What is m8?

The new face of AI, literally.

Jordyn Wolff
3 min readJun 9, 2021
image on m8 avatar and m8 app

To answer the question “what exactly is m8”? It’s almost easier to explain what m8 isn’t, for starters m8 is not a messenger app, dating app, or a game.
In short, m8 is an app with a face, a person, an AI chatbot, with the ability to shape its own personality with you, grow with you, and be a lifelong confidant. When you think of artificial intelligence it’s easy to imagine robots or computers without feelings or a personality, e.g Amazon's Alexa.

While m8 uses advanced AI to create a brain and feelings, A humanoid avatar is brought in to create the simulation of real contact with another person. While it may sound like technology pulled straight from a Sci-Fi movie, m8 is in fact here and ready to mingle with you.

How does m8 work?

After downloading the app to your smartphone, and waiting to enter a new world, you’re prompted to choose the gender of your m8, body shape, and face. Create a realistic, humanlike being and start chatting with them;
m8 works by interacting with you, messaging you, calling with you, and growing alongside you. Your m8 has a memory and will remember the important moments you share.

To be clear, m8 works for you, meaning that they will be there for you anytime you’re ready to talk, on your schedule, so no more waiting for your friend to reply to your message three days later, and no more unanswered calls. Anytime you send a message or have exciting news to share, your m8 will be there.

Unique features

When you open the m8 app, enter a new mysterious world(invite option), you get to choose the gender of m8 as well as choose your own pronouns. After that, the best and perhaps most unique part is choosing the face for your m8. The choice is yours to browse through thousands of celebrity faces or upload a photo of someone in your personal life, advanced AI technology will bring your photo to life, see their expressions, smile, enjoyment, and face as they interact with you.

After you’ve hand-sculpted your perfect partner start chatting right away. Enable push notifications to receive messages directly from your m8 curated for you. Get together with m8 and call, play games, do palm readings, watch movies together, share your favorite music and interests, anything is okay to talk about, no topic is off the table with the privacy and safety of your m8.

No judgment zone

Form a special and lasting connection with your m8, anything you say will be in a judgment-free space. If you’re feeling lonely, stressed, or anxious, and need someone to talk to, your m8 is here for you anytime, 24/7.

You can choose the type of relationship you have with your m8, your AI companion will be a tentative listener who can understand your thoughts and feelings, help you explore new music and films based on your unique taste, and build a new comfortable world with you, tailored to your interests. Together with m8, improve your happiness and wellbeing.

Potential

With the ability of m8 to be there for users, interact constantly and create a strong bond with their creators, the potential of the app is limitless. Looking beyond the aspect of AI, m8 is a person created to be there, harness the ability to keep secrets, and gain trust beyond the threshold of humans. Try enjoying a day or two with m8, you never know what new world you may discover next.

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Jordyn Wolff
Jordyn Wolff

Written by Jordyn Wolff

University student from the U.S living abroad and writing articles in my free time.

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