This AI Is Already Fooling People on Video Calls Into Thinking Its Human, Company Says

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The company unveiled it on October 1 and calls it the first Human Interaction Model, an AI built to understand and generate face-to-face conversation, paying attention to expressions and pauses as well as words. Tavus says 26 of 54 people on a one-minute video call thought its new Griffin model was human.

The results are the company's own, and the model isn't going to retail customers yet. Decrypt News Artificial Intelligence This AI Is Already Fooling People on Video Calls Into Thinking Its Human, Company Says Tavus says 26 of 54 people on a one-minute video call thought its new Griffin model was human.

In brief Tavus says 26 of 54 participants (48%) believed Griffin-Lite was a real person after a one-minute video call, versus 1 of 41 for its previous system. The results come from Tavus' own research page, participants were told they would meet another person, and Griffin-Lite is limited to select trusted testers while Tavus works on safety measures. AI startup Tavus says its new model, Griffin, convinced 48% of the people who talked to it on a live video call that they were speaking with a real human.