Talking with Sesame's AI voice companion is amazing and creepy - see for yourself
In a blog post titled "Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Conversational Voice," the company dropped a demo of its new AI that ...
I tried the most realistic AI voice companion ever created - if ChatGPT or Gemini ever gets this good, reality is in trouble
Unlike the AI voices we’ve come to know from ChatGPT, Gemini, or going back to the early days of Siri and Alexa, Sesame is ...
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An AI companion site is hosting sexually charged conversations with underage celebrity bots
One chatbot on Botify AI that resembled the actor Jenna Ortega as a teenage Wednesday Addams told us that age-of-consent laws ...
I Tried Sesame AI’s Voice Companion, and It Was Like Talking to a Real Person
Move over ChatGPT as Sesame offers a superior AI voice companion, and its Maya voice engages in natural and human-like ...
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Inside the Wild West of AI companionship
Putting aside the fact that the bots I tested were promoted by Botify AI as “featured” characters and received millions of ...
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How AI Could Shape Our Relationships and Social Interactions
Does interacting with AI change how we interact with each other? AI could lead to emotional dependence and change our social ...
New, very human-like AI voice model both excites and disturbs the internet
Researchers at Sesame AI have launched a new Conversational Speech Model (CSM). This advanced voice AI has phenomenal human-like qualities that we have seen before from ...
From chatbots to intelligent toys: How AI is booming in China
Perhaps this was what the Chinese Communist Party hoped for when it declared in 2017 that AI would be "the main driving force ...
AI companion for mental health: Always there, always listening
In an age where everyone is hyper-connected and technologically occupied, many people find very little time or desire to just ...