Audacity has added AI audio editing capabilities thanks to Intel’s free OpenVINO plugins. These plugins add AI-powered noise suppression, speech transcription, music generation and remixing, and music separation to the freeware sound editor and are available for download today.
The current wave of AI is around Large Language Models or LLMs. These are basically the result of a metric fuckton of calculation results generated from running a load of input data in, in different ways. Given these are often the result of things like text, pictures or audio that have been distilled down into numbers, you can imagine we’re talking a lot of data.
(This is massively simplified, by someone who doesn’t entirely understand it themselves)
And this is why current AI is nowhere near sentience or anything else that occasionally comes up in the press. Ultimately it’s an algorithm (or set of algorithms) which ingest a bunch of training data and later regurgitate the most common patterns, albeit with some context-sensitive cues thrown in.
That’s one reason why AI image generators can’t, on average, produce images of e.g. a broken radio: because there are no broken radios in their training data.