Computer voice text to speech has been with us for quite sometime now, but chances are pretty good that computer generated voice will soon be able to match the sound and quality of humans. It all sounds great until you think about how it could be used. Being able to replicate and imitate any voice, anyone calling you over the phone could be pretending to be someone you know; your spouse, your children, your banker and so on.

Currently artificial intelligence / pattern recognition software is becoming capable of telling the difference between a pear and an apple. Imagine the year when the consciousness module is plugged in and turned on (2030~2040?). Lets hope we’ve first enabled the ethical subroutines.  Do you believe AI consciousness is even possible?