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Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by oldlaikman »

Thank you for all of the comments. As an indie iOS developer, creating apps related to AI has been my passion. It's not just because it's the latest trend, but because I've dedicated myself to researching and learning about computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning. I truly believe that AI will be an integral part of our lives and making it accessible through apps can be a fun and exciting way to experience it.

I would like to address a couple of comments that were made. Firstly, pricing was brought up, and I want to assure you that I conducted thorough research to ensure that the prices were reasonable. You can check other chatgpt kinda apps, you will see that they have higher prices.

Another comment was made about the characters and their responses, which I acknowledge is an area that needs improvement. This is just the first version of the app, and I am committed to enhancing it in the future. While my goal was to create an app that is both educational and entertaining, I also want to stress that I cannot guarantee that everything the bot says is necessarily true or correct. We've seen examples of bad, funny, or even dangerous responses from big companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft.

In any case, I want to thank everyone who has tried my app. Your feedback is invaluable and helps me to continue developing and improving my work.

Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by icepat »

sjcobb wrote: post #12
icepat wrote: post #4

This is not "talk to historic figures", this sounds like "talk to a machine that writes stylised after historic figures". I highly doubt Shakespeare spoke in sonnets.

The Socrates and Sir Isaac Newton models actually talked basically the same so not sure it is even trying to stylize the text. Overall it barely works, I tried it and a lot of my questions got no response at all

Likely a very basic GPT under the hood, cross-trained on specific corpuses for each author.

Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by oldlaikman »

swatcoder wrote: post #6
oldlaikman wrote: post #2

Introducing TalkTo AI, the app that lets you chat with historical figures using cutting-edge AI technology. Want to ask Socrates what he thinks of modern politics? Or get Marie Curie's thoughts on the latest scientific breakthroughs? With TalkTo AI, you can have conversations with famous historical figures like never before. Our app uses advanced machine learning algorithms to create realistic, engaging conversations…

You’re about to get ragged on because you posted this to a site full of people who know the limitations of your technology. But that said, assuming this was a low-cost/low-risk demo project for your firm, it’s a classic entry in building a little carriage store on the gold rush routes. People (but not HN people) are looking for stuff like this and will have fun with it. It’ll help people better understand the limitat…

I thank for your support and comments. I do not why but people are really mean and, negative comments are okay but some of them just cruel.

Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by krapp »

iamdbtoo wrote: post #27
teraflop wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See, for instance, the conversations in this thread with figures like Henry Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Lyndon Johnson: https://twitter.com/ZaneGTCooper/status/1615577714836275200

I agree with the original point, but giving an answer that shows yourself in the most favorable light seems like what these bots should be doing. Despite the innaccuracies, I think that's pretty much the angle someone like Reagan would take if confronted now about those events.

If people are using this app to learn about these figures, and by extension history, then prevarication and falsehood amounts to propaganda and historical revisionism. People aren't going to treat these apps like games, but as authoritative sources of truth.

Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by toxicFork »

pksebben wrote: post #30
toxicFork wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the bot needs to retain conversation memory, it will cost around 4 cents per message once the conversation gets long enough. I guess they are also inspired by chat gpt plus prices. Source: I am building a competitor

how long is that? back of the envelope suggests that breaks even around 500 messages at max price

It's a statistical play - if on average, subscribers send less than 500 messages per month, it's profitable.

Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by sebastianconcpt »

kbarmettler wrote: post #21
sebastianconcpt wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like when Captain Janeway went to the holodeck to have a chat with the holographic synthetic Leonardo Da Vinci.

I was thinking also when Geordi LaForge created Leah Brahmes to learn more about the Enterprise's engines... that didn't lead to ANY problems!

I don't remember that episode but is a no brainer to understand that mixing fantasy with reality has the ambiguity of being really nice or smoothing the path to catastrophe.

Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by toxicFork »

koochi10 wrote: post #26

This is eerily similar to what I have created, even the U.I. is basically identical. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/historical-figures-chat/id6444... Shameless plug I guess but I support over 20,000 Historical Figures plus group chats.

How did you even manage to find these figures? Is there a Wikipedia list? Do you know which ones are most popular for your app?

Disclaimer: I am also making a chat bot

Re: Chat with Historical Figures Using AI – Learn from the Past in a Fun New Way

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Post by toxicFork »

pksebben wrote: post #30
toxicFork wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the bot needs to retain conversation memory, it will cost around 4 cents per message once the conversation gets long enough. I guess they are also inspired by chat gpt plus prices. Source: I am building a competitor

how long is that? back of the envelope suggests that breaks even around 500 messages at max price

Regarding how long: it depends on length of messages. But let's say when there are around 2000 words total in the conversation.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-...

2 cents per 1k tokens

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