India, Oct. 12 -- Artificial intelligence has evolved rapidly in recent years, with AI tools increasingly capable of generating realistic images, videos and human-like conversations. Now, a US-based startup has claimed that its AI avatar can pass for a human in a job interview.

According to a report by the New York Post, Bay Area-based startup Tavus said its latest AI model, Griffin, fooled 48% of the 54 participants who interacted with it during a simulated job interview, leading them to believe they were speaking to a real person.

The company said that the results suggest that Griffin can pass the Turing Test, which measures whether a machine can exhibit behaviour indistinguishable from that of a human. Participants who believed the i...