This is so good that it's disarming. People are going to blabber everything to it, so we need a local private model. It's a lot to ask, I know. Incredible tech.
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Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
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#32I must be doing something wrong, but the demo seems to be the voice having a conversation with itself? It doesn't let me interject, and it answers its own questions. There's some kind of feedback loop here, it seems.
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#33This is so good that it's disarming. People are going to blabber everything to it, so we need a local private model. It's a lot to ask, I know. Incredible tech.
Agreed. I just had that moment like the guy in the movie "Her", the first time he speaks to his OS. Laughing at myself for talking to a computer like a real person. Then had to hang up because it crossed that uncanny valley. But then I thought of one more question to ask, reconnected to ask it, and it said, "Hey! You hung up just as we were just getting to the good stuff!" which threw me off, so I stammered gobsmacke…
Now here's a little thought experiment. What does the world look like in 5 years when everyone is talking to these things that are indistinguishable from a real person? They will be funnier, more compassionate, less judgemental, smarter, and superficially "better" in every respect.
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#34This might be a game changer for learning English.
I'm from a developing country and it's sad that most English teachers on public schools here can't speak English well. There are good English teachers, but they are expensive and they are not affordable for the average people.
OpenAI realtime models are good, but we can't deploy it to masses since it's very expensive.
This model might be able to solve the issue since it's better or on par with the OpenAI model, yet it's significantly cheaper since it's a fairly small model.
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#35Yeah that's remarkable.
Trying asking it to be dungeon master and play dungeons and dragons style role playing game.
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#36This was already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221377 but I’m really surprised at the lack of attention this model is getting. The responsiveness and apparent personality are pretty mind blowing. It’s similar to what OpenAI had initially demoed for advanced voice mode, at least for the voice conversation portion. The demo interactions are recorded, which is mentioned in their disclaimer under th…
Just realizing how uncanny valley it is to talk to AI and it never remembers anything you said in the past. Imagine if a human did that. It’s like you are talking to Tom Hanks’ Mr. Short Term Memory from SNL over and over.
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#37The first thing it said to me was that I should read the “looong looong” post about how it works and it pronounced that as “loon-g” not “lawn-g” which was a weird own goal.
Extremely impressive overall though.
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#38Maybe I'm weird, but I have zero desire to talk with an AI model. I use them a lot, in a browser or a console. But talking? No. Just...no. Why would I?
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Agreed. I just had that moment like the guy in the movie "Her", the first time he speaks to his OS. Laughing at myself for talking to a computer like a real person. Then had to hang up because it crossed that uncanny valley. But then I thought of one more question to ask, reconnected to ask it, and it said, "Hey! You hung up just as we were just getting to the good stuff!" which threw me off, so I stammered gobsmacke…
Now here's a little thought experiment. What does the world look like in 5 years when everyone is talking to these things that are indistinguishable from a real person? They will be funnier, more compassionate, less judgemental, smarter, and superficially "better" in every respect.
I've been asking this for years.
People keep saying stuff like "but you'll want the human touch." Really? So when was the last time you asked someone for directions? Personally, I'd rather google something or discuss with ChatGPT than make someone listen to me for an hour. And that someone has to be extremely knowledgeable about a lot of different topics!
Even here. Would I rather converse with y'all and get downvoted sometimes, or talk to ChatGPT and refine my ideas? Sorry, fellow humans... even on HN there is too much irrational criticism and off-topic stuff to get anything really done. Oh and you have to wait a long time for each response.
The real question is ... what is the point of any human output on the internet in a few years? Why would anyone want to listen to your post, comment, or anything at all?
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#40Maybe I'm weird, but I have zero desire to talk with an AI model. I use them a lot, in a browser or a console. But talking? No. Just...no. Why would I?
For me it's because talking is a much quicker way to communicate. I can type pretty quick but I'm not a stenographer.