Jack Dorsey's Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
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TL;DR
- Block announced Dessa, an AI model trained solely on human conversation.
- Dessa demonstrates speech-to-speech interaction capabilities.
- Examples show conversations that are sometimes awkward and uncanny.
- The model can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or better.
- Reasons for development include curiosity, better human-AI understanding, and safety.
- The developers aim to see if an AI can learn to talk like a baby, without seeing written words.