It obv does have an extremely natural humane sound to it, but I feel like if you pay attention to what it actually says there is a noticeable lack of intelligence behind it.
It honestly sounds a bit like a teenager's stream of consciousness to me, that's how they sound to me anyways.
I gave the two voices; my wife, who is non-technical, was able to correctly identify which one was AI and which one wasn't. I guess it has not crossed the threshold where it is purely human-sounding.
It could be grammar, choice of words, etc.
Yes, it's mostly speaking/reacting for speaking sake. A cynic might say that it's ready for deployment among the masses.
It was trained on one NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This is a tech demo!
15-20 sec into any of the demo recordings and I get the sense of 'noone is really there' from the AI responses. I guess it's to be expected from a v1 where the scope is prioritising how the demo conversation flows rather than its actual substance.
To be fair, a significant number of real interactions with humans gives me the exact same no-one-is-there impression.
My second thought was it sounds like the colorless green ideas have slept furiously, so to speak.
My first thought was: omg, they've harvested the souls of a dozen insipid, self-centered genz' and trapped them in a machine, like The Finn living in an Aleph...
Extremely obvious in the conversation between this model and GPT-Live-1.