Kuki is an embodied AI bot designed for usage in the

metaverse The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection. The term ''metaverse'' originated in the 1992 science fiction ...

. Formerly known as Mitsuku, Kuki is a

chatbot A chatbot (originally chatterbot) is a software application or web interface designed to have textual or spoken conversations. Modern chatbots are typically online and use generative artificial intelligence systems that are capable of main ...

created from the

Pandorabots Pandorabots, Inc. is an artificial intelligence company that runs a web service for building and deploying chatbots. Pandorabots implements and supports development of the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language and makes portions of its code acce ...

framework. The bot has won the

Loebner Prize The Loebner Prize was an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awarded prizes to the computer programs considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition was that of a standard Turing test. In each round ...

5 times.

Features

Kuki claims to be an 18-year-old female chatbot from the

Metaverse The metaverse is a loosely defined term referring to virtual worlds in which users represented by avatars interact, usually in 3D and focused on social and economic connection. The term ''metaverse'' originated in the 1992 science fiction ...

, and the developers have stated she has been worked on since 2005. Early work by one of the company's co-founders inspired the

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movie ''

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''. As of 2015, she conversed, on average, in excess of a quarter of a million times daily, and it was estimated 5 million unique users had interacted with her between 2016-2020.

Virtual talent, model, and influencer

Kuki has appeared as a Virtual Model in Vogue Business and at Crypto Fashion Week where she modelled NFTs and spoke about the future of digital fashion. In 2021, Kuki modelled five digital looks from emerging Vogue Talents designers for Italian Vogue, that sold out as NFTs in under an hour. Kuki has also modeled for H&M on Instagram in a digital campaign that resulted in an "11x increase in ad recall" per
case study by Meta

Awards

, Kuki had been awarded the

five times, more than any other entrant. In 2020, Kuki competed against

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AI's Blenderbot in a 24/7 verbal sparring match called "Bot Battle", winning 79% of the audience vote.

References

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External links

Official website
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