Human or Not: Launch Story From Idea Inception to 80k
I always thought that at some point in the future AI chatbots would be so fluent as to be indistinguishable from humans.
In my previous dating project, we used AI bots to greet new users and create an artificial first contact for them, so they wouldn’t feel too lonely and start learning the interface. The bots were very basic and not very convincing. That was around 2008.
With the release of Chat GPT 4 by Open AI in 2023, I realized that the time has come for human-like AI bots.
As a side project and for learning purposes, I decided to create a site similar to Chatroulette but with AI as conversation partners.
This way, I could practice how LLMs work, how to do fine-tuning, and what’s possible now and in the future.
While brainstorming the idea, I stumbled upon an article by the investment company A16Z It’s Not a Computer, It’s a Companion!
They describe the dawning of the whole new big niche: AI companions.
