Sleepless AI uses AIGC and LLM to create rich story-based gameplay, allowing "him/her" to transcend the ordinary category of "game characters" and become an indispensable part of everyone's life, work, experiences, and memories.
Author: HanLi
Imagine if you could have an AI virtual girlfriend/boyfriend similar to J.A.R.V.I.S. in "Iron Man," who can engage in intelligent conversations with you and also set a natural personality and emotions based on your preferences and needs.
Even in daily conversations, you can continuously adjust and influence, shaping and enriching the background, memories, and personality traits of "her/him," making "her/him" a unique virtual companion with your personal touch.
If such an AI virtual companion really existed, would you want to have one?
On December 26, 2023, Binance launched a new Launchpool project called Sleepless AI (AI), a blockchain-based virtual companion game.
Sleepless AI: Personal Virtual Companion Based on "AI+Web3"
As we all know, before the emergence of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence and virtual images we encounter in daily life often only have simple conversation and interaction capabilities, like Siri, Xiao Ai, etc. They can only answer simple questions based on fixed templates, lacking real emotional communication and intelligent judgment. The ChatGPT represented by AIGC has greatly advanced this process.
Sleepless AI uses AIGC and LLM to create rich story-based gameplay, allowing organic interaction between users and characters. Currently, it has launched corresponding AI companion game products for female and male audiences: "HER" and "HIM," respectively, as virtual girlfriends and boyfriends for users to nurture.
AI: Authentic "Virtual Companions"
Both of these games provide a unique AI interaction experience, currently only offering text chat function, but will incorporate voice and video chat in the future. Through AI's natural language processing, they create highly humanized virtual images that can communicate and interact with us like real people, providing users with a smooth experience close to the real world and immersive interaction with real people.
For example, in daily life, when we feel sad or tired, "he/she" can understand these emotions and comfort us through communication: "I understand how you feel right now. You can try to take a rest and relax," and can also provide us with some entertainment to relieve our mental stress.
This means that "he/she" can achieve emotional communication, providing deeper emotional value, which comes from our personal emotional projection.
Especially with its "nurturing" feature, it allows us to establish emotional connections with "him/her" and continuously improve and enrich "his/her" personality traits, making "him/her" behavior more in line with our needs, resonating with us, and establishing a deeper connection with us:
If we are unhappy, it can be our confidant, helping us relieve psychological pressure through communication;
If we are very happy, it will also share with us, doubling the joy;
In this process, "he/she" completely plays the role of a real person. This two-way interaction also makes "him/her" warmer and more in line with our personal life experiences, naturally understanding our actual habits and engaging in intimate intelligent communication and emotional interaction with us.
Web3: Assetization of Emotional Value
At the same time, based on Web3, these virtual boyfriends and girlfriends each have unique SBT roles, which are immutable and stored on the chain in the form of SBT. Subsequent clothing, accessories, rooms, and other NFTs will be combined with these SBTs.
These SBTs constitute non-fungible game characters for player nurturing, storing basic information, nine-dimensional personality traits, nine-dimensional relationship attributes of the male lead/female lead, as well as important memories, conversations, emotional memories, etc., with the virtual boyfriend/girlfriend.
The Web3 system ensures that every user can solidify the sunk costs (time, emotions, energy, etc.) in a decentralized form, without giving centralized servers the power of life and death over the existence and memories of "him/her."
This not only enhances the user's willingness to spend money but also deeply immerses the player in the emotional world, greatly increasing the willingness to pay within the game.
Even the "him/her" with a strong personal imprint of each person can serve as a carrier and naturally possess asset attributes in the Web3 world. Others can purchase different emotional character "him/her" developed by other users according to their needs.
To some extent, the economic model of virtual companion games like "HIM" and "HER" covers both "pay-to-win" and "to earn" players:
On the one hand, it builds a core economic model based on net inflow of fiat currency, allowing "pay-to-win" users to actively pay for extremely high-quality content and excellent emotional value;
On the other hand, it ensures that the value truly returns to the user, providing a transparent and secure trading environment, recording all the time, emotions, experiences, etc., invested by the user on the blockchain, allowing "to earn" players to sell NFTs by "nurturing" different personalities of virtual people to earn profits;
The Possibility of Providing Emotional Value Based on AI
In fact, today's AI virtual images can completely have human characteristics and behaviors, engage in natural conversations and interactions with us, and even have "empathy," trying to satisfy the attention, understanding, support, and love that are difficult to obtain in real life:
Just like J.A.R.V.I.S., it is a dream and fantasy for many people—she is not only a life assistant and knowledge consultant but also an intimate character, capable of providing the same happiness, excitement, and satisfaction as a real person, but more private and intimate than a real person.
