The Simpsons Sometimes is an insightful satire about the absurdness of family life and media landscape in modern America, sometimes a slapstick comedy about Homer, which brings his body to hell for his latest stupidity, but whatever she is in a certain week, the show is always anchored by his voices. Apart from Dan Castellaneta, no other person has spoken to life in as many characters as Hank Azaria. Recently, the man who said more than 150 Simpsons Characters wrote an op-e-eD in The New York Times Explain his fear and grief about the prospect of artificial intelligence the voices that he has developed for decades.
With the title “Can characters be alive without people?” The piece of Azaria – known for being expressed unforgettable Simpsons Characters such as Moe Szyslak, boss Wiggum and APU LaachaSapeemapetilon – delete a possible future in which human language actors are replaced by artificial intelligence to replicate the voices of these iconic characters. He explains a sick irony in the fact that his decades of Simpsons Language exploration, which was enjoyed by billions of people about the illustrious 36-year-old run of the show, could essentially help to train AI to replace it.
“I imagine that soon enough artificial intelligence will be able to reproduce the noises of the more than 100 votes that I have created for characters The Simpsons Over four decades, ”he writes. “It makes me sad to think about it. Not to mention it, it just seems wrong to steal my similarity or my sound – or to steal that of another. “
He suggests that there are aspects of the voice output that AI may facilitate. “If I know that a certain line needs a laugh, but I'm not sure how to get one, I will try out different things. I will create a list of eight or nine options to try it, ”he wrote. “The AI model may not know what is funny or what the timing is, but it could do a million different settings. And it could be said that I should do it that way – and it could be quite convincing. “
Despite this light concession to the advantages of AI, he uses his lengthy open-e-ed to shine on how nuanced language layer is and how it will not be easy without replicating people. For him, acting is more than just reading lines, it is a marriage of the voice of a person and his acting skills. Cry real tears to give life to the sobs of a character; Run in place while taking lines for a character that runs; Pour a lighter into the mouth to convey the sound of a cigar chill; These are all actions that Azaria has implemented to address the characters we love at a human level.
“I would like to think that no matter how much a KI version of Moe, Snake or Chief Wiggum how my voice sounds, something is still missing – humanity. There is so much of what I am, what goes into creating a voice. How can the computer summon all of this? “
The existential threat that AI represents for actors Collective agreement (CBA) signed according to the strike of the authors and actors of 2023, which makes the actors' consent to a necessity before digital replicas are created in their voice and similarity. Despite these protective measures, however, there are still gaps in which a AI model can be trained with the performance of an actor under certain contractual clauses.
Azarien's concern is real, and its fears could be the reality of what we hear and see on our television screens in the future. I'm sure The Simpsons Episode that all satiring will be amazing.
