I asked Claude to build an office for the @tavus PALs... I was not expecting it to build THAT kind of office

I’ve been experimenting with new hardware form factors for my assistant, Dom. My favorite so far: the deskPAL! Dom now lives on my desk, can speak up to get my attention, and is connected to my calendar, email etc. I find myself using him consistently throughout the day for brainstorming and making sure I don't miss anything.

Griffin, first ever at passing video turing test I took the early preview for a spin, I'm super impressed. Natural flow, very promising technological advancements from prev gen. 48% of folks who tried it thought they talked to a real human. Full duplex-video is here.

This is the best human-interaction model I've ever seen in action. I got early access to Tavus. I tested it. Judge for yourself.

We blew past the Turing test for voice agents about a year ago. I don't think we talk about this enough. We have lots of data from real-world voice agent deployments. In contexts like customer support, people often forget they are talking to a voice agent. This is true even when the system tells people they are talking to an AI agent at the beginning of the session. (Which I think is a best practice that almost all AI agents should adhere to.) So ... when will this happen for realtime, conversational AI video? Well, we're getting very close. @tavus just released a new realtime video model that, at its best, passes the Turing test for conversational video. It's pretty amazing. The model is full-duplex (it can talk and listen at the same time), and does vision and audio input and audio+video output in realtime. Both on the nascent conversational video benchmarks, and in my testing, it's a pretty big step forward. Here's an unedited video of one of my conversations with the new model. I think you can see a few interesting things here. When the model responds as quickly as you expect a human to respond, the experience is magical. The responses are conversational and natural; there's no leaning on stock filler phrases to hit the response time goals. The integration between the video and audio feels natural, which has historically been an uncanny valley thing that most video avatar experiences didn't quite get past. The model can do hand gestures! If you're deep into this stuff, you'll find that a little bit mind-blowing. And, in keeping with all the stuff that Tavus has released, the fact that the model can "see" as well as hear and talk is integral to the experience and a big part of what makes the conversation feel useful and interesting. At the very beginning of the conversation, you can see that the model and I talk over each other. Which is something that happens a lot in human-to-human video call conversations. We both recover from this gracefully, which, again, has been something that rarely worked quite perfectly in previous generations of realtime video systems. Even more than the "when it works perfectly" capabilities, it's probably these recovery and robustness moments that get us all the way to experiences that feel completely natural.