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This looks very cool. An AI that can listen and speak and handle tasks without breaking the flow of conversation would solve some big annoyances with current tools.

The concern is though as these get better will people struggle to distinguish these with real human connections?

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people have been mistaking AI conversations with reality since the very first text-based models came into the public view with ChatGPT. i'm sure with each incremental improvement to outputs like this, though, more people will get convinced of its "humanity"

(see https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/)

Every time things like this come up, I can't help but think of the ending of Inception.

It's less that you're convinced it's real and more that you no longer care if it is. "Feels real enough" is good enough.

I'm a technical user first, so I'm not sure if models have improved for RP the way they improved for applied STEM tasks and technical brainstorming. But if there is an improvement curve there, I wouldn't be surprised if this only grows in popularity.

You know, when I wrote that comment I was actually thinking of the ending of Inception. Still makes me very uncomfortable though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

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