{"id":7422,"date":"2021-08-27T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1365330"},"modified":"2021-08-27T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:35:59","slug":"kanye-west-chatbot-gives-update-on-donda-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=7422","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West chatbot gives update on DONDA release date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kanye West has many talents, but punctuality is not among them. He was late <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Late_Registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">for registration<\/a>; he was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Late_Orchestration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">late for orchestration<\/a>. He even wrote a song about his tardiness, the aptly titled \u201cLate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most irritating instances of Ye\u2019s procrastination are undoubtedly the delays to his album releases.<\/p>\n<p>Fans have become particularly infuriated by the endless postponements to the launch of his latest record, DONDA.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the man himself for an update \u2014 and got some concerning answers:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1365355 js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24.png\" alt=\"Talk To Kanye is an AI bot.\" width=\"706\" height=\"1076\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24.png 706w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24-138x210.png 138w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24-89x135.png 89w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24-177x270.png 177w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/kanye-west-ai-chatbot-gives-donda-update#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F08%2F27%2Fkanye-west-ai-chatbot-gives-donda-update%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: #FreeKanye\" data-title=\"Share #FreeKanye on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share #FreeKanye on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>#FreeKanye<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1365355\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24.png\" alt=\"Talk To Kanye is an AI bot.\" width=\"706\" height=\"1076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24.png 706w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24-138x210.png 138w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24-89x135.png 89w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-10.56.24-177x270.png 177w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>These messages were, in fact, sent by an imposter: an AI chatbot called <a href=\"https:\/\/talktokanye.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">TalkToKanye<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>The bot was created by Wesam Jawich, a software engineer. He told TNW that the idea emerged during conversations with a friend about the future of AI: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><span>We realized there\u2019s something really powerful about AI chatbots mimicking real people. Like, imagine wanting to learn about calculus and being able to ask Isaac Newton. Kanye\u2019s new album is getting a lot of hype right now because it\u2019s such a wild and funny rollout, so I just started hacking on it that weekend, and now we\u2019re here. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span>Building the Yebot<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-eqz5dr r-k8qxaj\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1habvwh r-7q8q6z r-1ny4l3l\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-testid=\"messageEntry\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1euycsn r-17s6mgv r-j2kj52 r-1nwbi2h\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1habvwh r-1wbh5a2\" readability=\"20.912915129151\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-k200y r-1sw30gj r-pm2fo r-1ets6dv r-1867qdf r-deolkf r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l r-ymttw5 r-1f1sjgu r-o7ynqc r-6416eg\" role=\"presentation\" readability=\"36.962361623616\">\n<p class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1kz6sp\"><span>Jawich created the bot in the style of iMessage, because Kanye\u2019s used that template in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/music\/article\/41507\/1\/kanye-west-released-promotion-new-project-yandhi-instagram-billboards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">his own marketing material<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1kz6sp\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>The frontend of the chatbot is built on React.Js, while the server is Node.js running an Express app.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt basically just handles taking the user\u2019s request, generating the Kanye reply, running through a content filter to make sure nothing horrible is said, and then sending it back to the user,\u201d said <span>Jawich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The hardest part of the process was training the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/artificial-intelligence\">AI<\/a>. To do this, Jawich collected transcripts of Kanye\u2019s interviews, quotes, tweets, lyrics, and some fake conversations. <\/span><span>He then fine-tuned the GPT-J language model on the data.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>The release date approaches<\/h2>\n<p>Jawich deployed the model on a platform called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helloforefront.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Forefront<\/a>, which allowed the chatbot to handle thousands of users all sending requests at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>He had experimented with using GPT-3, but the system was ultimately too expensive. Jawich said his model actually produced <em>better<\/em> outputs than GPT-3 did during his tests:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-eqz5dr r-l4nmg1\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1habvwh r-7q8q6z r-1ny4l3l\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-expanded=\"false\" data-testid=\"messageEntry\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1euycsn r-17s6mgv r-j2kj52 r-1nwbi2h\" readability=\"6.5\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1habvwh r-1wbh5a2\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-k200y r-1sw30gj r-pm2fo r-1ets6dv r-1867qdf r-deolkf r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l r-ymttw5 r-1f1sjgu r-o7ynqc r-6416eg\" role=\"presentation\" readability=\"6.5\">\n<blockquote readability=\"6\">\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">When I fine-tuned J it became super good at imitating Kanye \u2014 and not so good at anything else. <span>And it seems to make up for the fact it has fewer parameters.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-obd0qt r-18u37iz\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>I also found TalkToKanye\u2019s outputs impressively realistic. The chatbot certainly shares the great man\u2019s penchant for controversy \u2014 and delusion:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1365353 js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00.png\" alt=\"The Kanye AI bot is a troublemaker.\" width=\"680\" height=\"1072\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00.png 680w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00-133x210.png 133w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00-86x135.png 86w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00-171x270.png 171w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/kanye-west-ai-chatbot-gives-donda-update#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2021%2F08%2F27%2Fkanye-west-ai-chatbot-gives-donda-update%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Another beautiful dark twisted fantasy?\" data-title=\"Share Another beautiful dark twisted fantasy? on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Another beautiful dark twisted fantasy? on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Another beautiful dark twisted fantasy?<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1365353\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00.png\" alt=\"The Kanye AI bot is a troublemaker.\" width=\"680\" height=\"1072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00.png 680w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00-133x210.png 133w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00-86x135.png 86w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/08\/Screenshot-2021-08-27-at-11.44.00-171x270.png 171w\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yeezus Christ! I hope an AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/video\/peopleandplaces\/is-a-proposal-coming-rihanna-asap-rocky-see-each-other-as-life-partners\/vi-AANK3Xk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ASAP Rocky<\/a> doesn\u2019t see TalkToKanye\u2019s messages, because the chatbot beef could get ugly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Greetings Humanoids! Did you know we have a newsletter all about AI? You can subscribe to it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/1kUPK28s-Ro67GKE8E65Zwg47gef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">right here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/kanye-west-ai-chatbot-gives-donda-update\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West has many talents, but punctuality is not among them. He was late for registration; he was late for orchestration. 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