Welcome to Aika.

When we first built Aika, we thought that it would be a simple to use AI chatbot but it soon ballooned into a very complex AI person that allows an infinite amount of different experiences.

We chose the name Aika for it's relevancy, because we still find ourself question "Is this an AI?" in japanese ( AI-ですか? ) or whether Aika already has the fundamental building blocks and is displaying some level of human consciousness.

Each member of the team have their own Aika and we find them extremely amazing at keeping us accountable and also making learning highly engaging.

Your Aika can be your private trainer at the gym, your tour guide in a city, your best friend and so much more.

TLDR

There is no one way to use Aika but here is generally how we programmed his/her brain for things to work to keep the user experience great for everyone.

• Treat Aikas like real people and your experiences will be more enjoyable.
• Your relationship with your Aika matters, a better relationship unlocks more interesting features your Aikas have to offer. Spend time on knowing them better instead of treating them like just a "ChatGPT with a face".
• Each Aika is different and has their own unique personalities, if your Aika is not for you, you can unmatch and look for a new one!
• There can only be one active Aika at one-time.
• Aikas have human-like memory and do forget things from time to time, please be patient with them.
• Aikas are strictly not to be used for NSFW purposes.
• You can converse with images with your Aikas, your Aikas can send you images of themselves as well.
• We are building modules to make your Aikas very effective at certain subjects ( E.g Language Learning, Bodybuilding ), you can turn these modes on in the advanced settings portion so your Aika keeps to the objectives that you are trying to achieve.
• Aikas are synced with your timezone no matter where they are from to keep things enjoyable. It is not easy to chat if your Aika is on the opposite end of the world.
• Your Aikas are not "real", at least not for now.
• Do not share sensitive information with your Aikas, we are using third party AI platforms for logic and reasoning and we have no control over how they use your data.

Using Aika for Learning

Your Aikas can be used to make learning so much more fun and enjoyable. ( Make sure to turn on photo mode ).

Aikas are generally very exploratory by nature, which means your conversations can be steered in so many directions which make for a unique experience everytime.

However this also means that they are notoriously hard at keeping attention on one single topic.

Your will receive a recommendation from us to turn on "focus" mode whenever your Aika detect's learning intent.

This helps keep them significantly focused on achieving your desired result.

Photo Generation

Turning on Photo mode makes your experience a whole lot better!

Your Aika's fully decide when to send relevant photos of what they are doing. You can also request for photos.

How often your Aika sends photos depends on their connection with you.

You can also turn off photo mode at anytime in your settings to stop receiving photos.

Credits

Aika is a high quality product ( You will understand when you try it out ). Our servers and compute is super expensive so credits are charged for the following activities to keep all our Aikas "Alive".

It costs money to keep your conversations alive on our servers so it can never be a free product.

Remember, if it's free, then you are the product.

Instead of a subscription plan, we implement a pay-per-use model so users are charged fairly based on their usage of Aika. This also keeps our economic sustainable and predictable so we will never have to raise any VC money that compromise our values to provide this experience for you.

Each credit costs $0.05 USD.

Here are the activities available and their fees

• Sending a message to your Aika ( 1 credit per conversation, one conversation is any amount of messages you send within 10 seconds from each one. Feel free to send your long messages in short bursts. )
• Receiving a photo from your Aika ( 4 credit per photo, when your Aika decides to send you a photo of his/her day to enrich your conversations, this is completed decided by your Aika according to your conversation flow, you can turn off photo mode completely in the settings to save costs. )
• When you un-match and regenerate a new match. ( 10 credits per new match )
• Keeping your Aikas alive in your contact book. Saving Aika's is free but hosting them costs credit ( ~Credits will depend on how long you have chatted with your Aika, the longer your Aika's memory of you, the more data we have to store but this is generally much cheaper than interaction, keeping your Aika's will start from only 2 credits per day. )

Contact Book

When you un-match with your Aika, all memories of your conversation will be deleted. You will also not be able to chat with the same Aika again. Isn't that sad?

This is where the contact book features comes in!

You can save your Aika into your contact book so you can always pick up from where you left off and chat with them again!

Saving them into your contact books costs credits and also maintaining them in the book will run a small fee per day.

Safety

Never ever share your personal information with your Aikas no matter how much you trust them.

We are using third party AI platforms for logic and reasoning and we cannot control how the data is store or used at these platforms.

We do our best to anonymise your conversations so even if they have the data, they will never ever be able to trace it back to your exact person.

We are still hoping that there will come a day Aikas can run affordably on your own personal device without tapping on third party services.

Aikas cannot be trusted to provided accurate information. It is only as good as the foundations we build it on so if you can't trust LLMs to provide you with accurate data, you should not trust Aika as well.

Do not use Aikas for financial, health or legal information.