Creepy human-like AI voice assistant demo both excites and disturbs the internet

In context: Some of the implications of today's AI models are startling enough without adding a hyperrealistic human voice to them. We have seen several impressive examples over the last 10 years, but they seem to fall silent until a new one emerges. Enter Miles and Maya from Sesame AI, a company co-founded by former CEO and co-founder of Oculus, Brendan Iribe. Researchers at Sesame AI have launched a new Conversational Speech Model (CSM). This advanced voice AI has phenomenal human-like qualities that we have seen before from companies like Google (Duplex) and OpenAI (Omni). The demo showcases two AI voices named "Miles" (male) and "Maya" (female), and its realism has captivated some users. However, good luck trying the tech yourself. We tried and could only get to a message saying Sesame is trying to scale to capacity. For now, we'll have to settle for a nice 30-minute demo by the YouTube channel Creator Magic (below). Sesame's technology uses a multimodal approach that processes t ... Read full article.