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Block announced Dessa, saying it was trained from scratch solely on human conversation and can hold a two-way speech conversation. In a chat Block shared, the exchange was mostly natural, though the model initially mistook the speaker for someone named “Ronaldo.” The excerpt does not establish Block’s claim that it is the first such model.

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Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between the model and the speaker does have a mostly natural back and forth (though for some reason, the model initially mistakes the speaker for somebody named "Ronaldo"). We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech! Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-sp … Read the full story at The Verge.

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