Chats with AI

A lazy Sunday project, here is a meandering log of my interactions with an intelligent chat application created on Character.AI which simulates the experience of a WWI adventure game. We select chat bot personalities to engage from a visual catalog. They range from games to talking with historical figures like Freud or Socrates or contemporary personalities like Elon Musk and Tony Stark. They include psychologists, motivation and relationship coaches, anime and pokemon characters, language tutors, etc. Users can also build their own personalized chat bots with custom prompts and example text to tilt the AI different directions. The underlying technology is based on large language models, (LLMs) which are spreading across the web like wildfire. LLMs generate text that rivals humans for many tasks and can carry on conversations while remembering the context of the discussion. This tech is still in its infancy.