Why is every comment a brief "very impressive, nice job" on a high impact technology followed by a tangential semi-personal rant?
gnabgib 9 hours ago|
Combination of paid to comment and can't help themselves. The algo down-ranks, but it's ugly seeing how sausage is made.
63 13 hours ago||
Both speakers in the examples sound unnatural. The human doesn't know what to talk about and seems to have little confidence. The robot says things that only mostly make sense and draws on, saying ultimately very little. "How's the winter stuff?" e.g. is not a sentence a person would say. I might say "How are you dealing with the snow?" or "Are you looking forward to winter?," but not "How's the winter stuff?" And there's just so many examples like this. Also, I'm not convinced that this "human-like" conversation with filler words and interruptions and pauses is actually what anyone wants, especially in absence of a face to interpret or a real human being to understand behind it. Even if it worked perfectly, it would feel uncanny and artificial because I know the person isn't real.
Mallory_Ringess 13 hours ago|
They sound just as unnatural als the annoying actors in the 'Gilmore Girls' series my daughter keeps on watching and re-watching, i.e. stupid valley girl or whatever it is called witless drivel. In that sense this model is tailor-made to create direct script-to-screen voice-overs for pabulum like that.
moonu 14 hours ago||
Can you instruction-train a duplex model like this? How would that look? I also wonder, if a model trained only on speech can develop world knowledge like this, could you train an image model only on images of text to essentially act as an LLM?
Barbing 5 hours ago||
Third example at 0:02:
>Dessa: Hey, baby.
Block is in the AI girlfriend market? Ew.
sebringj 11 hours ago||
ya if this is real this is magnitudes better than anything else out there, it honestly feels like it can't be real because its too real, i would be 100% fooled and never even question it wasn't a real person, i was more worried because of that, in that no one would be able to tell and you could have very engaging / emotional conversations that chatgpt/grok/claude etc can't even come close to
rmnwski 3 hours ago||
it only works for english now, right? right?
armcat 12 hours ago||
This is so awesome! How does it work with moving away from the mic, is it just random or does the conversational pattern lead it that way?
electriclove 12 hours ago||
The volume on this seemed so low and wouldn't get better even on max on my MacBook Air M5. Hoping it isn't my ears lol
haarts 13 hours ago|
Ok. Sounds cool.
Now what? Open source weights? An API somewhere? Available on Openrouter? Are they just testing?