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Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by heyitsguay »

joshdavham wrote: post #18
heyitsguay wrote: post #13

This is really cool in terms of the tech, but what is this useful for as a consumer? I mean it's basically just a chatbot right? And nobody likes interacting with those. Forcing a conversational interaction seems like a step down in UX.

That's actually a good question. For example, the technology is still currently at a level where the user can still cleary tell that it's a chatbot, but now with a face. Does this make their experience better? Or does it add a weird level of uncaninness to the experience?

I don't think the level of fidelity actually matters as much as authority or ability. What can the agent do that isn't accomplished by, for example, a landing page or an FAQ page? I've never encountered a (text) chatbot that did anything useful for me as a consumer, whether for sales or support.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by karolist »

Felt like talking to a person, I couldn't bring myself to treat it like a piece of code, that's how real it felt. I wanted to be polite and diplomatic, caught myself thinking about "how I look to this person". This brought me thinking of the conscious effort we put in when we talk with people and how sloppy and relaxed we can be when interacting with algorithms.

For a little example, when searching Google I default to a minimal set of keywords required to get the result, instead of typing full sentences. I'm sort of afraid this technology will train people to behave like that when video chatting with virtual assistants and that attitude will bleed in real life interactions in societies.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by gamerDude »

Definitely responds quickly. But could not carry on a conversation and kept trying to almost divert the conversation into less interesting topics. Weirdly kept complimenting me or taking one word and saying, oh you feel ____. Which is not what I said or feel.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by rpazpri1 »

heyitsguay wrote: post #21
joshdavham wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's actually a good question. For example, the technology is still currently at a level where the user can still cleary tell that it's a chatbot, but now with a face. Does this make their experience better? Or does it add a weird level of uncaninness to the experience?

I don't think the level of fidelity actually matters as much as authority or ability. What can the agent do that isn't accomplished by, for example, a landing page or an FAQ page? I've never encountered a (text) chatbot that did anything useful for me as a consumer, whether for sales or support.

totally agree! agentic capabilities are really important and can significantly elevate the experience. using LLM tools is a great way to get at least part of the way there. feel free to check out our docs for "bring your own LLM" here https://docs.tavus.io/sections/conversational-video-interfac...

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by pantulis »

iamleppert wrote: post #24

I would pay cold hard cash if I could easily create an AI avatar of myself that could attend teams meetings and do basic interaction, like give a status update when called on.

Last time I checked it was not possible through Teams API call for video conferences, although it is pretty easy to set up a chat bot in Teams with a custom Copilot. I'd say that it looked more feasible through a plugin for Google Meet but there are too many hoops. I'd expect that to be reserved either for the host platforms or for selected partners.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by Philpax »

pantulis wrote: post #26
iamleppert wrote: post #24

I would pay cold hard cash if I could easily create an AI avatar of myself that could attend teams meetings and do basic interaction, like give a status update when called on.

Last time I checked it was not possible through Teams API call for video conferences, although it is pretty easy to set up a chat bot in Teams with a custom Copilot. I'd say that it looked more feasible through a plugin for Google Meet but there are too many hoops. I'd expect that to be reserved either for the host platforms or for selected partners.

I can't imagine someone doing this would be doing it through an official integration; it's much more likely to be a virtual webcam, which is compatible with anything.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by hassaanr »

heyitsguay wrote: post #13

This is really cool in terms of the tech, but what is this useful for as a consumer? I mean it's basically just a chatbot right? And nobody likes interacting with those. Forcing a conversational interaction seems like a step down in UX.

The way we see it is that this brings us closer to communicating with computers the way we communicate with each other. It has vision and can (not perfectly) take into account your expressions, your surroundings, and can respond accordingly.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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Post by zoeysmithe »

iamleppert wrote: post #24

I would pay cold hard cash if I could easily create an AI avatar of myself that could attend teams meetings and do basic interaction, like give a status update when called on.

Okay so this is impossible because you'll get caught because tech will never fool everyone like this all the time.

But lets talk about the sentiment behind here. Am I the only one seeing some terrible things being done with AI in terms of time management, meetings, and written materials? Asking AI to "turn this nice concise 3 paragraphs into a 6 page report" is a huge problem. Everyone thinks they're an amazing technical writer now, but most good writing is concise and short and these AI monstrosities are just a waste of everyone's time.

Reform work culture instead! Why do we have cameras on our faces? Why are we making these reports? Why so many meetings? "Meeting culture" is the problem and it needs to go, but it upholds middle-management jobs and structures, so here we are asking for robots of us to sit in meetings with management to get just the 8 bullet points we need from that 1 hour meeting.

We've entered a new level of kafkaesque capitalism where a manager puts 8 bullets points into an AI, gets a professional 4 page report, then turns that into a meeting for staff to take that report and meeting transcript to...you guessed it, turn it back into those 8 bullet points.

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