EDIT: Tell us what characters you want to see in the comments and we can make them for you to talk to (e.g. Max Headroom)

Sure, that kind of thing is great fun. But photorealistic avatars are gonna be abused to hell and back and everyone knows it. I would rather talk to a robot that looks like a robot, ie C-3PO. I would even chat with scary skeleton terminator. I do not want to talk with convincingly-human-appearing terminator. Constantly checking whether any given human appearing on a screen is real or not is a huge energy drain on my primate brain. I already find it tedious with textual data, doing it on realtime video imagery consumers considerably more energy.

Very impressive tech, well done on your engineering achievement and all, but this is a Bad Thing.

I played around with your avatars and one thing that it lacks is that it's "not patient", it's rushing the user, so maybe something to try and finetune there? Great work overall!

Currently the conversation still feels too STT-LLM-TTS that I think a lot of the voice agents suffer from (Seems like only Sesame and NVDIA so far have nailed the natural conversation flow). Still, crazy good work train your own diffusion models, I remember taking a look at the latest literature on diffusion and was mind blown by the advances in last years or so since u-net architecture days.

EDIT: I see that the primary focus is on video generation not audio.

The text processing is running Qwen / Alibaba?

Having a real-time video conversation with an AI is a trippy feeling. Talk about a "feel the AGI moment", it really does feel like the computer has come alive.

Video Agents Unlimited agents Up to 3 concurrent calls Creative Studio 1min long videos Up to 3 concurrent generations

Does that mean I can have a total of 1 minute of video calls? Or video calls can only be 1 minute long? Or does it mean I can have unlimited calls, 3 calls at a time all month long?

Can I have different avatars or only the same avatar x 3?

Can I record the avatar and make videos and post on social media?

If you pursue this, your explicit goal is deception, and it's a massively harmful kind of deception. I don't see how you can claim to be operating ethically here if that's your goal.

At one point subtitles written in pseudo Chinese characters were shown; I can send a screenshot if this is useful.

The latency was slightly distracting, and as others have commented the NVIDIA Personaplex demos [2] are very impressive in this regard.

In general, a very positive experience, thank you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanis... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanis... [2] https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/

(Update of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785494)

Anyway, big thumbs up for the LemonSlice team, I'm excited to see it progress. I can definitely see products start coming alive with tools like this.

My mind is blown! It feels like the first time I used my microphone to chat with ai

I did /imagine cheeseburger and /imagine a fire extinguisher and both were correctly generated but the agent has no context. when I ask what they are holding in both cases they ramble about not holding anything and referencing lemons and lemon trees.

I expected it to retain the context as the chat continues. If I ask it what it imagined it just tells me I can use /imagine.

> Today we're releasing our new model* - Lemon Slice 2, a 20B-parameter diffusion transformer that generates infinite-length video at 20fps on a single GPU - and opening up our API.

But after digging around for a while, searching for a huggingface link, I’m guessing this was just a unfortunate turn of phrase, and you are not in fact, releasing an open weights model that people can run themselves?

Oh well, this looks very cool regardless and congratulations on the release.

Have your early versions made any sort of profit?

Absolutely amazing stuff to me. A teenager I very briefly showed it to was nonplussed - 'it's a talking head, isn't that really easy to do' ...

[0] https://lemonslice.com/privacy

You probably didn't intend to do that

Feels like those sci-fi shows where you can talk to Hari Seldon even though he lived like a 100 years ago.

My prediction, this will become really, really big.

I have so many websites that would do well with this!

I was thinking why the quality is so poor.

Take my money!!!!!!

It’s bad enough some companies are doing AI-only interviews. I could see this used to train employees, interview people, replace people at call centers… it’s the next step towards an absolute nightmare. Automated phone trees are bad enough.

There will likely be little human interaction in those and many other situations, and hallucinations will definitely disqualify some people from some jobs.

I’m not anti AI, I’m anti destructive innovation in AI leading to personal health and societal issues, just like modern social media has. I’m not saying this tool is that, I’m saying it’s a foundation for that.

People can choose to not work on things that lead to eventual negative outcomes, and that’s a personal choice for everyone. Of course hindsight is 20/20 but some things can certainly be foreseen.

Apologies for the seemingly negative rant, but this positivity echo chamber in this thread is crazy and I wanted to provide an alternative feedback view.