Tavus's AI Avatar Fooled 48% of People on a Live Video Call
Fifty-four people sat down for a one-minute video call with a stranger. Twenty-six of them walked away convinced they had just talked to a real person. They hadn't. The stranger was software. That is the headline number from Tavus, a San Francisco AI startup, which announced its new "Human Interaction Model" Griffin on October 1 and says it just passed a real-time, video version of the Turing test. The New York Post picked it up this week, and the claim is now bouncing around tech Twitter: 48% fooled, up from 2.4% for Tavus's own previous stack. One founder of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, summed up the reaction in two words: "remote work is cooked." It is a hell of a number. It is also, on inspection, a number doing a great deal of marketing work — and the part of the story nobody is writing is what happens when this technology meets the people already faking their way through job interviews for a living. Photo: Alan Turing at Princeton in 1936. His...