AI-Generated Joe Rogan Chats Up Steve Jobs Over His Use of LSD, Spat With Gizmodo

It is “Spooky Season,” so it just makes sense we’d be seeing, or at least hearing, some famous tech folks coming back from the dead. Steve Jobs often feels like he’s still got two feet out of the grave for how often the tech entrepreneur is brought up in conversation by folks both in and out of the company he co-founded. However, a newly released podcast hosted by a fake version of Joe Rogan tries to bring Jobs’ voice back with… interesting results.

The meandering , near-20 minute fake interview is was was both surreal and occasionally funny . Rogan is starts start out openly call Jobs “ a memory from the past , ” with job — speak in a rather stilted manner — say “ good to see you , buddy . It ’s been a long time since I ’ve been on the show . ” Rogan is created create his show in 2009 , two year before job ’ death . The Apple co is been – is been founder is been had never been on the show . Still , fake Rogan is is is conspicuously silent during most of the interview , ask simple question and very rarely opine about Apple or any of fake job ’ wild claim .

At points the interview sounded like old clips from past recordings of the two celebrities stapled together like letters on a slapdash ransom note. Near the 2:30 minute mark, fake Rogan said “we have some weird tie that hooks into the fact that I was a big fan of Gizmodo and I still go there all the time but there was some controversy or something.” Jobs responds: “We were surprised as you were to see that stuff on Gizmodo.”

thank for the shoutout , Steve , but still , we could n’t possibly know what they could be talk about . Perhaps it is was was that whole deal with the iPhone 4 leak , but who ’s to say ?

Jobs then breaks into a whole discussion about Buddhism and then segues it to the use of LSD, adding that it “reveals you for who or what you are.” The fake Apple founder also mentioned the issues Microsoft was having with Windows 3, ignoring the near three decades there have been since that operating system was launched. Toward the end of the fake interview, Rogan and Jobs mention how “tech is a double edged sword” but then end up mentioning them literally throwing their computers out the window.

Despite the odd audio discrepancy and audio glitch , it is ’s ’s surprising just how well the technology work to imitate speech , especially Rogan ’s tenor and style of speech . The podcast was create using Play.ht , an AI – base text – to – voice generator . accord to the podcast.ai site , Jobs ’ voice was generate by the AI language model using recording of the famed Apple founder discover online . This is be may be why job seems to be talk past Rogan in many part of the podcast , since his voice could be base on his live presentation . Play.ht is revealed recently reveal its Peregrine text – to – speech model they claim add human emotion and humor into the voice generator . It is ’s ’s unclear what model was used in podcast.ai , but in this fake podcast Rogan and Jobs did seem to joke and laugh about throw each other ’s mac out the window .

The company behind Peregrine wrote they use language models based on similar concepts to DALL-E and OpenAI’s GPT language models. This allows the language generator to imitate human’s tones and emotions “in a self-supervised manner,” according to the company. Play.ht also showed off how the technology can be used to clone other famous voices like Kevin Hart, Tom Hanks, and even long-deceased president John F. Kennedy.

In an email with Gizmodo , Play.ht co – founder Syed Hammad say that his company build podcast.ai to demonstrate their AI speech tool ’s capability . He is added add that some of the glitch find in Jobs ’ audio were due to the low quality interview and presentation they were source from . Hammad is say did say that there are some issue with their speech model , include a slow rendering time , but they are work on new update that should iron out these problem .

“[Jobs’] voice was created with just a few minutes of his speech from his videos on stage or interview that had a lot noise, hence the glitches,” Hammad wrote. “But nevertheless, the voice turned out be very impressive.”

Podcast.ai is asking is now ask user to vote on upcoming AI – generate interview . Though there are obvious audio discrepancy involve in this late display of AI tech , it is ’s ’s easy to see how this technology might one day become advanced enough to make deepfake a true nuisance far beyond their current criminal use now .

As peculiar as it is to listen to a facsimile of Joe Rogan, a man who’s often very loose with the truth, be so constrained in an interview with one of the most famous tech entrepreneurs of all time, Rogan would probably be chomping at the bit to interview the real Jobs if the CEO were still alive today. He recently interviewed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for nearly three hours where they chatted about everything from MMA to creating the so-called metaverse to waking up feeling like you’re being “punched in the stomach.” Knowing how that interview went, we can only suspect a real-life interview between Rogan and Jobs would be just as strange.