Last month, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of solving challenging problems with step-by-step simulated reasoning. OpenAI says the approach could be crucial to building more capable AI systems in the future.
In the meantime, perhaps a more modest version of this technology could help make AI brides and grooms a little more spontaneous and attractive.
that’s what dippybets a startup that offers “uncensored” AI companions. The company recently launched a feature that allows users to see the reasoning behind their AI characters’ responses.
Dippy runs its own large language model, which is open source that offers optimized role-playing data, which the company says makes it better at improvising when a user steers a conversation in a particular direction.
Akshat Jagga, CEO of Dippy, says that adding an extra layer of simulated “thinking” (using what are known as “thought chain prompts”) can also elicit more interesting and surprising responses. “A lot of people are using it,” says Jagga. “Usually when you talk to an LLM, you get a knee-jerk reaction.”
Jagga adds that the new feature can reveal, for example, when one of your AI characters is being deceptive, something some users apparently enjoy as part of their role-playing. “It’s interesting when you can really read the character’s inner thoughts,” Jagga says. “We have this character who is sweet in the foreground, but manipulative in the background.”
I tried chatting with some of the default Dippy characters, with the PG setting on because they’re too horny otherwise. The feature adds another dimension to the narrative, but the dialogue still strikes me as fairly predictable, resembling something out of a bad romance novel or an exaggerated piece of fan fiction.
A Dippy character, described as “Bully on the outside, warm on the inside,” revealed a soft side behind the gruff exterior when I clicked on the “Read Thought Process” link below each message, but both internal and external dialogues They lacked nuance or surprise and were repetitive. For fun, I also tried giving various characters some simple arithmetic problems, and their thoughts sometimes showed how to break down the puzzle to get the correct answer.
Despite its limitations, Dippy seems to show how popular and addictive AI companions are becoming. Jagga and his co-founder, Angad Arneja, previously co-founded Womboa company that uses AI to create memes including singing photographs. The pair left in 2023 and set out to build an AI-powered office productivity tool, but after experimenting with different personas for their assistant, they became fascinated with the AI company’s potential.