I wrote a tribute to Yankees announcer John Sterling on his retirement, and what he taught me not just about baseball, but about what makes us human: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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Today, artificial intelligence makes it trivially easy to clone any voice, whether your own or President Biden's. Does that mean a computer might one day replace sports announcers, trained to mimic the cadences of the greats? I explain why it would fail: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@Yair_Rosenberg The AI would also be unlike John Sterling in that it would get calls right.
@Yair_Rosenberg It’s one thing for AI to mimic a great actor’s voice. It’s another for AI to deliver an Oscar-worthy performance in his voice.