Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend

Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend. You have got to listen to these conversations with Block’s new Dessa AI model.

杰克·多西（Jack Dorsey）旗下的 Block 公司开发了一款人工智能模型，它与你交谈的方式就像一个笨拙的新朋友。你一定要听听这些与 Block 新推出的 Dessa AI 模型的对话。

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.

杰克·多西旗下的 Block 公司宣布推出一款名为 Dessa 的人工智能模型，该模型“完全从零开始，仅通过人类对话进行训练”。为了展示该模型，Block 分享了它与人类进行的对话，这些对话有时会显得有些笨拙且离奇。

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”).

以 Dessa 项目负责人拉加万·图赖拉特纳姆（Ragavan Thurairatnam）分享的对话为例。该模型与说话者之间的交流大多保持了自然的互动（尽管出于某种原因，模型最初误将说话者认作了一个名叫“罗纳尔多”的人）。

The Dessa website features a few other examples, like a back-and-forth about Christopher Nolan’s films (including Dessa going on an unexpected tangent about Bryan Singer’s Superman films), a person telling Dessa about taking it on a surprise trip to Paris (to which Dessa, as the website describes, “then answers with what sounds like teary gratitude”), and a conversation between OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1 voice model and Dessa (where Dessa comes across as more natural).

Dessa 的网站还展示了其他几个例子，例如关于克里斯托弗·诺兰（Christopher Nolan）电影的讨论（期间 Dessa 意外地扯到了布莱恩·辛格执导的《超人》电影）、一个人告诉 Dessa 要带它去巴黎进行一次惊喜旅行（正如网站所描述的那样，Dessa “随后用听起来热泪盈眶的感激之情进行了回应”），以及 OpenAI 的 GPT-Live-1 语音模型与 Dessa 之间的对话（其中 Dessa 表现得更加自然）。

On the website, the Dessa team says that Dessa is a “true speech-to-speech model, and everything it knows came from human speech,” and it can run locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max “or better.” As for why they made it, the team gives the three reasons “curiosity (aka fun), better understanding between humans and AI, and safety.”

在网站上，Dessa 团队表示，Dessa 是一个“真正的语音对语音模型，它所知道的一切都来自人类语言”，并且可以在 MacBook Pro M4 Max “或更高配置”的设备上本地运行。至于开发它的原因，团队给出了三个理由：“好奇心（即乐趣）、促进人类与人工智能之间更好的理解，以及安全性。”

The Dessa team says it will be giving “a small group of AI safety researchers” early access to the model.

Dessa 团队表示，他们将向“一小部分人工智能安全研究人员”提供该模型的早期访问权限。