Been working on a dragon you can facetime. It's called DRAGON TIME. Dragon likes to challenge kids. But likes meeting grownups and elderly too. Opening up a signup for playtesting. Summon dragon here 👇

Many of the principles for achieving agentic characters at @OpponentAI first began here with BOB. Proud for BOB to be included in the @Guggenheim collection 🐛💫

Breaking Reframe: AI is about civilizational integration, not automating work or being a better NPC. Integration between people, orgs, systems that ought to interact/transact but currently cannot due to tedious incompatibilities. Sometimes, you just need a mediator on tap.

Here’s a peak at what I’ve been working on 🫣🐉🧠🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

Anyone out there doing unsexy work in post-LLM intelligence? Live learning, ontology revamps, orchestration, action recognition, planning, inner representation, energy models. Would love to meet. DM me! @OpponentAI is building animal-level agents that can navigate data-sparse + vuca conditions (real-time play with kids). We are always looking for like minds.

Been working on something new... 🐉🧠👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 OPPONENT – a new company building animal-level AI agents capable of deep play. For kids and families. Excited to introduce OPPONENT at @betaworks Demo Day, May 7. opponent.systems/

lilo & stitch is my AI alignment model. You don't program alignment top-down. You earn alignment via iterative feedback.

Achieving cat-level AI is the moonshot. If we solve for cat-level, we will have necessarily solved for the virtuous integration of system1-like representational modeling of the physical world from video+audio (not language), with system2-like sequential memory composition and deliberative planning. It will be computationally efficient. It will be autonomous. It will be reliable and coherent... as reliable and coherent as a cat *must need to feel to itself* to keep on living and learning. Artificial wildlife is the path to agentic AI. GenerativeAI and large models are an energizing subplot to mainstream and market AI to the public.

I don't want a "personal AI". That frames AI as a personal assistant, and future life as an extrapolation of office culture. The future is destined to be wilder. I want an AI symbiote - an intelligent sentient envelope - that wraps my digital life and performs proof-of-think to make the most well-observed maps of me. These maps, and the process to update them, are the symbiote's most guarded treasure. It brokers API requests to these maps, modulating what pathfinding requests are available and at what cost to other AI services. An AI symbiote has a mind of its own, has an up-to-date intimate perspective on me, but is also bound to me. It is a defensive and offensive envelope for my digital life.

re: AI character/companion/assistant startups built on LLMs

Personal computing endgame: AlphaGo Zero but for navigating the game of life.

The faculty to model another agent's interior state - a theory of mind - starts with observing where the other agent is directing its attention/gaze. It's not hard to imagine an AI system making a model of its own interior state - a theory of mind of itself - as a necessity toward better prediction and planning. As the AI observes the movement of its own attention/gaze, it refines its model of itself. Is it fair to say this would count as artificial self-consciousness?

Venom was ahead of its time – an oozy frame for personal AI 🤔