AI software mimics boss’s voice, gets executive to wire gobs of money

今天这篇文章选自2019年9月5日出版的《华盛顿邮报》

AI software mimics boss's voice, gets executive to wire gobs of money

wire 在这里很显然是取它的动词意思“给某人电汇”
gob 这个词不常见,常用复数形式,如great gobs of cash大量的现金

Thieves used voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive's speech and dupe his subordinate into sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to a secret account, the company's insurer said, in a remarkable case that some researchers are calling one of the world's first publicly reported artificial-intelligence heists.

voice-mimicking 模仿声音
dupe sb. into doing sth. 欺骗某人做某事
remarkable 同义词 stunning、splendid、gorgeous、extraordinary、spectacular 等
heist(对贵重物或钱财)的盗窃

Now being developed by a wide variety of Silicon Valley titans and AI start-ups, such voice-synthesis software can copy the rhythms and intonations of a person's voice and be used to produce convincing speech.

Silicon Valley titans 硅谷巨头公司
voice-synthesis 声音合成
start-ups 初创公司
rhythms and intonations 节奏和语调

Tech giants such as Google and smaller firms such as the “ultrarealistic voice cloning” start-up Lyrebird have helped refine the resulting fakes and made the tools more widely available free, with unlimited use.

ultrarealistic 超现实

But the synthetic audio and AI-generated videos, known as “deepfakes,” have fueled growing anxieties over how the new technologies can erode public trust, empower criminals and make traditional communication — from business deals and family phone calls to presidential campaigns — that much more vulnerable to computerized manipulation.

deepfakes AI换脸

erode (权威、权利、信心等)逐渐丧失;削弱

"Criminals are going to use whatever tools enable them to achieve their objectives cheapest," said Andrew Grotto, a fellow at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center. "This is a technology that would have sounded exotic in the extreme 10 years ago, now being well within the range of any lay criminal who's got creativity to spare."

exotic 表示“奇异的;异国情调的”
lay 表示“外行的,非专业的”,比如layman

Developers of the technology have pointed to its positive uses, saying it can help humanize auto-mated phone systems and help mute people speak again.

humanize auto-mated phone 使自动电话更人性化

But its unregulated growth has also sparked concern over its potential for fraud, targeted hacks and cybercrime.

targeted hacks定向入侵

AI developers are working to build systems that can detect and combat fake audio, but the voice-mimicking technology is evolving rapidly.

detect →de-, 不,非,使相反。-tect, 覆盖,词源同deck, tile. 即揭开覆盖,查明。

Google, for instance, has invested in research and funded challenges to automatically recognize “spoofed” speech.

spoof 表示“滑稽地模仿;哄骗”

But the company has also developed some of the world's most persuasive voice AI, including with its Duplex service, which can call restaurants to book a table using a lifelike, computer-generated voice.

persuasive 表示“有说服力的;令人信服的”,例如:persuasive arguments 意思是“令人信服的论点”
lifelike 意思是“逼真的;生动的;栩栩如生的”,近义词是 realistic,例如:a lifelike statue / drawing / toy 意思是栩栩如生的雕塑/绘画;逼真的玩具。

"There's a tension in the commercial space between wanting to make the best product and considering the bad applications that product could have,"said Charlotte Stanton, director of the Silicon Valley office of the think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

"Researchers need to be more cautious as they release technology as powerful as voice-synthesis technology because clearly it's at a point where it can be misused."

clearly 为副词修饰整个从句

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