{"id":173978,"date":"2023-10-11T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/character-ais-200-million-bet-that-chatbots-are-the-future-of-entertainment"},"modified":"2023-10-11T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T21:26:33","slug":"character-ais-200-million-bet-that-chatbots-are-the-future-of-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/character-ais-200-million-bet-that-chatbots-are-the-future-of-entertainment","title":{"rendered":"Character.AI\u2019s $200 Million Bet That Chatbots Are The Future Of Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/character-ais-200-million-bet-that-chatbots-are-the-future-of-entertainment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inside Character. AI\u2019s disheveled Palo Alto, California headquarters, employees at first appear to be hard at work, glued to their computer monitors. But rather than coding, many of them are engrossed in lively group chats with their colleagues and the AI chatbot characters that Character has become known for. Now, thanks to a new group chat function the startup launched Wednesday, they were chatting with work friends along with bots that anyone can build to create the illusion that you\u2019re actually talking to the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte, Tony Stark or Lucifer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe feature was good enough that people stopped working sometimes to use it,\u201d cofounder Daniel De Freitas told Forbes. De Freitas,\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The unicorn AI startup is bringing bots that make it sound like you\u2019re talking to well known people like Taylor Swift into interactions with friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Character. AI\u2019s disheveled Palo Alto, California headquarters, employees at first appear to be hard at work, glued to their computer monitors. But rather than coding, many of them are engrossed in lively group chats with their colleagues and the AI chatbot characters that Character has become known for. Now, thanks to a new group [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173978","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}