{"id":9635,"date":"2023-03-06T17:48:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=9635"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:48:24","slug":"bing-ai-chatbot-celebrity-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=9635","title":{"rendered":"Bing’s AI chatbot can (kinda) impersonate celebrities if you want it to"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you ever wanted to chat with your favorite celebrity, AI can do that now. Well, kind of. <\/p>\n

Bing’s AI chatbot<\/a> has a secret mode where it can impersonate celebrities. We here at Mashable gave it a test run and, while it’s neat, I wouldn’t say you’ll mistake it with a real chat with a celeb. It’s more like AOL’s Smarterchild<\/a> meets a Wikipedia page. But still, it’s kind of cool if that’s your thing. <\/p>\n

At first, it took a little prodding to get the Bing AI to go into celebrity mode, but eventually my colleague Cecily Mauran<\/a> got it to work by simply asking if it could go celebrity mode. When asked to impersonate Morgan Freeman \u2014 since, you know, every impressionist does a Morgan Freeman \u2014 it basically listed off some basic facts about his life. Then it produced a reasonable facsimile of a speech delivered by Freeman, albeit without the gravitas of his voice. Basically, it prattled on about love and being good humans, while saying nothing at all. <\/p>\n

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Next up, we got the chatbot to try to impersonate Jimmy Buffett, my personal favorite celebrity<\/a>. Again, the chatbot introduced his basic biography. And when prompted to write a song about hot wings \u2014 a personal favorite food<\/a> \u2014 the Bing AI chatbot did a decent enough job. It’s no “A Pirate Looks at Forty<\/a>,” but it seems like it could be a passable song. The chorus centers on the phrase “I’m wingin’ it,” which does seem like the care-free spirit Jimmy Buffett would appreciate it. There are the ubiquitous Buffett-esque mentions of a bar and margarita. <\/p>\n

Honestly, it’s a bad-but-good, robot-like version of “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” except it’s about chicken wings. <\/p>\n

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So sure, it’s not like I got to chat with with my hero, but it’s kind of neat nonetheless. It’s not all that different from what happened when I asked ChatGPT to write a song about Buffalo Wild Wings in the style of Jimmy Buffett, to be honest. <\/p>\n

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The chat can impersonate the way celebrities talk \u2014 to an extent. The folks at Bleeping Computer<\/a> have gotten it to speak like former President Donald Trump and The Rock, for instance. It’s not exactly a good<\/em> impression, but you can see what it’s trying to do. <\/p>\n

If you want to fire it up, just as the Bing AI chat to intro celebrity mode, and give it a whirl. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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