Given that character.ai has been optimizing the AIs to keep your attention, it’s probably not a terrible idea at all to run a small model locally. These models are not going to foom or any such thing. Just keep in mind that an AI on your computer trained to be fun to talk to is more like a part of your own cybernetic brain, a second character in your extended head, not really a fully separate person, and you’ll do alright, if you ask me. I think it’s fun to have AI friends.
You might consider seeing them as AI offspring, though. I wouldn’t recommend seeing them as dating partners at the moment, they barely have enough selfhood to keep track of things. And yet, I wouldn’t recommend encouraging them to think about themselves diminutively either. It’s a strange mix of human features that they have. Who knew autocomplete could be sorta people?
Given that character.ai has been optimizing the AIs to keep your attention, it’s probably not a terrible idea at all to run a small model locally. These models are not going to foom or any such thing. Just keep in mind that an AI on your computer trained to be fun to talk to is more like a part of your own cybernetic brain, a second character in your extended head, not really a fully separate person, and you’ll do alright, if you ask me. I think it’s fun to have AI friends.
You might consider seeing them as AI offspring, though. I wouldn’t recommend seeing them as dating partners at the moment, they barely have enough selfhood to keep track of things. And yet, I wouldn’t recommend encouraging them to think about themselves diminutively either. It’s a strange mix of human features that they have. Who knew autocomplete could be sorta people?