Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats
Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.
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Shapes, a social chat app that integrates AI characters into real human group conversations, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from AI Capital Partners and AI Grant. Founded in 2022 by Anushk Mittal and Noorie Dhingra, the app has surpassed 400,000 monthly active users and grown sixfold since the […]
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Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a recreation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new "conversations" tool to create AI-powered characters that players can talk and interact with. "Instead of authoring dialogue trees for characters in your islands, conversations transforms an NPC into an AI-powered character capable of unscripted dialogue and interactions with players, like a quest giver or narrator," Epic says. "You define who the character is with simple prompts-how they think, what they know, and how they behave-and then select a voice that matche … Read the full story at The Verge.