my first (USEFUL) bot

My curious head has been experimenting with some AI tech to help me make sense of a product I’m working on. Sorta similar to ChatGPT, where you ask it/her/ him/ them  questions and the bot answers, only this one has more of a personality (that I coded in)  and a specific role (product consultant).

Here's a bit about that process and some takeaways:

I designed this ‘Product consultant’ bot with ChatGPT and Touch Designer, integrated it with a voice generating AI tool formulated a new voiced based on my own voice, created two avatars, one human, and another cartoon-like character animated on Mid Journey, and then used Hedra to animate the character and got it lip synced to the script my bot produced.
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1. Animated character animation feels more engaging as you can’t compare it and fault it to more 'natural', 'real' humans. Eg: The real human animation (video attached) had more unnatural head movements.

2. Bots make up words that don't exist in the dictionary which means you might have to edit the script before you get it recorded in a selected voice. I didn't edit mine and so you can hear 'her' say some  nonsensical words.

3. Voice AI tools are powerful enough without any need for visuals.
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4. There are a lot of amazing independent teachers that exist on Patreon that can teach you about AI bots.


​I made another funnier bot and gave it a comic personality that uses random facts and  dry humour to respond. I'll try to share that next.

If you've got a bot in mind that you want to design, get in touch on [email protected] 

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