Startup Portola is treating its AI companions like characters in a novel, complete with lore, emotions, and personal lives. The experiment raises the question: Can fiction make better AI companions? http://f-st.co/0eM9lHp
There is such a thing as a stupid question
Of course it can! I mean, we are training models with human language and asking them to behave as humans. If you want a machine to behave like a human, it is only logic that you need a human to give it a sort of “personality” or “character” or “moral compass” to act as a filter, to make sense of all the data that it has ingested. We come full circle in my opinion.
I help people make better stories from the information they have so they can increase their available opportunities. This way, even when they decrease their available options, they can pivot. I call this service analytics but it goes by many names and creeds, including science fiction novelist apparently. When the future has t happened yet, it’s all science fiction.