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What is Character AI: Everything you should know

By Revel ChengJune 29, 2024No Comments4 Mins Read
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  • Character AI is an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to interact with and engage in conversations with virtual characters from various fields.
  • Users can detail the character’s personality, background, likes, dislikes and more, crafting it to be as intricate as they wish.

Character AI is an innovative platform providing a unique AI chatbot experience. Drawing on a wide selection of ChatGPT-style bots, users can interact with AI personas mimicking their favorite characters, historical figures, or entirely novel entities. From Einstein to Elon Musk, users can seek advice, conduct research, or engage in amusing exchanges. A standout feature of Character.AI is the user’s ability to create their own chatbot, offering personalised, one-on-one interactions, or sharing the AI persona for others to converse with.

What is Character AI?

Character AI is an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to interact with virtual characters from various fields with virtual characters from various fields, such as popular fiction, gaming, and entertainment. It delivers instantaneous and customised responses to text messages, giving users the feeling of interacting with their favorite characters in real life.

Character AI also allows users to create and train their characters. It currently has millions of user-created characters, ranging from fictional characters like Iron Man and Wonder Woman to historical figures like Genghis Khan and Sun Tzu. The platform also has a ton of nifty utility chatbots. Decision Helper, Brainstormer, and Trip Planner are a few of the many tools you can use.

Character AI is free to use. However, it has a Plus plan with benefits such as priority access, faster response times, early access to new features, access to the Character AI Plus community, and more. The Plus plan costs $9.99 every month.

Also read: CharacterAI Unveils Group Chats Feature

Also read: Chinese AI chatbot Kimi handles 2 million characters, up from 200k

What are the features of Character AI?

Character AI is a dynamic chatbot web application with a quick and advanced creation feature for character building. In three steps, users can swiftly create their characters with personalised names, greetings, visibility, and avatars. Here are some of the features of Character AI:

  • Advanced customisation options: For a deeper customisation, the advanced creation option allows modifications of character’s personality, responses, language, voice, appearance, and animations.
  • Converse with iconic personalities: A unique feature of Character AI is its ability to provide a diverse roster of famous personalities like Elon Musk and Pikachu for engaging chat sessions.
  • Unfettered access and user verification: While it offers a trial without sign-up, full feature access and enhanced experience are granted upon signing up and email verification.

Overall, Character AI delivers an immersive chatbot experience through its comprehensive character customisation and a broad selection of personalities.

How does Character AI work?

Character AI is a cutting-edge technology that enables users to create personalised AI characters. Users can detail the character’s personality, background, likes, dislikes and more, crafting it to be as intricate as they wish.

1. Technology: Neural network training

Once created, the AI character is trained using powerful ML algorithms and language models, including GPT-3 or GPT-4. The character is trained based on the data provided, facilitating alignment with its predefined traits and background.

2. User interaction and evolution

Character AI offers a text-based interaction platform for users and their AI characters. As conversations progress, the AI character learns and evolves, becoming more proficient at emulating the prescribed personality and behaviors.

3. Enhanced capabilities: multimedia and application integration

Beyond text, Character AI integrates other media like images and videos, enhancing the interaction experience. It is also designed to be compatible with various platforms and applications, broadening AI character usage beyond the Character AI website.

AI chatbot Character AI ChatGPT
Revel Cheng

Revel Cheng is an intern news reporter at Blue Tech Wave specialising in Fintech and Blockchain. She graduated from Nanning Normal University. Send tips to r.cheng@btw.media.

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