Sophie For You by Sarah Rothberg

Sophie For You2023

Custom software (color, sound), computer, screen, keyboard, mouseDimensions variable

Sophie For You is a web-based work that allows visitors to interface with an embodied interactive chatbot named Sophie. The character Sophie was born from a ChatGPT description of an AI-hallucinated, non-existent performance allegedly staged by Rothberg. Within this “performance” a character named Sophie surveyed the intersection of artificial intelligence and human emotion. In the spirit of this AI hallucination, Sophie was designed as the avatar for the artist’s conversational AI interface. When chatting with Sophie online, users select a superprompt as a set of speaking conditions. When this work was made in 2023, the mechanism for shaping a large language model's (LLM) output was referenced as a "superprompt." This technique is now called a "system prompt." The connection to a cloud-based API for the LLM and text to speech in SOPHIE FOR YOU means that this work changes as the technology evolves.

This work is produced in collaboration with Nailah Hunter (Original Soundscape), Aaron Meyers (Unity Developer), and Yuan Pang (Additional Software Development).

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