'Warn your family': New AI becomes first ever model to pass video Turing test

Tavus, a company that creates AI models, has revealed a new technology that could change everything about how we interact with the technology.

Its product Griffin, which is the first Human Interaction Model, is something that could fool even the hardiest of AI sceptics into believing it’s human.

The full-duplex, video-to-video model is something that talks face-to-face via video chat in real time.

From there, it can see, hear and talk as though a natural interaction with another person, where it bases its responses and tone off what it interprets from your video.

In a video the company shared to X which explores its model and just how life-like it really is, viewers can see ‘Griffin’ as a redhead who likes to make fun of others and talk about its own existence and what it means for the future.

“Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test,” the clip’s caption claimed, revealing that ‘48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human.’

The company also alleged that ‘previous systems have had a pass rate <3%’.

The Turing test is a benchmark for which is a ‘test of a machine's ability to demonstrate human-like intelligence’ which was first introduced by Alan Turing in 1950, per the Alan Turing Institute.

So, for Griffin to pass, it would mean that the model had to be a convincing intelligent products that would pass if the ‘evaluator cannot tell from the written responses which is the human and which is the machine.’

Despite this being a major breakthrough in the technological space, the implications of a life-like AI have caused some to worry, with an X user writing: “Warn your family about this.”

They added that this could be a dangerous slope for criminals who want to better scam people and falsify identification to poach inheritance checks.

However, the company believes it is still a product at work.

“AI has become incredibly intelligent, but we still have to meet the machine on its terms. Griffin is a step toward changing that — toward machines that understand how we naturally communicate and meet us where we are,” shared the company in a statement, per Business Wire.

“For decades, we’ve imagined computers as partners, not just tools,” said Hassaan Raza, CEO of Tavus. “AI has become incredibly intelligent, but we still have to meet the machine on its terms. Griffin is a step toward changing that — toward machines that understand how we naturally communicate and meet us where we are. That’s what we mean by human computing.”

According to the company, Griffin ‘listens while they talk, and they pay attention to expressions and pauses, not just words’ and also has ‘learned to express behaviors, emotions, and gestures according to conversational context.’

It added that Griffin 'laughs, changes its tone, and shifts in response to what the other person says and does.’

UNILAD Tech reached out to Tavus for comment.