Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I just spent half an hour in conversation with this AI created by a company called Sesame using a 'Conversational Speech Model' based on soma Llama models. There are some obvious weaknesses still but it did keep me engaged for the full half hour - it did quite well working with me through my thoughts on Mark Carney's Value(s), which I have been reading. I should have recorded the discussion (it doesn't save the recordings or transcripts, though of course I could have just used a screen recorder). It didn't work on Firefox (probably an issue with permissions).

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Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
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Last Updated: Oct 06, 2026 03:53 a.m.

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