These bidi/duplex demos always come off as overly artificial to me. It's cool that the model can speak at the same time as you instead of taking turns, but training it to interrupt as much as possible isn't the way to do it. In the very first example, did anyone here find the laugh after the "winter" answer to be convincing? What was the need for it? Why did the human speaker not get to finish a single sentence or finish a thought before the model took over with a monologue?
I'm absolutely going to hate talking to these things as customer service agents, with fake vocal fry and odd amounts of intonation and emotion peppered in.
For sure there's gonna be people falling in love with them though! I find all the anthropomorphization creepy though.
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I get irrationally angry when actual people interrupt me while I'm talking, I'll start throwing chairs when AI tech support agents start doing it.
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I listened after reading your comment, and in the first half of the example, Dessa sounds drunk to me, or at least tipsy. So weirdly, the laugh made sense to me.
Maybe it's better with lower latency, but I get really annoyed by this with ChatGPT Voice. I almost always start my chat with "I'm gonna ramble, I'll tell you when it's your turn".
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OpenAI ruined advanced voice mode for me with that. I’m in the middle of a sentence and it goes “uh huh” and it kills my whole train of thought. It does not make me feel like I’m talking to a real person, it makes me feel like I’m talking to a stupid stupid AI that I hate.