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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 hassaanr »

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?

It'll depend on the use case- but with customers that are using it today we're seeing higher engagement and satisfaction rates. It's a different interface to communicate that is more natural to humans (our bullish opinion).

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

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Post by hassaanr »

alexawarrior4 wrote: post #27

Hassaan isn't working but Carter works great. I even asked it to converse in Espanol, which it does (with a horrible accent) but fluently. Great work on the future of LLM interaction.

Unfortunately, it looks like HN has given my little blog the hug of death. Should be back up soon

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

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Post by hassaanr »

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.

Give us a few weeks and this will be possible!

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

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Post by btbuildem »

airstrike wrote: post #6

This is awesome! I particularly like the example from https://www.tavus.io/product/video-generation It's got a "80s/90s sci-fi" vibe to it that I just find awesomely nostalgic (I might be thinking about the cafe scene in Back to the Future 2?). It's obviously only going to improve from here. I almost like this video more than I like the "Talk to Carter" CTA on your homepage, even though that's also obviously valuable…

Interesting -- compare the training video to the render! I think if you know the person, it would still be very hard to pass the digital twin as the real thing. But if you mean to face strangers, this could very well work already. There are small glitches but that's easy to blame on a video codes / network issues.

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

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Post by btbuildem »

caseyy wrote: post #17

Amazing work technically, less than 1 second is very impressive. It quite scary though that I might FaceTime someone one day soon, and they’d won’t be real. What do you think about the societal implications for this? Today we have a bit of a loneliness crisis due to a lack of human connection.

Another nail in the coffin for WFH, too. "They" will be scared we're not actually working even when on calls.

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

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Post by alexawarrior4 »

hassaanr wrote: post #32
alexawarrior4 wrote: post #27

Hassaan isn't working but Carter works great. I even asked it to converse in Espanol, which it does (with a horrible accent) but fluently. Great work on the future of LLM interaction.

Unfortunately, it looks like HN has given my little blog the hug of death. Should be back up soon

This would be WONDERFUL with a Spanish-native accent as a language tutor, but as you've already got English you should try marketing this to the English-learning world. There is a huge dearth of native English speaker interaction in worldwide language instruction, and it's typically only available to the most privileged of students. Your system could democratize this so anyone with an affordable fee (say $10-20/month, subsidized for the poorest) could practice speaking and have their own personal tutor. The State Department and Defense Language Institute might love this as well as, if trained on languages like Iraqi Arabic and Korean would allow live-exercise training prior to deployment.

It can also function as an instructional tutor in a way that feels natural and interactive, as opposed to the clunkiness of ChatGPT. For instance, I asked it (in Spanish) to guide me through programming a REST API, and what frameworks I would use for that, and it was giving coherent and useful responses. Really the "secret sauce" that OpenAI needs to actually become integrated into everyday life.

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

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Post by andywertner »

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.

This is a really good question. While you're right that a common use case would be chatbots for product support, it isn't the only one. Some examples:

- interactive experiences with historical figures - digital twins for celebrity/influencer fan interactions - "live" and/or personalized advertisements

Some of our users are already building these kinds of applications.

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