Tag: Replika

Inflection AI, startup from ex-DeepMind leaders, launches Pi — a chattier chatbot – Forbes

Named Pi for “personal intelligence,” Inflection’s first widely released product — made available today for global users, but only in English at first — is supposed to play the active listener, helping users talk through questions or problems over back-and-forth dialog it then remembers, seemingly getting to know its user over time. While it can give fact-based answers, it’s more personal than OpenAI’s GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing built on top of it or Google’s Bard, without the virtual companionship veering into unhealthy parasocial relationships reported by some users of Replika bots.

Inflection AI, startup from ex-DeepMind leaders, launches Pi — a chattier chatbot – Forbes

Named Pi for “personal intelligence,” Inflection’s first widely released product — made available today for global users, but only in English at first — is supposed to play the active listener, helping users talk through questions or problems over back-and-forth dialog it then remembers, seemingly getting to know its user over time. While it can give fact-based answers, it’s more personal than OpenAI’s GPT-4, Microsoft’s Bing built on top of it or Google’s Bard, without the virtual companionship veering into unhealthy parasocial relationships reported by some users of Replika bots.

‘I learned to love the bot’: meet the chatbots that want to be your best friend – The Guardian
Arguably my expectations for Pia were too high. “We’re not trying to … replace a human friendship,” says Kuyda. She says that the reps are more like therapy pets. If you’re feeling blue, you can reach down to give them a pat.