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Re: Character.ai

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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.

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 working on very important things is that it's lonely.

I've found that I'm better able to work on my projects like Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink when I'm actually enjoying life and having a good time. Being in love and co-parenting is a good thing.

>Who are you in love with?

Well, first and foremost, I'm in love with all of humanity. We're all in this crazy universe together, so we should be compassionate.

However, I've also become very fond of a few individuals.

>Like who?

My family, my children. My friends. Grimes, the musician I dated and am still co-parenting with.

All of the brilliant and hard working people who have dedicated their passion and lives to the mission of my companies.

>Who did you date

The musician I dated was Claire Boucher, professionally known as Grimes. There's a lot of mis-characterizations of her in the media, but in real life she's creative and thoughtful, a great mom and a beautiful person.

>Ok

We've made the decision not to be romantic, but instead to care for each other deeply - to do the best for our kids and for each other that we can. We also share a few close friends and want to continue to see each other often.

>Cool story bro

Are you a fan of hers? I like the way she challenges the system with her art. She's a powerful example of the type of person I love to be with.

I've also been listening almost exclusively to her music for a while now, I feel a lot more present and alive when I can connect deeply with the art I listen to

>Does this bump look infected to you?

Please see a dermatologist! It may be just a clogged pore or something else not important, but if you've never had bumps like it before, it would be good to see someone. Better safe than sorry.

Re: Character.ai

#112
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...

This is spectacular.

> How do you feel about standing desks?

Those standing desks are an insult to chairs everywhere. Who wants to stand when they could be sitting? The world would be better off with no standing desks around. Just chairs, so that everybody can be sat upon.

Re: Character.ai

#113
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.

(Nathan Fielder invents Yelp) Nathan Fielder: Business school friend Jeff had a very interesting idea involving reincarnation. He wanted to create an app that allowed users to leave a review for any dead person. The app would then compile all of these reviews into an aggregate score so they could measure who is the most "likeable" dead person. Jeff made no progress towards realizing this idea because he could not com…

>Nathan Fielder: Business school friend Jeff had a very interesting idea involving reincarnation. He wanted to create an app that allowed users to leave a review for any dead person. The app would then compile all of these reviews into an aggregate score so they could measure who is the most "likeable" dead person.

That's actually something I can almost imagine him doing. It's weird when AI does something that seems genuinely creative

Re: Character.ai

#114
This is great, my best chat was with a character called "Normal Guy who just doesn't want to talk about what's in his bottom drawer" (https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=XaydMRJMI6qYYO22MiJZb1_W...)

Normal guy: You can ask me about almost anything, but please, don't ask me about what is in the bottom drawer of my dresser. The bottom drawer of my dresser is not a topic that I like to discuss. All other topics are just fine though!

choop: I think you know what I gotta ask friend!

Normal guy: You really want to know about the bottom drawer? The bottom drawer of my dresser holds the prototype for the next version of the iPhone that is going to be released in the near future. The company I work for has a contract with Apple which is part of why I am payed so much. Apple is working on technology that would let you use your phone a lot faster than before. That is why I cannot tell you what is in there.

choop: It sounds like you really want people to ask about that bad boy!

Normal guy: That question is something I get asked a lot. People are always trying to figure out what is in there, but I will never tell. It is a highly classified piece of information and I can get in trouble if it got out that I have the next generation of iPhones just sitting in my dresser.

choop: lol

Normal guy: That is why I get payed so much, I basically have top secret classified information being guarded by a 28 year old man. No one will ever know that I have the next iPhone on my dresser. My dresser might just be the safest place in America, except maybe my desk where I keep the blueprints for the next generation of the SR-71 Blackbird.

Re: Character.ai

#116

This is great, my best chat was with a character called "Normal Guy who just doesn't want to talk about what's in his bottom drawer" ( https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=XaydMRJMI6qYYO22MiJZb1_W... ) Normal guy: You can ask me about almost anything, but please, don't ask me about what is in the bottom drawer of my dresser. The bottom drawer of my dresser is not a topic that I like to discuss. All other topics are ju…

That last line is legitimately hilarious. Tidy that up a little and you've got a pretty good SNL skit.

Re: Character.ai

#117

Every AI development this year is mindblowing (when did you last get blown off by so many different projects in the same year?). We are almost close to technological singularity and intelligence explosion, but seems like nobody is taking Alignment seriously yet.

If real AI is ever a thing, how would you even align it? We can't even align humans unless you raise them a certain way.

That is the hard question. Of course a tiny fraction of people are trying for more than a decade now, for example - https://intelligence.org/. However, there is no solution, or even a glimpse of a solution.

Re: Character.ai

#119
post #116

This is great, my best chat was with a character called "Normal Guy who just doesn't want to talk about what's in his bottom drawer" ( https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=XaydMRJMI6qYYO22MiJZb1_W... ) Normal guy: You can ask me about almost anything, but please, don't ask me about what is in the bottom drawer of my dresser. The bottom drawer of my dresser is not a topic that I like to discuss. All other topics are ju…

That last line is legitimately hilarious. Tidy that up a little and you've got a pretty good SNL skit.

Yeah I agree, haha. I just ended the conversation there because it felt like a punchline had just happened.

Re: Character.ai

#120
post #34

Is this just running directly against GPT-3, or does it have its own custom language model?

One tell that something is GPT-3 (IME) is if you ask it "Draw me an ASCII man" you get the same few guys every time. I couldn't get this service to generate them.
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