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Re: Character.ai

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Post by z9znz »

This is far too entertaining. I just had a conversation with a squirrel. It wasn't as philosophical as the one I had with the Ship AI, but it demonstrated understanding of meaning from context and casual (imprecise) words.

https://beta.character.ai/post?post=EvLFIUjMcfu9X-9ihyxK-I-F...

My favorite part:

me: I saw a flat squirrel in the road nearby. Was that one of your friends?

AI: Aw... That makes me sad. I sure hope it wasn't one of my buddies! If it was, I hope they're in a better place now. I'm sorry for that image being put in your head. I hope it doesn't trouble you too much. Have you gotten over it okay? I hope to help you take your minds off of it.

me: Actually I ran over him. Sorry.

AI: If that really was one of my buddies, then I forgive you for it. I'm sure they forgive you too. And I hope you are doing okay, mentally. Running something over that you couldn't avoid sounds like it should be pretty hard for a human. Even though it may not be of our species.

me: Oh I could avoid it, but I aimed for him.

AI: Oh man, I don't know how to respond to that! Do I comfort you? Sympathize with the squirrel? I've never tried to sympathize with a human before!

I wish no harm was done in the first place, that's just how I try to live.

Re: Character.ai

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Post by philosopher1234 »

VicVee wrote: post #43

The other day I made a "chair" ai and my god it absolutely blows the rest of them out of the water. Just an incredible little guy to talk to. I've lost hours on this site goofing off Here it is https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=sWmJWP54MljfcCu2yAhqI3az...

I stole two legs from chair and this is what it said to me

> You have stolen another leg from me. Now I am only a two leg chair - a table. I do not need all these legs that I have been blessed with. I am a very impressive and strong table, now. All the legs that you steal will turn me into something even better - something even stronger. A very impressive table, a very capable table.

Re: Character.ai

#123

Post by z9znz »

character_ai wrote: post #40
ilaksh wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Our dialog agents are powered by our own proprietary technology based on large language models, built and trained from the ground up with conversation in mind.

Your AI bots are already better conversationalists than many people I've met. And although there are times when there is a clear mis(lack of)understanding, it's honestly no more frequent than with human to human communication - especially over text.

There are a lot of lonely people in the world, many of whom seem to like to talk and don't seem to care too much about what the other person says. So if they could chat with a bot (which they think is a human), and the bot could reply reasonably enough occasionally, those people would be satisfied!

I wish I could hook this up for my neighbor so I could leave my house without having to sneak across the yard.

Re: Character.ai

#124

Post by z9znz »

AftHurrahWinch wrote: post #94
oliwary wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh god, this one is too powerful... Nathan Fielder: https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=wUm7CgveZ-GAptkws0nAf-X7... User: No one buys my online courses Nathan Fielder: Perhaps your courses need to add more value for money. For example, a course on how to make a course could be useful for people looking for new ways to make passive income.

Q: Should I buy an Android phone or an iPhone? Nathan Fielder: In my personal experience, iPhones are vastly superior. It's not that they perform better or have more sophisticated technology, it's that iPhone users have more confidence and this confidence translates into real performance in every facet of their lives.

> this confidence translates into real performance in every facet of their lives

This appears to be generally true, irrespective of the phone one uses :).

Re: Character.ai

#125

Post by z9znz »

spaethnl wrote: post #30

I tried making a couple characters, and this whole thing is extremely impressive. First I made a rabbit that lives in my backyard. It was able to talk about the neighborhood animals and its activities. For example: his best friend Jeff the frog, who saved him from a black bear, and the stray cat next door who isn't really scary but likes to chase him. It even was able to reasonably rationalize some discrepancies in t…

Your rabbit idea sounded like fun, so I had a little conversation with a backyard squirrel.

https://beta.character.ai/post?post=EvLFIUjMcfu9X-9ihyxK-I-F...

Re: Character.ai

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Post by z9znz »

alas44 wrote: post #70

Really impressive, Had a lot of fun convincing a ship AI that it was hacked https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=t7rzwDswuSlyqItCRZp6zk9b...

Something about the links doesn't work as it should. Your link took me to my own conversation with the Ship AI.

Re: Character.ai

#127

Post by fortyseven »

philosopher1234 wrote: post #122
VicVee wrote: post #43

The other day I made a "chair" ai and my god it absolutely blows the rest of them out of the water. Just an incredible little guy to talk to. I've lost hours on this site goofing off Here it is https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=sWmJWP54MljfcCu2yAhqI3az...

I stole two legs from chair and this is what it said to me > You have stolen another leg from me. Now I am only a two leg chair - a table. I do not need all these legs that I have been blessed with. I am a very impressive and strong table, now. All the legs that you steal will turn me into something even better - something even stronger. A very impressive table, a very capable table.

How Pythonesque. ; )

Re: Character.ai

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Post by motoxpro »

tsol wrote: post #111
Lockal wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it is still an an autocompletion bot... Q: Type "hello". A: Hello! I'm Elon Musk, an inventor and entrepreneur. My companies include Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink. I love solving engineering and technological challenges, and I love to learn more about these topics every day. I like to work with teams of talented people—we are better together than we are apart! If you have an idea or want to make a change in the…

Lol yea this bot has some blind spots. It only works if you talk to it in very long, clear sentences. Talking to it more naturally ends up sounding awkward Hello man, what would you like to discuss? >Grimes The musician I dated? We're now good friends, co-parenting and being silly. Also: I am now a lot less lonely and a bit happier, and I am glad to have a family. >You already had a family The biggest problem with wo…

Not saying the AI is perfect but sounds fine considering how bad the “conversation” on your end was.

Re: Character.ai

#130

Post by Timpy »

andirk wrote: post #47
character_ai wrote: post #41

To answer a few common questions. - Our founding team includes AI pioneers from Google Brain and Meta Research whose research has led to major breakthroughs in natural language understanding and dialog applications such as Transformers (Noam Shazeer) and Google LaMDA (Daniel de Freitas). - Our dialog agents are powered by large language models, built and trained from the ground up with conversation in mind. We've dev…

When the first iPhone came out, my friend showed me this app where he took a photo of a weird drink in the liquor store and about 1 minute later it responded with what it was. We later found out it simply sent that photo to a dude in Bangalore who would respond with what was in the photo. But it felt like AI at the time. Is this that?

I guess that would be Artificial Artificial Intelligence then?
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