GPT chatbots are currently a popular topic, with numerous articles, projects, and libraries appearing in various programming languages. In this article, I will share my thoughts on how a digital personality can be created using GPT-4, which can imitate a human personality in the digital space.
Why GPT-4?
I have attempted to use GPT-3 to create my own assistant, but I encountered a few issues that prevented me from moving forward. Additionally, I am still only on the waiting list for accessing GPT-4. However, experiments with the current version (GPT-3) show that perhaps the new model can handle the necessary cases that allow for its implementation. But currently, it is only a suggestion.
Steps to Creating a Digital Personality
Step 1 - Preparation
First, we need to think about who or what we want to imitate. For example, we may want to imitate a successful and social developer. To achieve this, we need to plan the behavior of this personality and describe the personality's traits. We can write a short text describing the personality and use it as context for GPT-4. It is essential to understand that we want to imitate only external behavior. This model cannot replace a human 😄
Step 2 - Resources
Create a list of resources (websites, messaging apps, etc.) that people with a similar personality typically use (such as Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, Telegram, etc.). These resources will be used for getting and sending information.
Step 3 - Exchange of Information
We need to implement code for parsing text, audio, and video content, and generating responses based on this content. To help with parsing, we can use some APIs from OpenAI and other platforms with the necessary functionality.
Step 4 - First Version
To run the personality, we need to implement periodic checking of resources and reacting to events. At this step, our model can only provide reactions to events. For example, we can implement:
- Checking news sites and public posts on Facebook if the information is interesting for our personality (we can directly ask GPT-4 with the provided context).
- Checking friends' posts and reacting to them (likes, answers).
- Answering direct messages.
- Adding new friends using Facebook's recommendation.
Step 5 - Memory
We can improve the system by adding databases to do semantic searches. This will allow us to imitate memory. When we receive new messages, we can ask GPT-4 to generate commands for searching content. For example, if we receive a message about Michael's trip that was discussed a few months ago, we cannot provide all messages for this period to the model. We can only provide a dossier about the person with whom we correspond and the opinion of the model with the context about the personality. But by adding searching, the code can find content with this information, provide it to the model, and ask it to generate an answer.
Step 6 - Imitating Learning Something New
Implement support for analyzing and adding new resources, such as a new social network that our digital personality encounters. In this case, it can register and start publishing content on this new platform. This step will ensure that our digital personality stays up-to-date with the latest trends and can engage with users on various platforms.
Conclusion
By following the steps outlined in this article, we can try to create a bot that imitates a human personality in the digital space. However, it is essential to keep in mind that this is just imitation, and the model won't learn anything.