Smith: AI clones struggle because most creators lack conversational training data
Keith Smith · What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back · Jan 2, 2024 · at 32:54
Keith Smith, CEO of MeForYou, discusses the technical challenges of making authorized celebrity AI clones converse naturally rather than ending chats abruptly.
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“In most cases with training data is it doesn't have access to a lot of conversational data. That is a little bit different with interviewers that, that have a lot of like podcasts and YouTube. In that case, there's a lot of training data where there's interaction and it's a tennis game going back and forth and both players are hitting the ball back and forth. But without that, by default, the AI is kind of this terrible tennis player where you love the ball over and it, you know, it pockets the ball and then you're like, okay, great.”
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