Explore More Actor Stephen Fry, the British voice behind the “Harry Potter” audiobook series, revealed that artificial intelligence was used to mimic his distinct accent for a documentary that he knew nothing about.
“I said not one word of that — it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” said Fry, who has narrated more than 100 hours of the beloved JK Rowling series.
“They used my reading of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created and it made that new narration,” Fry played a snippet of the AI-generated audio and warned of the dangers posed by the technology at the CogX Festival in London last week, according to Fortune. Read More...
Sometimes, a feel-good drama series about a woman threatening to take down patriarchy is exactly what we need. Set in the 1950s, ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ is based on a historical fiction novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus. It follows the brilliant and ambitious scientist Elizabeth Zott, who is fired from her research institute after the news of her pregnancy is revealed.
This is not the only hardship she has to face, and she’s constantly reminded of how women need to stay restricted to the domestic space. Read More...
In the first episode of Paramount+’s Western series ‘Lawmen: Bass Reeves,’ Bass fights the Union Army as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge. He displays his bravery and resilience on the battlefield, however, against the force that takes part in the battle for the freedom of his community. As the show depicts, Bass really fought in the Civil War for the Confederates. his involvement is documented by historians who dived into his legendary life and some of them have even claimed that he can be the inspiration behind the iconic Lone Ranger, the masked former Texas Ranger who safeguards the Wild West from outlaws. Read More...
