I hadn’t known Replika started out with this goal. Interesting.
It is especially pity that his digital twin lived less than his biological original, who died at 32
Not exactly the main point, but I’d probably clock this in terms of number of conversational inputs/outputs (across all users). Which might still imply “living less long”*, but less so than if you’re just looking at wallclock time.
*also obviously an oldschool chatbot doesn’t actually count as “living” in actually meaningful senses. I think modern LLMs might plausibly.
Yes, they can do now a much better version—and hope they will do it internally. But deleting the public version is bad precedent and better to make all personal sideloads opensourced
I hadn’t known Replika started out with this goal. Interesting.
Not exactly the main point, but I’d probably clock this in terms of number of conversational inputs/outputs (across all users). Which might still imply “living less long”*, but less so than if you’re just looking at wallclock time.
*also obviously an oldschool chatbot doesn’t actually count as “living” in actually meaningful senses. I think modern LLMs might plausibly.
Yes, they can do now a much better version—and hope they will do it internally. But deleting the public version is bad precedent and better to make all personal sideloads opensourced
Uh I do think it’s not obviously good (and, in fact, I’d lean bad) to be opensourced for this sort of thing.