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GPT Live Voice: The Babel Fish Arrives
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Peter Diamandis plays a demo of GPT Live — OpenAI's full-duplex bidirectional voice model — showing it seamlessly correcting a non-native English speaker mid-sentence ('I have never went' becomes 'I've never been') without breaking the conversational flow. The reaction is genuinely awed. Salim Ismail draws an elegant analogy to CB radios, where users had to say 'Over and out, 10-4' — an 'interaction tax' that no longer exists. Dave Blundin argues this has crossed the equivalent of the Pixar threshold for animated film: prior voice AI was behind the 'cool valley,' and this model has crossed it, just as Steve Jobs pushed computer animation over the line into mainstream movies. Dave predicts it will be embedded in every device — washing machines, medical equipment, wearables — within six months. Alex adds that Chinese lab Alibaba's Wan Streamer is already further along: ultra-low latency bidirectional audio and video with real-time generated hallucinated conversation partners [1] — Dave Blundin "GPT Live's full-duplex voice model doesn't just respond — it interrupts naturally to correct your grammar and translates conversations in r…" 23:40 [2] — Peter Diamandis "The Babel fish is here, and it's OpenAI right now." 27:58 .
GPT Live's full-duplex voice model doesn't just respond — it interrupts naturally to correct your grammar and translates conversations in real time. Dave Blundin compares it to Pixar crossing the animated film threshold: prior voice AI was behind the cool valley, and this has finally crossed it. The Babel fish is here.
Apple filed a 41-page federal complaint accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets at every level — from technical staff to chief hardware officer — to build Jony Ive's AI device. Two named Apple veterans are accused of downloading confidential files and bypassing security. This isn't just a lawsuit: it's a fight for who owns the post-smartphone era.
