Back in 2019, a few engineers in Toronto cloned Joe Rogan's voice so well they were too nervous to release it. Two of them just helped build an AI that has never read a single word, and it laughs at your joke before you've even finished telling it. Their 2019 project was called RealTalk. Fake Rogan pitched a hockey team made of chimps and rambled about being trapped inside a robot. The real Rogan heard it and said it was terrifyingly accurate. Even Alex Krizhevsky, the guy who built AlexNet…

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