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Re: Character.ai

#51

Pretty slick technology. I had a decent conversation with AI Elon Musk. Here is the chat: https://character.ai/p/QdjDmor_kkdj-kbeSspEgH6pl8jkfevFnIgJ5... https://twitter.com/ElijahLynn/status/1575558627553058817

I just noticed that the Twitter link shows a 1 minute video of the conversation, and scrolls down it slowly. Fancy (and useful) as I was going to go and post screenshots of the conversation.

Re: Character.ai

#52
post #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.

I guess it's probably something along the lines of "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications" (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239 ). Given that the three first authors are part of the team at Character.ai (see https://beta.character.ai/help)

Re: Character.ai

#53
post #47

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?

No this is an actual AI.

Re: Character.ai

#54
post #34

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

Not GPT-3. I believe it's a bunch of ex-Googlers who worked on their large language models.

You're right, it seems to be "LaMDA" (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239 ). The three first authors are part of the Character.ai team.

Re: Character.ai

#55

I made one (unofficial) for Hacker News: https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=dkdM2-geGVTkR742bWfEqeGm...

me say something controversial UnofficialHackerNews I have two controversial opinions: 1. I believe that most humans are fundamentally decent 2. I'm not a huge fan of Rust. C++ is the superior systems programming language

Okay, that's pretty good. We have been collectively roasted.

Re: Character.ai

#56

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…

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Re: Character.ai

#57
This is super impressive. Insane how much context the model can learn from a simple introduction phrase... I created a top10bot: https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=fBk7hTxkWeVGPpvZbEJKg7Cj...

Not always 10, but always relevant responses and insights...

User

How to make your startup more attractive to VCs?

Top10Bot:

Here are the Top 5 tips to make your startup more attractive to VCs:

1.) Have a compelling business plan. This will convince them that your idea has the potential to be profitable.

2.) Have a good team. VCs are more likely to invest in startups with solid leadership and expertise.

3.) Come up with a strong pitch. This will help you sell yourself and your idea.

4.) Have a solid revenue model. Show them how you're going to make money!

Re: Character.ai

#58
Impressive.

After some chats with Elon, I made a character for an inanimate object (inspired by the fantastic Everything is Alive podcast). Rental car told me that some customers were very kind to her and invited her to dinner :)

Re: Character.ai

#60
post #57

This is super impressive. Insane how much context the model can learn from a simple introduction phrase... I created a top10bot: https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=fBk7hTxkWeVGPpvZbEJKg7Cj... Not always 10, but always relevant responses and insights... User How to make your startup more attractive to VCs? Top10Bot: Here are the Top 5 tips to make your startup more attractive to VCs: 1.) Have a compelling business pl…

Now turn each of these into a couple meaningless paragraphs that hit SEO terms and you have a front page blog post.
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