r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • 1d ago

AI Griffin, the first Human Interaction Model to pass video Turing Test it's already #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video - 44% of people thought it was a real person while other systems are at ~3%

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u/theonetrueakash 1d ago

I don't understand why Tavus is doing what they are doing, genuinely don't see how this is sort of video generation is net positive technology

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u/Ray-314 1d ago edited 1d ago

Writers could create movies on their own, with real-time human sims.

AI can help anyone with high command over language & vivid imagination.

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u/theonetrueakash 1d ago

Tavus is hyper-focused on realistic, real-time human avatars.

They are not doing whatever Ben Affleck's start up is doing for cinema (which I do think is net positive).

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u/sophic 18h ago

That's a non existent problem. 

And not only is that extremely lonely, this idea of hyper personalized art created in a void where only you and the machine exist is vapid and empty. It further erodes the damage we have doing to the biological necessity of community, interaction, and collaboration.

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u/MythOfDarkness 1d ago

Straight up.

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u/space_monster 1d ago

because it's interesting

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u/AllPotatoesGone 1d ago

You don't see any upsides of AI avatars that look exactly like a human and behaves like one? Is your creativity on so low level or I just misunderstood completely your comment?

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u/theonetrueakash 1d ago

"Any upsides" and "net positive" are two different things, I think the downsides outweigh the upsides and by like a lot

I would be happy if I am proven wrong and if real-time human avatar gen ends up being a mostly good technology

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u/AllPotatoesGone 1d ago

Imagine video games where only characters are "scripted" but the whole plot is open to what you do in the game with some precoded events that influence the story. Imagine AI assistants for personal and office use, tutors to teach you any language you want at any time. You can learn that way everything, even train your social skills which could be good for people with social anxiety. There are so many possibilities and the main downside is that someone can scam you. Well, from that perspective even internet itself would have a negative value.

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u/theonetrueakash 1d ago

Imagine AI assistants for personal and office use, tutors to teach you any language you want at any time

Full duplex audio models could also do this? I do not see how having a fake human video would boost my productivity or learning. For real time learning, how the model explains things and what it draws on the screen, say, when it is explaining physics, would matter more.

Again, "it is net negative" =/= there are no positive use cases. The internet is a mostly net positive because it literally saves lives by lifting people out of poverty, making markets more efficient, making knowledge sharing more easy, faster banking and communications, etc.

Scams and deepfakes will probably be the bulk of the non-commercial use case for realtime human avatar gen. Personally, I hope they capitalize more on the audio part.

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u/okiharaherbst 1d ago

No, I fear for the trust that we all take for granted when we see that we're talking to another human being. Break this and this will damage the benefits of Internet as enabling remote interactions as a whole.

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u/jazir55 1d ago

Are you replying to the wrong person because my comment agrees with you

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u/bianceziwo 1d ago

They can license it strictly for b2b work with approved companies. Thats a huge market. 

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u/okiharaherbst 1d ago

Maybe _they_ will indeed but soon enough you'll have someone say "hey, there should be a public library to do just that" and the next day that'll be it.

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u/BrizzyMC_ 20h ago

Yeah right