Can you tell if your interviewer is AI? This model fooled 48% of participants: ‘I thought it was human’

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly advanced, with tools now capable of creating realistic images, videos, and human-like conversations. A US-based startup has now claimed that its latest AI model can appear so realistic that people may mistake it for a human during a job interview.

According to a report by the New York Post, Tavus, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area, said its latest AI model, Griffin, fooled 48% of the 54 participants who took part in a simulated job interview. These participants believed they were interacting with a real person.

The company said the findings suggest that Griffin could pass the Turing Test, which assesses whether a machine can behave in a way that is indistinguishable from a human.

Participants who thought the interviewer was human were, on average, 79% confident in their judgement. Meanwhile, those who correctly identified it as a bot were 81% confident in their assessment.

How does Tavus' AI avatar work?

Tavus said Griffin creates every pixel in each video frame in real time using a single reference image.

The technology generates the avatar's entire appearance, including its face, arms and fingers. It can also reproduce finer details, such as a chair moving, the shadows it creates and elements of the surrounding background.

The AI avatars are available in male and female appearances and are designed to imitate natural human behaviour, including blinking and breathing.

Hassaan Raza, CEO and co-founder of Tavus, said face-to-face conversations involve several elements beyond the words people speak. Facial expressions, tone of voice, gestures and the timing of responses all contribute to human communication.

“Humans are evolutionarily designed to communicate face to face. We speak as much through our words as we do our expressions, tone, gestures and timing. So much of human communication is non-verbal. It’s an art, a dance,” Raza said, as per the New York Post.

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