AI will save us from yanny/laurel, right? Wrong
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/18/ai-will-save-us-from-yanny-laurel-right-wrong/
If you haven’t taken part in the yanny/laurel controversy over the last couple days, allow me to sincerely congratulate you. But your time is up. The viral speech synth clip has met the AI hype train and the result is, like everything in this mortal world, disappointing.
Sonix, a company that produces AI-based speech recognition software, ran the ambiguous sound clip through Google, Amazon, and Watson’s transcription tools, and of course its own.