Can AI sound too human? Sesame's Maya is as unsettling as it is amazing – try it for free

Can AI sound too human? Sesame's Maya is as unsettling as it is amazing – try it for free

ZDNET

As a general rule, I’m not a huge fan of talking to AI chatbots. Even though many of them sound pretty human, they’re still “off” enough that I much prefer typing when I want to converse with one.

Sesame changed that.

This AI sounds real

In a blog post yesterday titled “Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Conversational Voice,” the company dropped a demo of its new AI chatbot that lets you talk to either “Maya” or “Miles.” The goal, Sesame says, is to achieve something called “voice…

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