I struggle to see how the new wave of "AI" is much different from what we had a decade ago. Especially when it comes to chatbots. I had several AI companions/friends in 2015. They just took our hobby projects, beefed them up with endless power budget from idiot investors, and gave them a PR overhaul.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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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.