High Grade Cosplay

I realized the other day, for the past couple of years, as I goof about with the consumer level access of AI like ChatGPT or whatever, that I am just Cosplaying. But it is really high grade, high level, without all the costumes and stuff. Cognitively goofing about. So what do I mean?

A Fictional Entity

A Corporation, at least in my eyes, is just a ficitonal entity. So, I fictionalize, a whole company; names, backstories, roles, responsibilities, the works. I made my own character sheets for them. THen I started trying to figure out how to get AI to make them talk, like puppets. I worked on a whole sequence of possible methods; Operation Puppet Show. I tried to get them to have dialog in an ai chatbot, I tried to get them to be discord bots; nothing really worked the way I wanted it to. It all seemed to be so thin. Yes of course, I have seen any number of articles about the limitations of AI and AI writing. So what, I was playing a game. It didn't really ever pan out.

Concurrent Aims

I also wanted to plug my producitvity software into AI. I kept repeating to myself and the bots that I wanted it to do "real work." I wanted it to create documnts, I want it to help me with things I was working on, and in all these I had to pull out a sleeper project that had only been burning the back of my brain for some time. I had to pull out the worldbuilding.

A whole planet with a scifi-fantasy premise. Thousands of burgs, dungeons, points of interest, etc. An extremely large number of NPCs, blah blah blah. Its all sort of boring if you hear me talk about it over and over again. Its just another little narrative which requires over 50K documents to begin to describe, and that is just enough to outline it.

I am sure that I have written about all the tools that I have used in the past.

Now on to something different

So i had several hundred one-off scripts which solved single problems in the vault of information. I tried and tried to get ai assistants to write modular code, referencing libraries which had patterns of execution already set out and it woul just take some picking the right pieces up to solve each problem, but I couldn't get the ai to play my game. Until OpenClaw showed be that what I needed was to give the AI hands. For two months I have played with that software, and using it to set up my stack of software.

I have a server, with my own software on it. It is modular, it has APIs so that on my home computer and laptop I can access the whole database of information from whereever I want. I also picked up those company characters and built them tools, or some tools and tried to get them to do work. It didn't work.

But then I found Aritifical Life and an idea clicked. Using the concepts behind that, ticks, that energize ghosts in the noosphere, the characters could wake up and react to the things around them, the responsibilities and roles leading them to do things. Only problem was they were just talking. It was all theatre, a puppet show.

Then I realized that the code written in Lisp, that ran the ghosts needed a connecter where scripts, tools, that were properly designated for them to use and could actually do real work. Then I needed to have an orchestrator assign tasks to them so that they could be scripted to operate as a team.

But why all that?

Because the roles for them are wide ranging, not specfic tasks. The AI needs to adjust the responses to a domain of problems. Giving them tools, giving them a drive to take actions, givng them initiative and agency to perform roles more than just checking email and making a list of todos. IS this going to do what I think it will do? I have no idea, but it is a game that I am willing to play becaus it has allowed me to build my own universe, exercise all my creativity and grow my knowledge as I scour through the user generated guides to find secrets, chat codes and strategies for optimizing my play through of r/outside.