Human Is Replaced By Artificial Intelligence?

    In this blog entry I’m gonna talk about, a non-human DJ. A non-human DJ have taken to the airwaves on August 24th in San Antonio, Texas, in which made a mark another step on the path that puts flesh-and-blood radio personalities out of a job.

   The DJ is an artificial intelligence program called Denise and was built by Guile 3D Studio to serve as a virtual assistant to answer phone calls, check email, conduct Web searches and make appointments, among other tasks.

   Dominique Garcia, a radio personality in San Antonio, purchased Denise for $200 and programmed the AI to serve as a DJ. Denise have hit the airwaves on Aug. 24 from 1 to 4 p.m. CST on KROV.

   Gracia claims that “a lot of radio DJs are pretty upset with me because it does work” – but at the moment, Denise does need the help of human assistance to write the script so that Denise can perform her talk breaks, while slotting the voice track into the playlist. Bear in mind that Denise is relatively useless without a talented writer who can write a compelling script for the listeners. Anyone willing to write scripts for shock jocks like Howard Stern?

   For the most part, the script writer tells Denise exactly what to say, though “she” has the capability to tell jokes when asked, provide the weather forecast and look up things on the Internet. She can’t, however, fill airspace by herself.  That technology does not yet exist in the AI world,” Garcia said. “It is not as sophisticated as that; that’s the ideal situation.”

   This operator work, according to Garcia, should be much cheaper labor than hiring a full-time human DJ and thus ultimately save radio stations millions of dollars. “If you have a staff of five that is paid $100,000 a year each, that’s half-a-million dollars,” he said. “The entire (AI) program is $200, a one-time fee. You never have to pay an annual fee. It never has to go to the bathroom. It never goes on an egomaniac spree. It is always there.” A part-time laborer could be hired as Denise’s human assistant, Garcia reckons, for about $10 an hour.

   The program, Garcia notes, sounds “a tad robotic” and is far from possessing the quick-wit and ability to drone on unscripted for hours that allows some human DJs to command high salaries in today’s market. Nevertheless, for an off-the-shelf piece of software not even designed to be a DJ, the technology could be disruptive to the industry already facing threats from companies such as Pandora, the Internet radio station that hit 100 million users this July.  This is something that can be done today if stations decide to run with it,” Garcia said.

   Thanks to the development of technology, humans are slowly being replaced by robots in certain cases, but what if a human is replaced by artificial intelligence? If you’re considered whether artificial intelligence can do the job as well as human, well, Denise is here to prove that.