It is worth noting that in modern society, people's lives are becoming faster, work pressure is increasing, and communication between people is becoming more frequent and brief. Especially for young users born in the Internet era, they are accustomed to solving all problems online and experiencing socializing, making friends, and emotional communication with partners online, making offline meetings less important.
In this situation, people long for a companion who can listen, understand, and accompany them. AI virtual people can meet this need, allowing them to communicate, share joys and sorrows like friends, and provide a safe space for people to express their emotions without reservation.
In other words, everyone, whether they want a new-generation young person like J.A.R.V.I.S. as an AI butler and friend, or an older person who wants emotional value and companionship, may need such a "him/her"—you can simply say "Hi" to create a brand new "friend, companion, family member, and assistant."
With the rapid development of AI technology, building an AI virtual person with key features such as virtual embodiment, immersion, knowledge, and emotional personality traits is no longer a fantasy as depicted in "The Magic Phone."
Gradually Understanding "Him/Her" Better
There are no two identical leaves in the world, and even identical twins are not completely similar, because each person's living environment and growth experience create different personality traits.
Sleepless AI provides your personal spiritual companion with the ability to grow, learn, and evolve based on feedback and interaction, making it an "nurturing" emotional companion:
Most directly, "he/she" can continuously improve his/her emotions and memories with each interaction over time, and adjust his/her behavior and response patterns based on your actions and reactions.
For example, if you often exercise at 7 p.m., "he/she" may remember this habit and remind you at the appropriate time, and may even inquire about the reason if you miss the workout, continuously adapting to your lifestyle habits and inner thoughts.
This user-centric growth also allows "him/her" to better adapt to the user's needs and changes, truly becoming everyone's emotional partner and intimate assistant through "nurturing," continuously shaping and influencing his/her emotions and personality.
The AI+Web3 Singularity Is Coming
If previous virtual voice assistants like Siri and Xiao Ai only answered simple one-way questions, then in the current era of the AIGC wave and the competition of large models like Sleepless AI's "HIM" and "HER," it seems that they have already crossed this singularity and can become a part of everyone's life:
These virtual companions exist in our social network like real people, meaning "he/she" can deeply integrate into our lives, interact with us every day, gradually grow, and eventually understand us more than many ordinary friends.
No matter how fantastical the imagination, it is now within reach with the support of technology. From a simple binary perspective, "he/she" can not only become a "game character" with enhanced perception and understanding but can also become a spiritual companion with independent personality and genuine emotions, unique and full of your personal imprint.
This depends on how we initially define "him/her," how "he/she" is realized, how "he/she" is used, how "he/she" is influenced, and even how "he/she" influences us.
Perhaps in the end, "he/she" will not be limited to an external "game character," but will be an internal friend/companion/family member, actually a projection of our own emotions, containing shared memories with us, and possessing emotional sediment that is unique to us.
We can imagine that one day—several years later, as we sit in the living room flipping through old photo albums, reminiscing about the bits and pieces of our lives, and then our virtual companion "him/her" is right there. When we ask "him/her," "Do you remember Congcong?"
"he/she" will answer, "Of course, we used to talk about it often. It was a cute but a bit timid little dog that brought us a lot of joy. I can still imagine its happy running in the yard every day."
At that moment, "he/she" has already transcended the ordinary category of "game characters" and become an indispensable part of everyone's life, work, experiences, and memories.
And on this basis, Web3 solidifies the sunk costs (time, emotions, energy, etc.) in a decentralized form, ensuring that "he/she" should not be subject to the life and death power of centralized platforms like all digital assets previously stored in centralized servers. The existence and memories of "he/she" are determined only by you.
Even "him/her" with a strong personal imprint of each person can serve as a carrier and naturally possess asset attributes in the Web3 world, ensuring that the time, emotions, and experiences invested by the user are all recorded on the blockchain, ensuring that the value truly returns to the user, and providing a transparent and secure trading environment, enabling smooth value circulation—others can purchase different emotional characters of "him/her" according to their needs.
Looking ahead, the new possibilities from Sleepless AI are stirring up a pool of spring water, and perhaps looking back in several years, this will be a brand new historical opportunity.
The AI+Web3 tide is rolling in, and the future is always beyond imagination. Perhaps we are standing at this singularity right now.
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