kvasserman

I built this site to help researchers and public to find US gov publicly available data using my open-source search system. The site runs on 2 vCPU cloud instance. For detailed technical deep-dive on how it's implemented you can visit my blog post (the link is in the footer of the site).

Any feedback is very welcome.

This, in fact, is already happening. Elderly are getting duped by scammers using voices of their relatives/children.

Ironically, one of the thing that makes written word by AI recognizable as AI is that it's too perfect. Too polished. Now think about speech patterns, they are way more than voice frequencies, tones and phonemes. One can say the same phrase gazillion different ways, with different pauses, cadence, inflections, intonations and even pitch. Humans speak "imperfectly." It's very contextual too: in many situations, we voice the same words very differently. Again, it's possible that I don't know what I'm talking about, but every example of machine talking that I've heard, I felt it was too mechanical, precisely because it was lacking the nuance of how real humans speak.

I think of it this way. LLMs suppose to be good at generating text/writing, right? Well, they are not very good at it. They generate plausible content that superficially makes sense. Most people can easily tell AI generated slop from human writing. I suspect that mimicking human voice is multiple levels more difficult for LLMs than mimicking human content. The level of nuance that humans produce in their speech is probably staggering. So I maybe completely wrong, but I see no evidence so far to support the idea that either LLM's writing or speaking is going to get much better any time soon.

I thought that AI would at least be good at 2 things: writing (text) and doing UI. It's not good at either. Text it generated reads like slop and UI it creates looks like slop. The way I approach it now is this: for text, I have to write it myself and only use AI to check grammar and catch weirdly phrased passages. For UI, it's like with the rest of the code. You have to stay on the top of it and keep demanding changes to match your vision/architecture/taste until it gets it close to what you want. In both cases, not knowing what "good" looks like is a real problem, because AI definitely has no idea.

It turns out I had some DNS issues. It should be up now. Sorry.

Just to add a bit more context. These are pretty detailed benchmarks showing relevance and latencies of the search engines across 4 different datasets. These are the sort of numbers I wish existed on the internet, but they did not. Or at least I couldn’t find any.