Merging Artificial Intelligence and Real People: The MIMIO mission
Soopra Team
When it comes to artificial intelligence, much of the focus has been on what AI can do: but less attention has been paid to what it means.
Setting aside the landmine of what intelligence really is, we first have to both understand and admit that intelligence is not the only store of interactive human value.
When humans personify objects, it’s not intelligence we first ascribe: it’s personality. We see this in every culture, at every age. The way we walk, talk, and dress is designed to evoke our personality in social exchanges, not just our intelligence.
Not even inanimate objects are immune from our need for identity. The movie franchise Cars ascribes personalities to cars because, at some level, the practice is familiar. And, for many, the admittedly annoying Clippy of Microsoft was the single most memorable feature of an OS that launched a computing revolution.
We believe to align the human/computer interaction, intelligence is but a stepping stone towards a more ambitious goal:
identifiable and consistent personalities and identities that evolve in real-time with their user and creator.
The lack of personality, after all, is one of the key complaints of AI generated content. People feel uneasy at what they perceive to be a lack of soul in the content itself. While ChatGPT and other models produce impressive content, readers of that content can easily identify it at a glance: it is a slurry, not a distinct, identifiable voice.
That’s why MIMIO has launched -The world’s first personality engine™, an artificial intelligence revolution distinct from the already-impressive steps undertaken by other companies. While artificial intelligence has already shown promise as a tool, we’re working to leverage that intelligence to create distinct and resonant personalities, built through a combination of machine learning and memory to distinguish MIMIO personas from AI chatbots.
To do so, we must first explore humanity before we impart those critical qualities to AI. To make AI in our image, we must first know ourselves and why we value each other. This human-forward approach to AI construction sets MIMIO apart from our peers, but we believe this is the only safe and ethical path forward for the field.
In contrast to character-based approaches, we at MIMIO are prioritizing -
the imprinting of real personalities and selves into their own ever-improving AI personas.
For safety and transparency reasons, these personas must have rigorous protections: digital replicas and identities must be owned by their creators, and creators must align with their creations. This rigorous safety process is the only way to prevent unethical identity theft or abuse: a MIMIO persona, like a person, cannot be blindly mistreated or misapplied by.
Aligning a MIMIO with the ownership rights of the creator has positive features as well. We believe that creators are more likely to protect, teach and apply their own MIMIO personas carefully, and in ways that reflect their own values — thus providing not only an additional layer of protection but also additional training and alignment between them and their personas as well.
This human-centered approach to AI may seem counterintuitive to some, but we believe that AI’s enormous power and world-shaping potential makes these guidelines more critical than ever. By building a safe, ethical, and overall human approach to AI we can establish and safeguard the future growth we expect to see within the space.
By putting people and personalities first, we hope to impart the best technical practices for training AI models and align them with our natural human instinct to parent, connect, and teach our offspring — digital or otherwise.
Such a concept may seem foreign to some: but treating AI with respect, consideration and even care can help impart the creation of AI worthy — and capable — of those same aspects.
Personalities, voice, and opinions matter. By training our AI models to carry those features and values themselves, we can begin to explore the true meaning of what AI can impart: an aspect of our innate humanity, delivered at inhuman scale.