Weekly links Friday, April 10th, 2026
A highly realistic conversational AI avatar - this is the first time I have gotten on a call with an AI and thought "this looks and sounds like a human."
https://huggingface.co/spaces/tventurella/mr_chatterbox
Have a chat with this perfect gentleman 🫖 🎩
"Mr. Chatterbox is a language model trained from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library. He is not a modern AI putting on an accent — his vocabulary, ideas, and worldview are all drawn from nineteenth-century literature."
https://waitbutwhy.com/2024/02/vision-pro.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3CZD-K04KI
VR tech has gotten very good! This is so cool.
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