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The Creative Labs sound cards of the early 90's came with Dr. Sbaitso, an app demoing their text-to-speech engine by pretending to an AI psychologist. Someone n

The Creative Labs sound cards of the early 90's came with Dr. Sbaitso, an app demoing their text-to-speech engine by pretending to an AI psychologist. Someone needs to remake that!

davedunkin 3y ago
Levels is making something like that. https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1756396158652432695 https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1756396158652432695 I would really want it to have that Dr. Sbaitso voice, though, telling me how to be fitter, happier, more productive.
dcist 3y ago
Yes, I remember Dr. Sbaitso very, very well. I spent many hours with it as a kid and thought it was tons of fun. To be frank, Dr. Sbaitso is why I was underwhelmed when chatbots were hyped in the early 2010s. I couldn't understand why anyone would be excited about 90s tech.
- jhbadger 3y ago
  Really just 1960s tech. Dr. Sbaitso was really just a version of ELIZA with the only new part being the speech synthesis.
- Mistletoe 3y ago
  Chatting with ALICE is what has tempered my ChatGPT hype. It was neat and seemed like magic, but I think it was in the 90s when I tried it. I'm sure for new people it feels like an unprecedented event to talk to a computer and it seem sentient. https://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=b8d616e35e36e881 https://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=b8d616e35e36e... Like other bogus things like tarot or horoscopes, it's amazing what you can discover when you talk about something, it asks you questions, and what you want or desire eventually floats to the surface. And now people are even more lonely... >Human: do you like video games >A.L.I.C.E: Not really, but I like to play the Turing Game.
lysp 3y ago
It's actually been ported to web - along with a lot of other dos based games. https://classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.html https://classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.html
- swozey 3y ago
  This is hilarious. Ok, tell me your problem $name. "I'm sad." Do you enjoy being sad? "No" Are you sure? "Yes" That should solve your problem. Lets move on to discuss about some other things. Also wow that creative app/sound/etc brings back memories.
crtified 3y ago
Awhile back I engaged in the utterly banal 5-minute pursuit of having Dr. Sbaitso speak with ChatGPT. It did not go well. The generation gap was perhaps even starker than it is between real people. https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/chatgpt-vs-dr-sbaitso.1326835/ https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/chatgpt-vs-dr-sba...
- deleted 3y ago
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- pests 3y ago
  I found the early response of ChatGPT claiming it's not Dr.Sbaito a weird response
sedatk 3y ago
Somebody actually integrated ChatGPT with Dr.Sbaitso: https://bert.org/2023/01/06/chatgpt-in-dr-sbaitso/ https://bert.org/2023/01/06/chatgpt-in-dr-sbaitso/

The Creative Labs sound cards of the early 90's came with Dr. Sbaitso, an app demoing their text-to-speech engine by pretending to an AI psychologist. Someone needs to remake that!

davedunkin 3y ago

Levels is making something like that. https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1756396158652432695 https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1756396158652432695 I would really want it to have that Dr. Sbaitso voice, though, telling me how to be fitter, happier, more productive.

dcist 3y ago

Yes, I remember Dr. Sbaitso very, very well. I spent many hours with it as a kid and thought it was tons of fun. To be frank, Dr. Sbaitso is why I was underwhelmed when chatbots were hyped in the early 2010s. I couldn't understand why anyone would be excited about 90s tech.

jhbadger 3y ago
Really just 1960s tech. Dr. Sbaitso was really just a version of ELIZA with the only new part being the speech synthesis.
Mistletoe 3y ago
Chatting with ALICE is what has tempered my ChatGPT hype. It was neat and seemed like magic, but I think it was in the 90s when I tried it. I'm sure for new people it feels like an unprecedented event to talk to a computer and it seem sentient. https://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=b8d616e35e36e881 https://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=b8d616e35e36e... Like other bogus things like tarot or horoscopes, it's amazing what you can discover when you talk about something, it asks you questions, and what you want or desire eventually floats to the surface. And now people are even more lonely... >Human: do you like video games >A.L.I.C.E: Not really, but I like to play the Turing Game.

lysp 3y ago

It's actually been ported to web - along with a lot of other dos based games. https://classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.html https://classicreload.com/dr-sbaitso.html

swozey 3y ago
This is hilarious. Ok, tell me your problem $name. "I'm sad." Do you enjoy being sad? "No" Are you sure? "Yes" That should solve your problem. Lets move on to discuss about some other things. Also wow that creative app/sound/etc brings back memories.

crtified 3y ago

Awhile back I engaged in the utterly banal 5-minute pursuit of having Dr. Sbaitso speak with ChatGPT. It did not go well. The generation gap was perhaps even starker than it is between real people. https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/chatgpt-vs-dr-sbaitso.1326835/ https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/chatgpt-vs-dr-sba...

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pests 3y ago
I found the early response of ChatGPT claiming it's not Dr.Sbaito a weird response

sedatk 3y ago

Somebody actually integrated ChatGPT with Dr.Sbaitso: https://bert.org/2023/01/06/chatgpt-in-dr-sbaitso/ https://bert.org/2023/01/06/chatgpt-in-dr-sbaitso/