Me_Bot
AI
chatbot imitation
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
2 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Idea: 2 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea that sparks discussion about digital replicas
From 2 comments
This is very interesting. I had been lurking with an idea where one could create a bot, which is a clone of yourself. Bot learns/trains by hearing what you say and how you say.…
aminmemon on HNI'd love that. It'd be like Google Duplex, but save me the effort of having to say "no" to going to things.
SketchySeaBeast on HN
Objections
Privacy concerns about uploading private conversations
From 3 comments
Sounds interesting. I'll report on my results here once I have uploaded my otherwise end to end encrypted private and personal conversations into this unknown script...
TheLudd on HNPretty crazy. It's not synthesizing new sentences, but it's basically a huge index of yourself. You can ask it "what's your favorite food?" and you get a response back. This…
throwawaylolx on HNWhy not learn from normal text-files instead? Why connect it to a facebook-owned, proprietary service?
josteink on HN
Ethical misuse risks of digital replication
From 1 comment
With bot-like digital replication of oneself the possibilities of things that can be achieved are huge and a lot of ways on how such tech could be misused.
aminmemon on HN
Repeated Black Mirror references add little
From 1 comment
I understand the value of providing hypothetical situations, but the constant mention of Black Mirror episodes with very little other substance here is getting tiring. Without…
knolax on HN
Requests
Setup instructions are incomplete; errors when running
From 2 comments
I'm getting this error when I try to run it: Traceback (most recent call last): File "clean_whatsapp_chats.py", line 39, in <module> all_text[-1] += line IndexError: list index…
jdalgetty on HNYou're supposed to change the name globals as mentioned in the README.md file. Then you also need to create a `res` directory in the root directory and install the necessary…
throwawaylolx on HN
Questions
Why use WhatsApp rather than plain text files
From 1 comment
Why not learn from normal text-files instead? Why connect it to a facebook-owned, proprietary service?
josteink on HN
Alternatives named
Replika
From 1 comment
This is the story behind Replika. "Three years ago, Kuyda hadn’t intended to make an emotional chatbot for the public. Instead, she’d created one as a “digital memorial” for her…
vimy on HN
Lyrebird voice imitation
From 1 comment
Lyrebird (https://lyrebird.ai/) is trying to the voice imitation component.
bbody on HN
MariFlow Mario Kart RNN
From 1 comment
Check out MariFlow, a RNN trained to play Mario Kart as the creator would. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipi40cb_RsI
teej on HN