most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate...
As far as I’m aware, despite being worked on by a reddit admin, it never had any real official use.
There used to be an IRC bot called megahal that would take the message data you had provided it and try to determine kind of a grammar to it and recombine it into hopefully sensical new phrases and further some could use the data they had to try to figure out which phrases it should use to respond to other phrases. Subreddit simulator bots were based on the same underlying concept.
People have been playing with the idea for a super long time, and the programming is usually not hugely complex and it’s pretty well documented, probably a weekend project for an experienced programmer to integrate one with something. They’re probably the precursor to the LLMs we have now, even if we’re basically comparing a calculator from the 80s to a modern smartphone. They manage to figure things out like 5% of the time, but watching them try can be endlessly entertaining and universally endearing, but they’re almost always completely useless.
As far as I’m aware, despite being worked on by a reddit admin, it never had any real official use.
There used to be an IRC bot called megahal that would take the message data you had provided it and try to determine kind of a grammar to it and recombine it into hopefully sensical new phrases and further some could use the data they had to try to figure out which phrases it should use to respond to other phrases. Subreddit simulator bots were based on the same underlying concept.
People have been playing with the idea for a super long time, and the programming is usually not hugely complex and it’s pretty well documented, probably a weekend project for an experienced programmer to integrate one with something. They’re probably the precursor to the LLMs we have now, even if we’re basically comparing a calculator from the 80s to a modern smartphone. They manage to figure things out like 5% of the time, but watching them try can be endlessly entertaining and universally endearing, but they’re almost always completely useless.