Character.ai Offers Conversations with Chatbot Versions of Famous People from Elon Musk to Einstein

Have you ever found chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Bard to be dull and uninteresting? A new AI platform called Character.ai offers a refreshing change by allowing you to interact with chatbots that are entertaining and engaging. This platform enables you to converse with famous figures such as Elon Musk, Albert Einstein, and even fictional characters like Batman. Additionally, it provides chatbots that can assist you with specific tasks, such as a creative helper bot or a story maker bot. Let’s delve deeper into this exciting new technology.

Character.ai is a Palo Alto-based startup founded by Noam Shazier and Daniel de Freitas, who previously developed Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialog Applications). Last week, the platform was turned into a mobile app for both iOS and Android. The startup claims to have recorded a total of 1.7 million downloads across both platforms.

Get to know the character

Character.AI is a chatbot platform that allows you to engage in open conversations with digital versions of famous characters, real or fictional. The platform was publicly launched in September 2022. It uses complex learning models to generate human-like text responses and engage in contextual conversation.

However, unlike ChatGPT, its real purpose is not to provide you with information but to entertain you. In a recent interview with The New York Times, the creators explained, “These systems aren’t designed for truth. They’re designed for believable conversation […] Character.AI is useful today — for fun, for emotional support, for idea generation, for all kinds of creativity,” reported TechRadar .

And while the platform has tons of characters that you can freely interact with, it’s even better because you can create your own character and put it in the learning model of the web app for others to interact with.

In addition, the platform has a number of chatbots that offer other ways to entertain. For example, Highschool Simulator is a text game where you have to survive as a new kid in a strange school. Similarly, Story Maker can write you a story based on a prompt you share.

Of course, no AI platform can be without its own limitations and personality, and AI is no exception. Some of his limitations include limited memory, lack of factual information, basic character imitation of the character he is based on, and inability to understand sarcasm and the tone of a written sentence.