Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Right now, every AI model you've ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a respo
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Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interrupt you.
Right now, every AI model youβve ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a response at the same time, so itβs more like a phone call than a text chain.
The technical term for this is βfull duplex,β and the company claims its model, TML-Interaction-Small, responds in 0.40 seconds, which is roughly the speed of natural human conversation and significantly faster than comparable models from OpenAI and Google.
Still, this is a research preview, not a product. The company isnβt releasing it to the public yet. A βlimited research previewβ is coming in the next few months, it says, with a wider release set for later this year.
So what to make of it? Weβre not sure. The benchmarks are impressive and the underlying idea β that interactivity should be native to a model, not bolted on β is definitely interesting. Whether the real-world experience lives up to the technical claims is something we wonβt know until people can actually use it.
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