๐ค AI startup Tavus has unveiled Griffin, which it calls the first "Human Interaction Model," able to watch, listen and respond to a person at the same time over live video. In a test run by Tavus, it said 48% of 54 participants believed they were talking to a real person after a one-minute call.
The demo has drawn millions of views and widespread alarm over potential job losses and scams. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said the company is "launching us unprotected and unprepared into a dystopian world in which machines perfectly mimic humans." Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) wrote: "Gross. Nobody wants this."
Tavus pitches Griffin as "a tutor who notices when a student is struggling," a partner for rehearsing difficult conversations, or a support agent that can help a customer fix a broken part held up to the camera. Potential use cases could extend to serving as personal doctors, therapists, teachers, interview coaches, fitness instructors and cooking assistants: effectively an on-demand expert for any task where seeing what a user is doing lets it guide the user in real-time.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who turned 85 in September, called it "INSANE" and typed: "PAUSE AI NOW."