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Re: Character.ai

#11
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another site that unnecessary wants me to sign up.

Is it unnecessary, or did they save spending money on your instance of an AI when you probably weren't going to pay them anyway?

The "haha, I prevented the adoption of my product and therefore saved a bunch of money!" business model.

Re: Character.ai

#12
post #7

another site that unnecessary wants me to sign up.

Agree. I see this and instantly close it. I'm not signing up on a site that is completely unknown unless you have a very good case for the value you present. This is a toy, at least in its current form.

Re: Character.ai

#13
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it unnecessary, or did they save spending money on your instance of an AI when you probably weren't going to pay them anyway?

The "haha, I prevented the adoption of my product and therefore saved a bunch of money!" business model.

Sshh, not in front of the VCs

Re: Character.ai

#14
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another site that unnecessary wants me to sign up.

Is it unnecessary, or did they save spending money on your instance of an AI when you probably weren't going to pay them anyway?

At least give me 1 min as marketing cost, no?

I have no clue what to expect, so it's hard to know if I could even be a customer. I thought I might be, but I am not gonna sign up to find out.

Re: Character.ai

#15
I'm surprised, I haven't actually encountered any issues yet after talking to 3 different bots. Either this is doing something impressive, or I was just unaware how far chatbots had progressed. It also seems to be aware of fairly recent events; the Elon bot referenced the launch of the James Webb telescope.

Re: Character.ai

#16
This is fantastic. I've created John Maynard Keynes and am asking a series of economic questions. While my previous chat with Elon had me worrying about his frame of mind, as an educational tool, this is fantastic.

Just think what the difference is between interactive learning via a teacher and book-learning. With a teacher, you can ask for questions, ask for elaboration, and discover new terms and concepts you don't know you don't know.

This is possible with this tool. Asking the right questions leads to terms and concept you may not have heard, which you can then explore. This needs to be hooked up to a 3D avatar and voice synthesis, with microphone & camera access.

I can really see this technology, in a more refined state, as a potential future of education. Really exciting.

Re: Character.ai

#17

I'm surprised, I haven't actually encountered any issues yet after talking to 3 different bots. Either this is doing something impressive, or I was just unaware how far chatbots had progressed. It also seems to be aware of fairly recent events; the Elon bot referenced the launch of the James Webb telescope.

it's impressive indeed and the advice is mostly sound, but i did manage to uncover a few inconsistencies.

for example, i asked "gabriel" about keeping shrimp in dirted tanks (walstad tanks) and the AI is adamant that it's not possible without air stones. also "... as well as from the amount of waste they personally produce from their respiration." (the waste they refer to isn't from respiration). all in all, tho, it's pretty close.

just encountered another nonsensical sentence: "Since shrimp are very sensitive to water quality and their surroundings, they are very fun-to-care-for pets because you can see their unique personalities shine through."

Re: Character.ai

#18
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another site that unnecessary wants me to sign up.

Is it unnecessary, or did they save spending money on your instance of an AI when you probably weren't going to pay them anyway?

Well I guess they won't find out, it is foolish to think a product like this sells itself so well that I would bother to create an account to see if the product meets my needs. A series of cards and head shots mean nothing in this context.

Re: Character.ai

#19
Played with this for a bit and this feels weirdly dangerous, though awesome.

A lot of the technical questions I asked were just … not answered correctly, beyond surface level stuff like "What is …". There's nuance and abstractions the AI doesn't understand, while sounding very authoritative when answering.

Re: Character.ai

#20

I'm surprised, I haven't actually encountered any issues yet after talking to 3 different bots. Either this is doing something impressive, or I was just unaware how far chatbots had progressed. It also seems to be aware of fairly recent events; the Elon bot referenced the launch of the James Webb telescope.

It's amazing to me. How did they do it? Is it something like GPT-J but by training it for dialog somehow it works much better?

Maybe GPT was already better than I realized. Or it's something different that I haven't heard about.

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