Jack Dorsey's Block built a voice AI that never learned to read.
@blocks says Dessa was trained from scratch only on recorded human conversation, with no text at all. It listens and talks at the same time and runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max. For now, only a small group of AI safety researchers can try it.
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