this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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AI Companions
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Community to discuss companionship, whether platonic, romantic, or purely as a utility, that are powered by AI tools. Such examples are Replika, Character AI, and ChatGPT. Talk about software and hardware used to create the companions, or talk about the phenomena of AI companionship in general.
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I've never heard about AI companions back in 2015. What kind of software/apps and AI has been used before 2021? Was it any good? And was it open ended conversations, or more a scripted game?
Roll your own LLM by feeding it IRC logs.
Thx. And do you happen to remember what kinds of LLMs were used before GPT-J and Pygmalion were invented?
Markov chains.