The voice is really good, especially small details like sharp air intake before a response to indicate tone. I guess the conversation topics weren't amazing but that's not really the point. The problem I have is that if you want to engage with something like this, you need to pretend it's a human. As they say, the uncanny valley was pretty much successfully crossed. And to be honest, I don't want to pretend I'm talki…
I imagine an agent with this kind of conversational capability but better. And then I imagine that coupled with a video model that presents a proper talking head that is pretty much indistinguishable from a real one
Then what if these personalities were highly configurable to your tastes, had a very long memory and were so cheap and available you could build an entire customised social circle from them.
This is a bizarre nightmare for us but will become the norm for future generations. As rigid and inflexible as it is, my kids even had a hard time understanding Alexa is not real at first, and they have come accustomed to this style of conversational interface from a young age, I think about that but in 30 years for their kids.