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I spoke with an AI version of myself, thanks to Hume's free tool - how to try it

EVI 3's voice cloning feature has its shortcomings. But those are significantly overshadowed by its remarkable qualities.

And no matter what I prompted it to speak about, it tended to find some creative and roundabout way to circle back to the topic I was discussing when I recorded my voice as a sample for it to use, reminiscent of an experiment from Anthropic last year in which Claude was tweaked to become obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge. When I then asked EVI 3's voice clone of myself to elucidate its thoughts on the nature of dark matter, it quickly found a way to bring its response back to the subject of music, comparing the mysteriously invisible force pervading the cosmos with the intangible melody that imbues a song with meaning and power. In less than three years, we've gone from the public release of ChatGPT to AI models that can more or less convincingly simulate real human voices and tools like Google's Veo 3, which can produce realistic video and synchronized audio.

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