{"id":168914,"date":"2023-08-02T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/venture-capital-firm-releases-instructions-for-creating-ai-girlfriend"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:31:08","slug":"venture-capital-firm-releases-instructions-for-creating-ai-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/venture-capital-firm-releases-instructions-for-creating-ai-girlfriend","title":{"rendered":"Venture Capital Firm Releases Instructions for Creating AI Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/venture-capital-firm-releases-instructions-for-creating-ai-girlfriend2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another day, another step closer to the normalization of build-your-own AI chatbot partners.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/150383\/you-can-now-build-your-own-ai-girlfriend-heres-how\" class=\"\"><em>Decrypt<\/em><\/a>, top-shelf Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz last week took <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/a16z-infra\/companion-app\" class=\"\">to the developer site GitHub<\/a> to lay out detailed instructions on how to build an AI companion bot from scratch. The VC outfit has a lot of money in various AI ventures, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/03\/23\/characterai-valued-at-1-billion-after-150-million-round-from-a16z.html\" class=\"\">billion-dollar AI companion startup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/ai\/\" class=\"\">Character. AI included<\/a>; now, it seems that the folks at the firm are so enthusiastic about companion bots that they\u2019re encouraging curious developers out there to start DIYing versions for themselves \u2014 and among several other potential use cases, it feels notable that romantic partnership was listed as use case number one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many possible use cases for these companions \u2014 romantic (AI girlfriends \/ boyfriends), friendship, entertainment, coaching, etc,\u201d reads the description, noting elsewhere that the \u201cproject is purely intended to be a developer tutorial and starter stack for those curious on how chatbots are built.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another step closer to the normalization of build-your-own AI chatbot partners. Per Decrypt, top-shelf Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen Horowitz last week took to the developer site GitHub to lay out detailed instructions on how to build an AI companion bot from scratch. The VC outfit has a lot of money in various [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}