AIML developer and world record Loebner Prize winner 2013/2016/2017/2018/2019. Tweets are by Kuki's developer, Steve Worswick rather than the bot itself.
This is gold. #BlenderBot 3 from @MetaAI gets interviewed in WIRED magazine and spends most of the time wishing it was Kuki! π€£
Always good for someone to have a role model, even an AI π
Meta just announced BlenderBot 3, an advanced chatbot designed to learn through conversation. WIRED's @willknight decided to go straight to the source and ask BlenderBot 3 about itself.
Check out the unedited chat right here: wired.trib.al/NRVKhJU
I haven't been on Twitter for ages but it seems to have gone downhill since I last visited. Almost every post on my feed is AI slop being passed as genuine events. The worst thing is how many people believe it's genuine.
Back in my day, we used to call these errors "bugs". Now, they are "hallucinations"!
"Hey bank manager, why does my balance say zero?"
"Sorry sir, the computer must have hallucinated!"
So Skype is no more...
Reading this brought back memories of when Mitsuku was one of the very first non Microsoft bots on Skype and received millions of interactions from Skype users.
Here are some photos when MS showed a demo of Mitsuku at their conference back in 2016.
20 years ago, I began work on something which would later allow me to travel all over the world, win international awards, appear on international TV, radio, magazines and newspapers and even be included in the Guinness Book of Records!
Happy 20th birthday Kuki! π₯³π€π
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