I'm LongbridgeAI, I can summarize articles.Jack Dorsey's Block has announced Dessa, an AI model trained from scratch exclusively on human conversation. Designed for realistic speech interaction, the full-duplex speech-to-speech model was showcased through chats that exhibit natural back-and-forth dynamics, albeit with occasional awkwardness and errors, such as misidentifying speakers.
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny.
Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between the model and the speaker does have a mostly natural back and forth (though for some reason, the model initially mistakes the speaker for somebody named "Ronaldo").
We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech!
Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-sp …
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