The first real-time voice assistant (Practical AI #278)

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In the midst of the demos & discussion about OpenAI’s GPT-4o voice assistant, Kyutai swooped in to release the first real-time AI voice assistant model and a pretty slick demo (Moshi). Chris & Daniel discuss what this more open approach to a voice assistant might catalyze. They also discuss recent changes to Gartner’s ranking of GenAI on their hype cycle.

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Featuring:

• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Kyutai
• Kyutai keynote video
• Gartner Hype Cycle for AI

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Chapters

1. Welcome to Practical AI (00:00:00)

2. Moshi AI (00:00:43)

3. OpenAI deja vu? (00:07:32)

4. Where is open source AI research? (00:10:36)

5. Sponsor: Plumb (00:13:29)

https://useplumb.com/

6. Gartner hype cycle (00:15:11)

7. Return to engineering? (00:26:08)

8. Sponsor: Motific (00:29:00)

https://www.motific.ai/

9. AI's importance (00:31:12)

10. We just don't know yet (00:34:29)

11. Daniel's view of AI (00:39:07)

12. Outro (00:42:35)