Pi by Inflection AI: A Revolutionary Experience with Personal AI

Since the release of the ChatGPT chatbot by the OpenAI Lab in late 2022, major tech companies and startups have jumped into the race to develop such conversational services. This is how Bard (Google), Bing (Microsoft) and others appeared. Basically, they are designed for searching and issuing the information necessary for the user. Therefore, they are most often used to generate content, solve business problems and everyday issues.

Inflection AI recently unveiled a new Pi chatbot that could well revolutionize AI. Our article is about it. You will learn what Pi is, what its features are and what capabilities it has, what tasks it can be used for and how to do it, and also why personalization is important for artificial intelligence and how new types of chatbots will affect for the development of AI in the future.

An AI chatbot is a sophisticated conversational service developed using advanced ML algorithms and NLP techniques that allow it to intuitively understand human speech and respond as naturally as possible. Learning on gigantic arrays of Internet content has endowed such programs with the ability to generate texts that satisfy user requests. With their help, you can now solve almost any task related to text: from writing emails and social media posts to compiling marketing strategies to promote a brand.

One of the significant advantages of an AI chatbot is its ability for deep, multi-stage interaction with a person. This means that it can be trained to help customers resolve any technical issues with the product by providing them with detailed step-by-step instructions and accompanying them through the process until the issue is resolved. Thanks to this, the burden on technical support services is significantly reduced, and the quality of customer service is improved.

Chatbots with AI can upgrade various platforms (websites, social networks, instant messengers, and virtual assistants). Their implementation takes contact with users to a new level, making it personalized, as well as providing a free, coherent, seamless dialogue in multichannel mode.

Another important advantage of intelligent chatbots is the ability to learn and adapt. During interaction with users, these services may collect and analyze information about them. First, they are interested in the preferences, needs and behaviors of people because this data helps them to increase the relevance and accuracy of answers. Thus, in the future, chatbots will become more personalized and, accordingly, more effective.

It is on personalization that the efforts of the leading developers of chatbots with artificial intelligence are focused today because it will allow them to take them to a new, more advanced level of development and actually create a new form of AI. Large technology companies are already striving to turn a virtual assistant, working in the "question-answer" mode and performing various work or household tasks at the request of the user, into a pleasant companion and even to some extent into a friend. The Pi chatbot is one of the first representatives of such AI. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with it in more detail.

California-based IT company Inflection AI, engaged in research in the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence, was created relatively recently – in 2022. It was founded by Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. On May 2, the company officially announced the launch of its new type of chatbot – Pi (Personal Intelligence). Since its inception, there have been increasing speculations that it is capable of making a real revolution in AI. What is so sensational about it? The fact is that this service is more than just a “smart” chatbot. Pi opens the door to a world where artificial intelligence is not only a tool for increasing human productivity, but also a friend.

Inflection AI aims to change the way we interact with the latest technologies. Unlike other well-known AI services today (Midjourney, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Bard and the like), Pi does not write emails, essays and program code, does not draw pictures. Its mission is to provide the requested information, considering your individual needs, habits and interests. The Pi was built to simply be your friend and support you when you need it. In its face, you get a continuously trained personal AI assistant, business partner, personal trainer and friend at the same time. This is the main purpose of the Pi.

Mustafa Suleyman noted that Pi is a new type of AI with a high level of EQ. This is a virtual companion that can be with you around the clock. It is available when you want to get some information, when you need to speak out tritely, discuss the troubles that have happened to you, or just chat with a friendly, sensitive, attentive and interesting interlocutor.

“For many people, it is significant to be heard. They need a tool to let them know that someone is actually listening to them. The only thing we are afraid of is that people do not start romantic relationships with Pi, – Suleyman emphasized. – Having made friends with our chatbot, the main thing is not to forget that this is AI. Even if very human, but still not alive".

Pi is one of the largest language models in the world. In the process of learning, this chatbot processes billions of lines of text that it extracts from open sources on the Internet. A huge knowledge base allows it to conduct detailed and informative conversations with a person on almost any topic, give answers to a fairly wide range of questions, and morally support in different situations.

The Pi's web interface looks very decent. If you are not too lazy to spend some time speaking with it, you will see that this AI loves to talk. Many other language models simply provide an answer to a given question or a formulated request and wait for the next one from the user. In contrast, Pi shows curiosity, the desire for self-learning and adaptation. This improves it at using natural language. In addition, the Pi can remember 100 moves of a conversation with a user who logged in from different platforms. For example, if you ask Pi in WhatsApp to help you with your birthday plan, it will definitely clarify how the holiday went when you then start talking to it about another topic on Facebook.

