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Character.ai's Noam Shazeer: "Replacing Google - and your mom"

The Times Tech Podcast

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What Is the Most Popular Character Right Now?

You can create a character which really can be as simple as just writing a greeting. And then all of a sudden you're chatting with Joe Biden and that Biden is basically, I would guess trained on all of Biden's public utterances or whatever. People are using this as like therapy and emotional support. We get all kinds of emails, things like, I have no friends, I was depressed. This makes me feel good. Like it like it really. But we haven't been focusing on use cases. We just launched something. So that's what I think is interesting. You put it out there. Yeah. And then you're like, well, let's see what happens. Exactly

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