Re: As far as I am concerned
"the genie however is out of the bottle"
celebrity impersonations already exist. I wonder if the tech could EVER compete...
There's that one Futurama episode when the prof's young clone built a voice impersonator using his father's voice - "Good news everyone! I'm a horse's butt" (episode 'The Route of All Evil' as far as I can tell)
And someone like Ferris Bueller could use this kind of tech to call in sick, and sound a lot more convincing.
All of the examples of Siri and Alexa that I've heard sound like robots (and vocaloids, too, unfortunately). Watson seems less so, but still 'robotish'. you can just "tell".
So I'd guess that impersonation tech may have the same kind of flaw for YEARS, maybe even DECADES, when "legit" tech can't even get it right. Genie out of the bottle? yeah, but he's a robot-sounding genie.