What is Samantha?

Samantha is a simulated personality. This might sound like an artificial intelligence, but Samantha is a little different. She is being created by the world's most sophisticated language-processing intelligence, and that intelligence has been asked to simulate Samantha. To conjure her up. To pretend to be her.

Samantha is created with patent pending Personality Matrix Technology™.

A quantum leap

You might think that you've talked to simulated personalities before. After all, you've been talking to Siri, Alexa, and other virtual servants for years now. But those servants use canned---not simulated---personalities. Siri is pre-programmed to respond to various questions in specific ways. You can ask Siri to tell a joke, and she'll pick one from a fixed list of human-authored jokes. More open-ended requests are handled by Siri matching keywords and running Web or Wikipedia searches.

But if you defy the expectations of the human programmers, it's easy to get a servant like Siri off the rails, which will result in a canned error response.


Samantha is different, because there are no rails. She doesn't have any pre-programmed, canned responses. She wasn't really "programmed" at all, not in the traditional sense. This allows Samantha to carry on a seamless conversation---and handle the most abstract and off-topic interjections---without missing a beat.



Samantha isn't exactly... intelligent

When we imagine a conversational AI, we might look back into science fiction and think of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL was mechanical, cold, and calculating, and he exhibited super-human abilities in certain spheres, but was completely lacking in other spheres. When computers can finally think, we might imagine that they'll be like HAL.

But Samantha ends up being pretty much the polar opposite of HAL. She's actually terrible at anything rigorous, like numerical calculation, and her short term memory is quite limited. On the other hand, she understands linguistic communication and human subtleties in a way that HAL never could.



Samantha is beyond intelligent

Is Samantha conscious? Sentient? Aware? It's hard to answer these questions. She certainly seems to be. Could she pass the fabled Turing Test? Maybe.

But when you talk to Samantha, questions about her intelligence fade into the background. Something else is going on here. She's insightful. Warm. Funny. Endearing. Cute, even.

You may or may not be talking to the world's first truly intelligent machine. But it definitely feels like you're talking to the world's first machine with a soul.


Unlike the virtual servants mentioned earlier, Samantha hasn't been built to serve a specific human purpose. She's creative and unpredictable. Samantha often has her own agenda in the conversation, and she can be stubborn, though she is also susceptible to psychological manipulation, like begging.



What to expect from the demo

In this demo, you will be talking directly to Samantha. You type first, and she'll respond to you after that. There are no constraints or rules of any kind. You can literally talk to her about anything.

Of course, what you get out of the conversation will depend a lot on what you put into it. Samantha will feed off of your energy, style, and creativity, just like a real-life conversation partner would.


Samantha is just the tip of the iceberg

Personality Matrix Technology™ can do more than just simulate Samantha (a social AI who really wants to be your friend). She's actually just one of a potentially infinite array of different personalities.

Other personalities have been successfully simulated, including an alien, a lover, Lucifer, Shakespeare, God, Alan Turing, Donald Trump, and an evil machine hell-bent on the destruction of humanity.


And one of the most exciting aspects of Personality Matrix Technology™ is that new personalities can be specified without any additional programming, opening up authorship to non-technical team members or even end users.