Episode 118: The Business Case for Deep Fakes with Descript's Kundan Kumar

Episode 5 April 23, 2020 00:20:40
Episode 118: The Business Case for Deep Fakes with Descript's Kundan Kumar
The Georgian Impact Podcast | AI, ML & More
Episode 118: The Business Case for Deep Fakes with Descript's Kundan Kumar

Apr 23 2020 | 00:20:40

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Jon Prial

Show Notes

Deep Fakes are incredibly realistic impersonations that blur the line between truth and fiction. So what happens when the tech to make them is available to everyone? We’re about to find out.

Kundan Kumar is our guest on this episode of the Georgian Impact Podcast. He is co-founder of Lyrebird AI, and now heads up research at Descript. Descript is making it vastly easier for anyone to manipulate audio, even to the point of inserting words that were never actually said. This brings up obvious ethical, trust, and security questions. Fortunately that’s something Kundan and the company are putting a lot of thought into.

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Who is Kundan Kumar?

Kundan Kumar is Research Lead at Descript and co-founder of Lyrebird AI. He is a PHd student at Mila, Quebec’s artificial intelligence institute, where he works on generative models for sequences e.g. speech and music.

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