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This makes private conversations that much more valuable to ad companies: if WhatsApp sells all your conversation packaged into a model similar to this, most of your personality is easily summarised to be targeted.
Why not learn from normal text-files instead? Why connect it to a facebook-owned, proprietary service?
This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?
"Three years ago, Kuyda hadn’t intended to make an emotional chatbot for the public. Instead, she’d created one as a “digital memorial” for her closest friend, Roman Mazurenko, who had died abruptly in a car accident in 2015. At the time, Kuyda had been building a messenger bot that could do things like make restaurant reservations. She used the basic infrastructure from her bot project to create something new, feeding her text messages with Mazurenko into a neural network and creating a bot in his likeness. The exercise was eye-opening. If Kuyda could make something that she could talk to—and that could talk back—almost like her friend then maybe, she realized, she could empower others to build something similar for themselves." https://www.wired.com/story/replika-open-source/
Or a more in depth read: https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memo...
You can talk with the deceased friend: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roman-mazurenko/id958946383?...
This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?
(There are also "alpha simulations" referenced which were experimental direct mind uploads. The experiment was never repeated because, due to some deficiency in the process, the uploads went mad.)
I built the bot as a gift for a friend, and didn't really see the Black Mirror angle, even though I have seen the series.
Anyway, if someone is interested in building extensions of this, please write to me at smadan@mit.edu, I'd be happy to collaborate and guide :)
This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?
Lyrebird ( https://lyrebird.ai/ ) is trying to the voice imitation component.
This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?
This is literally a Black Mirror episode - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back Synopsis: "The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it. "Be Right Back"…
This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say. When you talk with the bot, it replies back with your own voice, basically Siri with your own voice and attitude. It would be the best thing one could leave behind after his death. Is it possible to pull off something like this?
This is literally a Black Mirror episode - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back Synopsis: "The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it. "Be Right Back"…
That's a mass media instantiation of the premise of I am a strange loop, by douglas Hofstadter, which is to be honest a tome lamenting the passing of his wife