TORONTO - Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but at Klick Labs, it's all about the voice. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * TORONTO - Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but at Klick Labs, it's all about the voice. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? TORONTO – Eyes may be the windows to the soul, but at Klick Labs, it’s all about the voice.
The Toronto-based research arm of life sciences technology firm Klick Health has found a way to analyze voices in a manner that’s so granular, it can tell whether it’s a person or an artificial intelligence-powered machine. The capability comes as the number of deepfakes — AI-produced video, audio clips or photos that appear real – has exploded with the recent release of several AI chatbots. Everyone from pop star Taylor Swift to U.
S. President Joe Biden and the Pope have fallen victim to the phenomenon. And it’s not expected to abate any time soon.
The European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol recently predicted as much as 90 per cent of online content may be synthetically generated by 2026 and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has called the situation “a real threat to a Canadian future.” But Yan Fossat, Klick Labs’ senior vice-president of digital health research and development, is hopeful his companycan helpmake the world of AI a bit safer. “Every technology that’s not regulated is dangerous and this is .
