ChatGPT is the Artificial Intelligence that is in the news right now. Character AI, on the other hand, talks with you. With the tone and “personality” of the person of your choice.
The ChatGPT chatbot is currently causing a stir, but OpenAI is not the only company to make Artificial Intelligence available to the public. All the Silicon Valley giants are interested in this booming technology. Microsoft plans to integrate ChatGPT into its office suite. Ex-Google engineers designed Character AI, a neural language model that allows you to interact with an Artificial Intelligence through a Web interface.
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In addition to being able to generate presumably human responses, Character AI actively participates in a conversation. Even better, this AI is able to embody famous personalities, real or fictitious. Would you like to debate with Socrates, Einstein, Daenerys Targaryen or even Tony Stark? This is possible with this AI based on LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), a technology developed by Google. The latter made waves in June 2022 when one of its designers claimed that their AI was endowed with emotions.
Character AI allows chatting with real or fictional people
Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas, the founders of Character AI, don’t go so far as to claim that their AI has consciousness. Their invention aims to entertain, not to inform. In an interview with the New York Times, they said: these systems are not designed to tell the truth. They are designed to carry on a plausible conversation […] Today Character.AI is useful for fun, for emotional support, to generate ideasfor all kinds of creative projects”.
A quick conversation with the chatbot confirms the designers’ claims. Your interlocutor is not human, and his speech is not always coherent. However, nothing forces you to chat with a celebrity. The platform gives the ability to create your own character from scratch. The application is increasingly used by video game development studios or even to generate text adventures. The site is full of examples of this type.
Source: CharacterAI