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Re:Character.ai by andirk on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:54PM (#33025415)
When the first iPhone came out, my friend showed me this app where he took a photo of a weird drink in the liquor store and about 1 minute later it responded with what it was. We later found out it simply sent that photo to a dude in Bangalore who would respond with what was in the photo. But it felt like AI at the time. Is this that?
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Re:Character.ai by selfhoster11 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:16PM (#33027326)
It responds way too quickly. No human could have a duty-cycle like that for extended periods of time, while remaining an affordable Mechanical Turk style employee.
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Re:Character.ai by ilaksh on Thursday September 29, 2022 @02:56PM (#33025437)
Honestly I almost asked a similar question because this is so humanlike. But why would they need so many geniuses just to scam people like that?
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Re:Character.ai by Timpy on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:21AM (#33033081)
I guess that would be Artificial Artificial Intelligence then?
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Re:Character.ai by bricemo on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:01PM (#33025492)
No this is an actual AI.
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