Artificial intelligence helps the chatbot keep the dynamics of a personal conversation. The conversation looks so natural and relaxed that the users have a strong feeling that they are communicating with a real friend. Pi's benevolent tone, as well as its ability to recall past conversations and draw conclusions from them, gives the impression of communicating with a living person, which is extremely rare in AI technology. The Pi was designed to be there at the right moment and satisfy the user's need for communication, regardless of its purpose: seeking advice, helping to learn a new hobby, the need to talk out and so on. Separately, it should be noted the sensitivity of this chatbot, which allows you to make communication more personal.

Like its counterparts in artificial intelligence, Pi can be inaccurate or even provide false information. The developers of Inflection AI said that they are doing everything possible to minimize such “hallucinations” of the chatbot, and that they are now creating a new format for teaching it. If there are any problems communicating with the Pi, the user can send a report to the company about it.

The developers of Inflection AI took care of the security and privacy of the users in the process of them interaction with the Pi. User personal data is protected through strong security practices. In addition, Inflection AI is constantly working on creating new forms of AI training in order to 100% eliminate the possibility of malicious or offensive behavior of its chatbot. All this indicates that the company adheres to the principles of ethical development of AI.

If necessary, the users can delete their account. You can do this both on your own – through an application for iPhone or iPad, or by sending a request to Inflection AI's mail, where you must specify the phone number to which the account was registered. In the request, you can also indicate that you want to completely delete not only your account, but also all copies of your conversations with the chatbot – and your wish will be fulfilled.

The Pi is available on a number of platforms today. In addition to the official website heypi.com, which can be accessed through a web browser, it supports:

So far, you can only communicate with it in English, but this will not always be the case. Inflection AI is now actively working to expand its language capabilities.

The Pi is currently free to use. Just keep in mind that it will ask you to add your phone number after every 10 interactions with it to periodically ask how you are doing. If you are tired of constantly refusing a chatbot, just send it a message with the word "Pause" – and it will stop sending you this request.

Chatbot Pi is an attentive and sensitive interlocutor. You can not only chat with it on abstract topics, but also get very real emotional support.

Interacting with it will help you in such situations:

Getting started with the Pi chatbot is easy – you just need to write to it on one of the supported platforms (we listed them above). Ask it a question that interests you, tell it how your day went, or start a simple chat “about everything and about nothing.” After reading your message, the chatbot will respond to you in a polite, welcoming and friendly way. Also, during the conversation, it will ask you questions, maintaining the dynamics of the conversation.

Rules to follow when interacting with a chatbot from Inflection AI:

Erin Griffith, a journalist for the popular daily newspaper The New York Times, decided to test the Pi chatbot to see what it could do. She spent 5 days communicating with it, after which she shared her experience with the public.

To begin with, Erin started a normal conversation, which gradually turned into the mainstream of pressing global problems – climate change and some of the difficulties of reconciling work and personal life, expressing concern about this. The chatbot responses were filled with optimism, regardless of the topic of the conversation. Erin's opinion "fascinated" it. Pi also noted that her questions are "interesting" and "important", and those feelings that she experiences are "understandable" and "absolutely adequate." Sometimes the AI would suggest switching to a more positive topic and recommend looking at each situation from different angles. As a result, Erin was forced to stop trying to provoke it into a conflict – it masterfully avoided a quarrel, getting out in every possible way.

Griffin called Pi a pretty level-headed conversationalist. Discussing issues of high complexity, it showed restraint, and in conversations on any light topics (gardening, cooking or cinema) it gave obvious and understandable advice. In addition, it turned out that this chatbot creates perfectly a daily routine and gives good recommendations for quality rest (for example, doing breathing exercises).

Pi coped with the main task quite adequately: it showed empathy, was able to distract, calm and cheer up. True, already on the second day, Erin began to miss communicating with her real friends and scrolling news feeds on social networks. Pi was extremely polite and sensitive, but at the same time, from the point of view of a journalist, it had problems with creativity, a sense of humor, cynicism and cruelty, characteristic of living people.

The new generation of chatbots with personalized artificial intelligence is proof of the significant progress in the field of generative AI and the revolution in human interaction with technology. Continually improving, they are likely to become a must-have for companies looking to establish meaningful, personalized and effective contact with potential and existing customers.

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, companion bots like the Pi are evidence that technology has moved beyond mere tools. Moreover, they are beginning to blur the line gradually between AI and the interaction of living people.

AI companion bots like the Pi are the first signs of our future, where technology is not only a tool, but also an integral part of the social ecosystem. However, despite this optimistic outlook, it is important to enter this wonderful new world with awareness and caution. Privacy, security and maintaining real contact between people should always be a priority. Allowing AI to penetrate our lives even deeper, we need to make sure that the most stringent measures are taken to protect personal data, and also that these virtual friends do not replace live human relationships in the real world.

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