Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakatomo is now an AI chatbot

The so-called father of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is undoubtedly the most mysterious personality whose identity is still kept secret, but now the power of artificial intelligence (AI) is giving his legacy a fresh life. The two Bitcoin aficionados have launched an AI chatbot that has been designed to respond to their inquiries about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Connect with Satoshi with the help of ‘Talk2Satoshi’

Pierre Corbin, co-organiser of the Bitcoin FilmFest, and Hugo Ferrer, co-developer of chatbots, have unveiled ‘Talk2Satoshi,’ or ‘The Bitcoin GPT,’ an artificial intelligence chatbot that can answer questions about Bitcoin and economics in the same way as Nakamoto would. This creative AI effort, which was unveiled on 31 May 2023, made use of OpenAI's ChatGPT model, which was trained on a collection of carefully selected data.

'Talk2Satoshi' makes use of the OpenAI ChatGPT AI model, which was trained on a small sample of Nakamoto's public emails, forum posts, and other materials. The data collection also includes information from a number of additional sources, including a number of books and films about cryptocurrencies. These include the books "The Bitcoin Standard'' by Saifedean Ammous, "The Price of Tomorrow" by Jeff Booth, and "The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin."

For instance, with the assistance of its other five sources, a variety of answers were provided by ‘Talk2Satoshi’ in response to the question, "Is our debt sustainable in an inflationary."

‘Talk2Satoshi:' A Satoshi fan

The AI bot maintains its creator's mystery by often responding to questions about its actual identity in a humorous allusion to Nakamoto's secrecy.

"My real name is not important. What is important is the decentralisation of power that Bitcoin represents and the potential it has to revolutionise financial systems."

'Talk2Satoshi'

'Talk2Satoshi’ has its limitations

Corbin said that the bot's purpose is to showcase how AI techniques can be applied to education. The model can produce effective answers to any questions about Bitcoin, including how it functions and how it is mined, as well as describing the network's components like Satoshis.

But at the same time, the AI chatbot developed by Corbin and Ferrer has its limits since it lacks information on current advances in Bitcoin, such as the Ordinals protocol or BRC-20 tokens. As a result, it frequently declares that it is unable to express an opinion on such subjects.

With the introduction of ‘Talk2Satoshi,’ the community of cryptocurrency fans receives a fascinating AI tool that mimics the voice of Bitcoin's mysterious founder and provides a simple way to see what Satoshi thinks about particular topics.