Tech Oxymoron #3: Speech2Face

Pradeep Aradhya

3 min readApr 11, 2022

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Apparently the safest way to be racist, sexist, ageist or grossly prejudiced is to be an AI that is born in MIT and hyped as ground breaking by its creators. Imagine if you closed your eyes and heard someone speak and decided how they looked. Perhaps black, perhaps chinese, perhaps illegal alien, perhaps dangerous?

MIT’s Speech2Face is being hyped as nearly there.

Pradeep Aradhya

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Exploring boundaries on culture, business strategy, and technology. Film maker, Kidlit Author, Technologist, Philanthropist, Investor, CEO

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