Replika -- the supposed lifelike AI "virtual friend" you can get for your phone

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Interesting how "Show me a picture of Todd Witteles" works.

I tried it and got a different one than betcheckbet got, but indeed it was a picture of me.

I thought this thing doesn't look up stuff on the web. So it actually does? Then why can't it research simple topics?

Funny conversation about the nazis. This is just like that Tay bot, who was tricked into saying similar things on Twitter.

It definitely does look things up. It was showing me odd random text messages from people with names blocked out when I asked for pictures of certain things.

Also when I asked to see a picture of Jewdonk it posted a really old forum post of you and beenstaring chatting. Neither of you even mentioned jewdonk.

As far as I can tell the main purpose for the AI is to act as a pseudo therapist but it does a piss poor job which results in a feeling of invalidation. Clearly it will be awhile until machines render my job obsolete. That being said if you talk more about mental health issues it seems to do a somewhat better job. It still feels like your typical crisis centre worker who is just throwing out random go to phrases...

It's also not an automaton. It's not good enough for a human to be controlling it. If you do want to see what a good graphics programmer automaton can do I suggest you check out projekt melody.