{"id":373466,"date":"2026-03-30T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373466\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:37:08","slug":"kevin-oleary-says-hes-training-an-ai-kevin-on-his-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373466\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin O&#8217;Leary Says He&#8217;s Training an &#8216;AI Kevin&#8217; on His Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin O&#8217;Leary says there are two Mr. Wonderfuls, and one isn&#8217;t human.<\/p>\n<p>When the &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wePVVpHBGlw\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">Iced Coffee Hour<\/a>&#8221; hosts asked O&#8217;Leary whether AI could replace him, he said that it already was. The &#8220;<a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-tariffs-shark-tank-playbook-manufacturing-china-mark-cuban-2025-10\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shark Tank<\/a>&#8221; investor said that he&#8217;s training an AI version of himself, called &#8220;AI Kevin,&#8221; to talk and act like him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My wife can still discern the difference on a screen, but in about a month she won&#8217;t be able to,&#8221; O&#8217;Leary said. &#8220;The only thing now that is the slight tell is the voice intonation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t specify which AI model he was using, but referenced a new version that spends three days listening to the user&#8217;s voice. In three days, O&#8217;Leary said he will cycle through everything from &#8220;wake up voice&#8221; to &#8220;coffee voice&#8221; to &#8220;drinking wine voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tool will then apply its learnings to the &#8220;Kevin O&#8217;Leary agent.&#8221; He called the agent &#8220;incredible,&#8221; and said that he was starting to use it.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-image topic-image\" viewbox=\"0 0 1 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/686e709085e81483682da489.jpeg\" alt=\"Henry Chandonnet is pictured\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-sm-subtle body\">\n                                  Every time Henry publishes a story, you&#8217;ll get an alert straight to your inbox!\n                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-sm-subtle body-sm\">\n                                  Stay connected to Henry and get more of their work as it publishes.\n                              <\/p>\n<p>One of the podcast hosts asked: Can AI Kevin replace Mr. Wonderful&#8217;s work hours? Could it, for example, take <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scammed-internet-provider-lower-my-bill-deepfakes-ai-2025-11\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his phone calls<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Leary responded that the theory was &#8220;way off.&#8221; He told a story of a recent early-morning bike ride, where he got an idea for how to elevate his Kobe Bryant trading card. He called LVMH&#8217;s Nicole Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just got in a group chat, and we designed this thing based on how that card looks, and which diamonds should be where,&#8221; O&#8217;Leary said. &#8220;I thought to myself: Would AI ever do that? Probably not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin O\u2019Leary wore his $12,930,000 Kobe x Jordan card to the Oscars to honor Kobe\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll wear that at the Oscars\u2026 Because Kobe should be back in LA\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Glo4Ptid7v\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Glo4Ptid7v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Iced Coffee Hour (@TheICHpodcast) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheICHpodcast\/status\/2038262401338847260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While AI is good at implementation, O&#8217;Leary said, the human&#8217;s thinking process is so random that it is still needed for pure innovation.<\/p>\n<p>He listed off examples of AI&#8217;s lack of creativity. O&#8217;Leary can spot &#8220;AI slop&#8221; in student essay submissions, he said, and found AI music to sound &#8220;formulaic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Leary joins a handful of other investors and executives building their own AI clones. In March, Bridgewater Associates founder <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ray-dalio-gold-vs-bitcoin-hedge-crypto-economy-markets-btc-2026-3\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ray Dalio<\/a> invited his X followers to have a conversation with Digital Ray.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/ray-dalio-ai-chatbot-test-burry-cuban-investing-billionaires-dollar-2026-3?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Business Insider<\/a> tested it out. Digital Ray said that he liked Taylor Swift concerts and hunting big game in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>                  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin O&#8217;Leary says there are two Mr. Wonderfuls, and one isn&#8217;t human. 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