Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Will AI ever give a TED talk?

I love a good TED talk (although I have to admit that the offshoot TEDx presentations can be less engaging).
Having an expert in a different and often unexpected subject give an interesting perspective or historical account can be exiting and 'food for thought'.

However, I have been wondering if we will ever knowingly or unknowingly get a TED talk from an Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Perhaps trained on all the transcripts of previous TED presenters, to give a new view or explanation?
(As long as they don't use the TEDx sources too, I guess we should be OK)

1 comment:

Hayden said...

So far... artificial intelligence has never given a TED talk. TED talks are typically given by humans, and there are no AIs that are capable of giving talks at the level of a human. However, there have been a number of TED talks about AI, and some of these talks have featured AIs in a supporting role. For example, in the talk "How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life," the speaker, Pierre Barreau, uses an AI called AIVA to generate music. AIVA is not the main speaker in the talk, but it plays an important role in demonstrating the potential of AI to create art.