The AI dooooooom thread

[Sheilbh]

Yeah - all vibe-coded. He's can code (he actually started out as an actor) and works has worked on the tech side of some things for the last 10-15 years but he's not a hard engineer if that makes. He can and does absolutely build things but I think he works with/needs other engineering experience with him.

But also as he said this was a weekend project with his daughter and the real fun - and learning - was in the dialogue with the machine to vibe-code it in a way that I think writing code with his daughter maybe wouldn't have.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

In the realm of AI companions, apparently the US builds AI girlfriends while China builds AI boyfriends.

Here's an article on the topic: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends

Inevitably those ai boys and girls will hook up with each other, leaving their humans in the lurch

[Valmy]

In the realm of AI companions, apparently the US builds AI girlfriends while China builds AI boyfriends.

Here's an article on the topic: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends

Inevitably those ai boys and girls will hook up with each other, leaving their humans in the lurch

So I fooled around on one of those websites last year and made a sexy pulpy female spy to go on spy adventures. I was her handler who only interacted with her via coded messages handing out intel and assignments. I made other characters for her to interact with and put together a plot and...I don't know man. The AI was pretty lame at playing this character. Like I would be waving red flags all over the place "THIS OTHER CHARACTER IS PROBABLY AN ENEMY SPY" and she never did anything interesting like spied on them or broke into their apartments or tried to kill them or anything. Hey maybe you should seduce the handsome son of that corrupt billionaire to get access to incriminating documents? Nah. Very lame and the AIs become pretty boring and predictable fast.

I don't know what I was expecting, I guess I thought maybe it would delve into its deep resources of pulp spy novels and have the character do pulpy spy stuff and I was hopeful it would surprise me.

So the people who find these things compelling companions must be pretty lame.

However it had little problem enabling me to create male characters as well. I could have made a sexy James Bond spy and had him be lame as well.