Rizwan Virk

So what people are doing is they're hooking up like an LLM engine, like ChatGPT to an avatar.

And they're bringing the two together.

I don't know if you ever saw the film Her.

Yeah, great film.

Yeah, that's right.

And so it turns out the guy who wrote the film and directed it, Spike Jonze, he had seen the Alice chatbot back in the 2000s.

And he came out with this film in 2013.

And then when OpenAI released one of their recent versions of ChatGPT,

They tried to hire Scarlett Johansson to get her voice, but they used the movie Her as kind of a way to think about how you could have a virtual girlfriend or boyfriend.

And now there are companies that specialize in virtual girlfriends, boyfriends.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, it does seem sad in its way, but they've been around for a while now.

There's a company called Replica, for example, that has been around since, I don't know, 2015, 16.

And of course, people are now using ChatGPT and variations of it, and there's Character.ai.

There were a whole bunch of these

companies that were just specializing in this.

But getting back to your question, which was, would the AI, the NPC not know that it's an NPC?

And so we're getting closer.

So if you remember, there was a fourth Matrix movie that came out in 2021.

Yeah.