synthetic voice with a virtual avatar, which is a work in progress. it's pretty amazing what technology can do these days. so, where does the ai start, and peter stop? lumbar phobia there is a path of least resistance. if the ai says stuff in a certain way it is easy to say let's just do that, then, but then how do you get the balance right? the real key is for the al to be personalised to peter, rather thanjust being a default system. you are watching click at hay festival. that was nick, so what can peter 2.0 do? that is what stephen fry asked at this year's hay festival, and this was the answer. speaks french. translation: and if one day i start sounding like a classicl american newscaster it is because i can, and it seemed like an interesting idea to try.