverything I know about the XZ backdoor, a rather heroic and very detailed explanation last updated (at the time of writing) on 8th April 2024\nAI Voice Cloning news linksOpenAI deems its voice cloning tool too risky for general release –...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6Ceg0sJ-5JbWn7OPuihNWo1I5J8tSwcAtHSmvR3xw4k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MWE2/NTRiNGZlYWIyOTE2/Nzg1ZGMyN2RlZWQ0/Zjc2YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}