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Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas.

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Mati Staniszewski and his team at @ElevenLabs have built amazing text-to-speech and speech-to-text models, and are now expanding into voice agents. In this episode of Cheeky Pint, I asked why one of the longest-promised UIs in computing ("Open the pod bay doors, HAL" was 1968!) has been so slow in arriving. Along with lots of details on how voice AI actually works at a technical level.

00:00:27 How audio models work
00:08:52 ElevenLabs business model
00:17:50 The conversational Turing Test
00:21:01 Link by Stripe
00:26:02 Cascaded vs speech-to-speech
00:31:53 Universal translation
00:51:41 Designing an AI-native org