Startup Tavus says its new Griffin AI avatar has passed a job-interview Turing test. In the company's test, 48% of 54 participants mistook the AI interviewer for a real human.
Griffin's trick is rendering fidelity: the model generates every pixel of each video frame in real time from a single reference photo, producing a lifelike interviewer that speaks and reacts live.
Whether "nearly half fooled" counts as passing is debatable — the bar in Turing-style tests is famously squishy — but the result is a striking marker of how far real-time AI avatars have come. The implications for hiring, recruiting, and the already murky world of video interviews are hard to overstate.
— via NY Post.