Bored talking to OpenAI’s overly polite chatbot ChatGPT? You’d prefer an AI-powered virtual assistant with a bit more attitude? Then meet Anima’s new Onlybots, non-fungible tokens that can not only be bought and sold, but also possess their own unique set of personality traits engineered to inform both their mood and vernacular.
“Yo, I’m dope cause I can tell jokes and stay totally rad,” said a pink-and-white Onlybot named Dex Cat when asked during a demonstration why people would have more fun talking to it than ChatGPT. Shortly after start-up Anima allowed people to acquire its AR-powered virtual pets called Onlybots — NFTs minted on Ethereum and trading on OpenSea since December — the company has plans to imbue its collection of cute robots with the breadth of knowledge ChatGPT possesses. Except Anima has decided to utilize the tech behind ChaGPT in a way the company hopes Onlybot fans and owners will appreciate.
“Each Onlybot has all of the artificial intelligence that OpenAI has built but it's sort of skewed through a personality,” said Anima cofounder Alex Herrity during an interview. The goal with this new initiative, he said, is to bring the company’s collection of augmented-reality NFTs to life and make them fun to interact with. “This project, while it’s done well as an NFT, people that have latched on to it are not your typical NFT collectors."
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