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Block’s Voice AI Wins Praise and Triggers Scam Concerns

Payments company Block has introduced an artificial intelligence model trained solely using human conversation. Dessa, as the model is known, learned to hold real-time conversations just by listening, Block said in its announcement Friday (Oct. 23). “As far as we know, Dessa is the world’s first AI you can have a realistic live conversation with […] The post Block’s Voice AI Wins Praise and…

Block’s Voice AI Wins Praise and Triggers Scam Concerns

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