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We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
—David Clark, 1992
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
—David Clark, 1992
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jack retweeted
the real uncanny valley isn't clankers sounding like people.
it's that we've forgotten what a mid-IQ, average-articulation conversation even feels like
every bot we talk to is a 140 IQ language model with perfect grammar and no "uhms." when was the last time you actually spoke to something that sounded like a normal person? congrats @RagavanThurair!
it's that we've forgotten what a mid-IQ, average-articulation conversation even feels like
every bot we talk to is a 140 IQ language model with perfect grammar and no "uhms." when was the last time you actually spoke to something that sounded like a normal person? congrats @RagavanThurair!
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-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs.
This is a GPT3 moment for speech.
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jack retweeted
world models truly have arrived, in a rather extravagant emotional fashion really.
Meet Dessa, our AI model trained from scratch on nothing but speech.
We believe speech is the natural interface for technology. So we built Dessa.
And we’re inviting AI safety researchers to explore Dessa.
Learn more: block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
Love that y’all are tackling nuance and cadence. Voice is character. Looking forward to hearing more.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
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jack retweeted
the s2s model is insane but the real flex is running this locally on your Mac!
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
What the fuuuck! Trained on a single NVL72!!!
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
speech is the future and we’re only getting started
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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turn-taking feels better than GPT-live, and the tone feels more natural than ElevenLabs ' TTS. and they are in Toronto? HOWWWW???
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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You have got to listen to these conversations with Block’s new Dessa AI model. theverge.com/ai-artificial-…
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This is insane! The running locally is crazy
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
Wow - listen to the model. Some form of Turing test surpassed
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
ngl this is the best demos I've ever seen
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
please listen to dessa.
i have never heard anything artificial that sounded so… human.
if you ever doubted that human-ai-relationships were going to be a thing. well. this snippet will convince you otherwise.
i have never heard anything artificial that sounded so… human.
if you ever doubted that human-ai-relationships were going to be a thing. well. this snippet will convince you otherwise.
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
this is absolutely insane...easily the best speech model I've heard
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.
block.xyz/dessa
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Calling all AI safety researchers.
We’re inviting a small group to explore Dessa, our model trained on speech alone, and help us understand what it can and can’t do.
We’d love to hear from you: block.xyz/dessa
We’re inviting a small group to explore Dessa, our model trained on speech alone, and help us understand what it can and can’t do.
We’d love to hear from you: block.xyz/dessa
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jack retweeted
Dessa developed world knowledge and learned to reason purely from audio
Here's our intern @carajzp playing a game with it
Here's our intern @carajzp playing a game with it
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