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| The new ChatGPT competitor lets you chat with anyone life or death |
The proliferation of artificial intelligence applications that have appeared on the Internet in recent months has fueled a controversy that does not seem likely to end anytime soon. After apps like ChatGPT became popular, people started asking tough questions about how, when and why we should turn to bots for our companies...or to get answers to our questions.
Chatbots in particular are proof that artificial intelligence can reach new interesting and controversial levels, and the latest creation of these bots to hit the headlines is the tool (Character.AI) that lets you chat with digital versions of almost anyone, living or dead. , real or imagined.
Similar to the ChatGPT bot, Character.AI, developed by former Google researchers Daniel de Freitas and Noam Shazier, extracts information from articles, news reports, books, and other digital sources to provide plausible responses from the person or character of its choice. user.
Unlike ChatGPT, Character.AI is focused on entertainment, particularly because of the disclaimer on their website: "Everything the characters say is made up."
"These systems were not designed to be real," the tool's creators said in a recent interview with The New York Times. It is designed for smart conversations. Personal. Artificial intelligence is useful today for entertainment, emotional support, thinking, and creativity of all kinds.”
Character.AI also differs from OpenAI in that it does not aim to be the search engine of choice for users, warns The New York Times: “Companies, including Character.AI, trust the public learns to accept its flaws. chat programs and create a healthy mistrust of everything you say.”
It's also worth noting that no matter who you talk to about Character.AI, the answers are written in plain English.
“If you read something that [philosopher Karl] Kautsky did in the 19th century, the artificial intelligence (Character.AI) that you are working on can somehow translate his ideas into modern English.”
The technology developed by Character.AI is believed to have the advantage of adding value to reality, especially because it provides an easy way to access complex theories and philosophies, particularly those formulated by scientists centuries ago.
Moreover, Character.AI appears to be a completely new innovation with a different focus from ChatGPT and similar systems developed by other tech giants such as Google and Meta.
As for the moral ramifications of chatting with real fictional people, living or dead? It doesn't look like the questions artificial intelligence is going to go away anytime soon.