Cool Innovation #0029. It is your mother calling? Or it is a robotcall? Take a guess.

Prepare for Robocall Hell, Where Scam Bots Pretend to Be Your Mom. Robocalls are on the rise, with nearly a third of all phone calls now made by automated dialing machines programmed to play a prerecorded message if someone answers.

Now, experts are predicting that the annoying calls are destined for a high-tech — and highly disturbing — next level of evolution: scammers using voice-mimicking AIs to make their pre-recorded messages sound like your friends and family.

We thankfully don’t have to worry about robocallers pretending to be our grandmothers just yet.

“Building a fake computer voice right now is a decent amount of work,” he told CNN. “If I wanted to build one that sounded like you, for example, I’d need to get a ton of samples of you saying specific phonemes, and train a computer model on that.”

Hold on, they´re coming.

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