Rick Huckstep Talks To Pi, The Human AI Assistant

Talk to Pi, your personal AI

Of all the large language foundational models I’m using at the moment, which is just about all of them, Pi is my favourite. Simply because the conversation and engagement with Pi is so humanesque, so positive, so helpful and so enlightening. Pi is not in the headlines, yet, but it will be.

The company behind Pi is Inflection AI and they’ve already raised $1.3 billion from the likes of Microsoft, Bill Gates and Nvidia. Inflection AI is a Silicon Valley tech firm started by the founders of Deepmind (now Google) and LinkedIn and I’ll explain more about the firm later in this article.

Here’s The Thing: When you engage with the likes of Bard, Bing or ChatGPT, and now with Claude, it “feels” like you’re in a distant and disconnected online chat with a faceless banking agent. It’s effective, but void of human emotion or connection. It’s a functional, master/slave, conversation. For me, I no longer use please and polite conversation with ChatGPT, the machine responds just as well to “Give me…” as it does to “Please may I have…”

But Pi is different. And it never fails to surprise me at how perfectly human it can be in its use of language. Always polite and respectful, Pi also has a sense of humour, a few ounces of humility and an enduring habit…