Block just announced Dessa, a full-duplex AI voice model trained entirely on human speech. No text, no pretrained models. It learned to hold real-time conversations just by listening. Block says it's the first AI you can have a live conversation with that was trained only from human speech. Now inviting AI safety researchers to explore what it can and can't do.

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I predict you’re going to see entire radio stations run by AI with AI voices. The DJ is going to be AI. Even answering the phone to take music requests will be AI. And it’ll all sound like you’re talking to someone real until it doesn’t understand what you said and then it will sound ridiculous.
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