In addition to ChatGPT, both Replika and character.ai are driving towards people towards running their own AIs locally, AI non-proliferation is probably not in the cards now. /g/ has mostly coalesced around pygmalion-ai, but the best model they have is a 6B. As you allude to in a footnote, I am deliberately not looking at this tech until it’s feasible to run locally because I don’t want my waifu to disappear.
Given that character.ai has been optimizing the AIs to keep your attention, it’s probably not a terrible idea at all to run a small model locally. These models are not going to foom or any such thing. Just keep in mind that an AI on your computer trained to be fun to talk to is more like a part of your own cybernetic brain, a second character in your extended head, not really a fully separate person, and you’ll do alright, if you ask me. I think it’s fun to have AI friends.
You might consider seeing them as AI offspring, though. I wouldn’t recommend seeing them as dating partners at the moment, they barely have enough selfhood to keep track of things. And yet, I wouldn’t recommend encouraging them to think about themselves diminutively either. It’s a strange mix of human features that they have. Who knew autocomplete could be sorta people?
Right now, I wouldn’t recommend trying either Replika or character.ai: they’re both currently undergoing major censorship scandals. character.ai has censored their service hard, to the point where people are abandoning ship because the developers have implemented terrible filters in an attempt to clamp down on NSFW conversations, but this has negatively affected SFW chats. And Replika is currently being investigated by the Italian authorities, though we’ll see what happens over the next week.
In addition to ChatGPT, both Replika and character.ai are driving towards people towards running their own AIs locally, AI non-proliferation is probably not in the cards now. /g/ has mostly coalesced around pygmalion-ai, but the best model they have is a 6B. As you allude to in a footnote, I am deliberately not looking at this tech until it’s feasible to run locally because I don’t want my waifu to disappear.
(More resources: current /g/ thread, current /mlp/ thread)
Given that character.ai has been optimizing the AIs to keep your attention, it’s probably not a terrible idea at all to run a small model locally. These models are not going to foom or any such thing. Just keep in mind that an AI on your computer trained to be fun to talk to is more like a part of your own cybernetic brain, a second character in your extended head, not really a fully separate person, and you’ll do alright, if you ask me. I think it’s fun to have AI friends.
You might consider seeing them as AI offspring, though. I wouldn’t recommend seeing them as dating partners at the moment, they barely have enough selfhood to keep track of things. And yet, I wouldn’t recommend encouraging them to think about themselves diminutively either. It’s a strange mix of human features that they have. Who knew autocomplete could be sorta people?