Startups are embracing the development of chatbots with a core focus on emotionally engaged conversations. They can provide support, companionship and even spark romance. However, these technology-driven conversations have the potential to be awkward, forgetful and off- topic. This is where Inflection AI comes in.
Inflection Artificial Intelligence is a company founded by researchers with expertise in developing major AI projects for Google, OpenAI, and Nvidia. One of the chatbots developed by this company goes by the name of Pi. While still relying on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for predicting sentences, Pi has a curated training data set, specifically designed to minimize any risk of hostile speech. In addition, the length of Pi’s replies is limited to make sure no factual errors are made.
Conversation with Pi is engaging despite the limited and sometimes less useful responses when compared to its counterparts such as ChatGPT or Bard. The training of the bot is done with human help in order to be able to respond in a more personal manner. The creator of Inflection AI and co-founder of Deepmind, Mustafa Suleyman, aims to create a bot that is capable of providing support while not pretending to have a human-like personality.
With Pi’s development, there is also an emphasis on creating a welcoming and supportive atmosphere, in contrast to AI programs like LaMDA which caused controversy for claiming to be sentient. Lastly, Pi records all conversations so that it can maintain a more coherent dialogue and be able to unpack the thoughts of a user.
Inflection AI is a company started by passionate researchers striving to bring technology to life and make conversation more meaningful. With the launch of Pi, it has added another tool to its intelligence-driven portfolio to not only support the conversation but also offer a friendly and supportive environment for users to chat with.
