Griffin: Human Interaction Model
tavus.io
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Why would this be good for anything but scams and disorder? What is the actually prosocial use case?
Systems a little bit like this used are sometimes used in medical school as a form of simulated patient for students to practice communication skills with. Niche, but plausibly positive.
Fighting "the loneliness epidemic", of course!
I'd rather have the machine feel like a machine when I'm interacting with it. I actually prefer that. This seems like it's adding negative value.
> 48% Of people believed Griffin was a real person after a one- minute video call.
...I don't think this will have a positive impact on the world
Nothing good can come of "hacking" our natural inclination to trust other human faces this way.