After a one-minute video call, nearly half of people thought this AI was a real person
Tavus says its new Griffin model is the first to pass a video version of the Turing test. It is not open to customers yet.
Tavus is a company that makes AI faces you can talk to on a video call. On Thursday, it showed a new model called Griffin. Tavus says it is the first AI to pass a video version of the Turing test. That old test asks one question: can a machine make you think it is a person?
Here is how Tavus ran it. People signed up through an outside research site. They were told they would have a one-minute video call with another person. But the partner was an AI. A first version of Griffin made her face, voice and answers live, as the call went on.
After the call, each person was asked if the partner had been a real person. Then everyone was told the truth.
With Griffin, 26 of 54 people said yes. That is 48%. With the company's older system, only 1 of 41 people said yes.
Tavus says Griffin listens while you talk. It also watches your face and your pauses, not just your words. That helps it react in the moment.
The company also names the risk. It says the same skills can be used to "deceive a human into believing it is not AI." So Griffin is not open to customers yet. Only a small group of trusted testers can use it. Tavus says it is working on ways to tell people they are talking to an AI.
Why does it matter? A face on a video call may no longer be enough to know you are talking to a person.
Open it and check the claim yourself. That is the point.