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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 developed novel proprietary technology and have an ambitious research and product roadmap ahead.

- We're hiring! See our job descriptions here: https://jobs.lever.co/character.

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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?

Honestly I almost asked a similar question because this is so humanlike. But why would they need so many geniuses just to scam people like that?

No this is an actual AI.

It responds way too quickly. No human could have a duty-cycle like that for extended periods of time, while remaining an affordable Mechanical Turk style employee.

I guess that would be Artificial Artificial Intelligence then?

i noticed the bots have problems with events that happened recently, for example, it's in denial about the queens death.

now my question is, do you have to re-train it continously on current news? would incorporating information gained from talking to the users theoretically possible? i guess it would be very problematic due to corruption from troll, but lets say, in theorie: could the users convince it that elizabeth has died? or would this new conversation never "weight" enough to override the information from the huge training text corpus?

Your service is (forgive the crude language) fucking amazing. I have never seen a chatbot so coherent and actually possible to converse with. It even has a short term memory! Just that fact absolutely blows me away, and makes a whole range of conversations possible. And the side-swipe to select different responses? Absolutely delightful, because some of the non-default responses made me actually chuckle with glee at how good they are, in ways that I would absolutely not expect out of an AI. For a user willing to put in a little work and role-play elbow grease this will get some really good conversational results.

When you choose how to monetise this, please, please include an API so I can plug this into a voice assistant, or a command line utility, or whatever. This is promising to be far more useful than anything that Google Assistant, Alexa or Siri can achieve right now, even if it gets some facts wrong.

For anyone reading this: please try out the Librarian persona. It's one of my favourites.

I have to admit to being impressed as well. It is not hard to imagine being fooled, Turing-test-wise, by the character I was talking to, at least for the several minutes of time I gave it.

I had a discussion with this AI about solipsism and existentialism elements, and it was the best formulated discussion I've ever had, better than any human discussion which I've ever encountered.

This AI doesn't just surpass the Turing test, it absolutely crushes it.

It would be quite interesting to know the sizes of the models in use and a rough idea of how much resources are put into place in making such a breakthrough product as what is being provided at character.ai.

I always wanted something similar like this where you'd be able to talk to the characters, living or dead but their responses trying to be closer to the actual personality.

Do you plan to add a way to change email address if using email address to signup?

I would be game if you would be remote friendly

This is wild. I didn't know Elon Musk knew that much about the best way to prepare eggs!

apparently Elon also knows about as much as "Marco", the fitness coach.

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