#Dessa

Jack Dorsey and Block, Inc. just took us one step closer to the singularity and it's simultaneously awesome and terrifying.

Dessa, a speech-to-speech model from a small research lab at Block, was trained on human conversation alone and runs on a MacBook Pro. For now, only a small group of AI safety researchers is getting access.

Dessa, unlike conventional voice AI models, can listen and talk at the same time. The model has been trained exclusively on real human conversations.

The model goes by Dessa. Presumably because, once you hear it talk, you'll say "'Dessa' pretty convincing human voice."

Jack Dorsey’s Block announced an AI model, Dessa, that’s trained entirely on human conversations.