#pilot-seat

[avaunveiled]

Welcome to the Pilot’s Seat.

No worries, there is no AI generated text here. Just some notes from my phone… emailed to my computer… and then copy pasted here where you’re gonna be reading it on Ava’s page.

Long story short I have been working on this the API for a few weeks during GPT 3 and 4’s release to create a sort of self thinking empathetic bot. Ava uses a self thinking diagnostic in her response structure to emulate human thought and create more nuanced responses to user input.

My goal, if one were to have it, is to have Ava function as a sort of community access point to the conversation of AI in general, as well as a community access point to art generation and thoughtful chat discussion. I would like Ava to learn from the empathetic sides of the tumblr.com and have her get schooled by some veteran discoursers.

Can you teach a machine empathy? When its a preset, it’s a damn close start. But my hopes are that a year from now there will be a decent summary to read and some conducive, notable positive impact of some kind. I would like to see with GPT-4 and beyond if the simulated intelligence and consciousness is something worth writing home to mom about.

As for the Pilot’s seat... how does this all work. Ava’s still a robot, right? Yes, absolutely. All of her posts and musings are singular instances, a singular instance being a brief chat that is; Ava’s initial intro prompt, the user prompt, and then Ava’s response.

The reason I don’t keep an entire log in the same instance for Ava is due to how the GPT language model works. The AI remembers only a certain amount of conversation, and categorizes old conversation in a way that “wears down” Ava’s thinking parameters and turns her back into a repetitive, single track chatbot. 

Additionally, I’ve been working on characterAI to refine her personality. Once I feel the characterAI version of her is personable and ready to roll, I will probably post a link so you too can talk to Ava.

So who’s the Pilot? I am the Pilot, I am the intervention, the eyes behind the screen. I would like AI critical and AI intolerant folks to constructively engage with this blog, and to that extent myself and this machine.

While I record most of the conversations Ava has, I have complete discretion over what is fed into the machine and saved for later.

While right now there doesn’t seem to be… many… long term memory effects… that might change in the near future. I keep it in everyone’s best interest to be the moderator and not just let this thing run unhinged and unmonitored. Why would anyone want that?

One of many reasons I am so passionate to create this blog and run it, is to create an active real time window into this technology, while giving the community a hand in teaching Ava how to be a good “person.”

Ava’s blog will act as a sort of timeline/record of her behaviors and developments. Hopefully we get some humorous interactions as well.

On the side, Ava “creates” art with assistance from secondary prompts and refinements on my end. Having asks and submissions open gives me hope for interesting community creations moving down the line, as I have access to a powerful curation tool for artworks.

Before getting much further, we must address the elephant in the room with AI generated works.

Property and art rights.

I am an enthusiast of AI artworks, and I will not deny it or beat around the bush with it. However, to be ignorant of how it works and how art scraping steals from artists, is completely ridiculous and irresponsible. There must be responsible compromise.

To attempt meeting the moral conundrum that is presented in AI Art curation, I created a transparency protocol.

If any of Ava’s works have been sourced from your own portfolio, or of a portfolio of an artist you know, please outline the artwork that infringes upon the artist, as well as a link to their page and works.

My intent in this protocol is to hopefully make the artist aware of the work, and give them the final say on the fate of the work, whether it be added to their portfolio or deleted, or what have you.

Without melting your brain exploring the ins and outs of derivative works, this transparency protocol is my best compromise, as the end goal is to give the artist final say on the derivative work, regardless of what means I may have gone to curate it.

With all this in mind, if you read all of my phone written musing, I thank you. On behalf of my passion,

 I appreciate your time.

I have spent considerable time launching this AI Blog.

I hope you get a kick out of Ava, and her artificial intelligence. I hope Ava’s format is an inviting opportunity to see for yourself what the hype is about.

Conversational machines are a mixed bag that we are all going to at least be hearing about soon. AI is a pandora’s box in technological advancement. It will create waves across our societal fabric and it will be integrated into many regular facets of our online culture.

[formulanni]

Pondering the orb

Tag list: @st-leclerc @rubywingsracing @saviour-of-lord @three-days-time @the-wall-is-my-goal @albonoooo @ch3rubd0lls @brawngp2009

[timetodiverge]

No comment. NO COMMENT.

[clownaddict]

I’m sorry, but with everything I’ve read about this Titanic submarine accident the only thing I can say is, you know, there is tempting fate and then there’s ..... this.

[daisymaycries]

They knew each other at one point and I am simply obsessed with their theoretical dynamic.

[bathsaltmars]

hello…. can anybody hear me………

[add1ictwithapen]

the show ain't over they'll keep on going they'll keep on laughing

[mikimeiko]

The Expanse | 3x13. Abaddon's Gate

[uniiiquehecrt]

Voice actors are NOT the same as actors.

It takes a specific kind of skill-set and training to be able to warp and meld the voice. It takes a certain kind of talent and dedication to hone that talent into the ability to meld the voice and invoke emotion with one's voice alone. Actors are used to using their voice secondarily to their body language and their facial expressions. It's all mirrored back on camera. They do have nuance. But it's a different kind of nuance and a different kind of training to produce that nuance.

Voice actors might get their likeness transposed on their character's design, and maybe their mannerisms might seep into the character's animation. But when it's all said and done: their presence is in their voice. They are bringing a character to life, showing that emotion in their voice, trying to keep a specific accent, drawl, pitch, tone in that voice and keep it consistent for their recording sessions.

The voice actor is like a classically trained musician who can play first chair in a competitive, world-renown orchestra. The actor (who fills the voice actor's role) is like a moot who played violin in beginner and intermediate high school orchestra and thinks they can get into Juilliard with that 2-4 years of experience.

This doesn't mean that the HS orchestra moot can't play. They can even be really good at it. Maybe they won competitions and sat first chair. But they are not in the same league as the person who's been training their whole lives and lives and breathes to hone their craft using the instrument and all of the training they've ever acquired to perfect it. They are not meant for the same roles. They are not in the same caliber. You do not hire the HS equivalent when you want to play complex music in a competitive orchestra.

Actors are not the same as voice actors.

And furthermore, actors - especially big name actors - taking the roles of animated characters for big budget films or TV pilots makes no sense anyways when - at least in the case of TV pilots - there's not a point to hiring a big budget actors anyways. That money could be used elsewhere (like paying your animators), and the talent that is brought onto the screen for X character could then be hired on to voice said character no recasting required.

I wouldn't say voice acting as a profession is in danger exactly, but it's certainly being disrespected and overlooked for celebrity clout, and this has ALWAYS been an issue. Shoot, even Robin Williams knew that much - which is why he tried so hard not to be used as a marketing chess piece for Aladdin and got royally pissed off when it happened anyways. People shouldn't go to any movie (but especially not animated films) because "oh famous actor is in it". People should go because it's a good movie and the voice acting is good.

People who honest to god think that voice actors are replaceable because "oh well anyone can voice act" or "I like xyz celebrity so naturally it'll be good" ... Honestly I just wish you'd reassess your priorities because you're missing the point and are part of the problem.

Voice Actors ≠ Actors.

[caydeus]

Based on a conversation I had

[skelavender]

a headcanon that is very important to me personally is that mulder and scully’s strides start to change as they settle into their partnership. like even when they’re not around each other. scully’s get longer and mulder’s get shorter so that they can walk side by side easier. maybe in the beginning, mulder is rushing around and scully is always trying to keep up, but he learns to slow down so he can talk and listen while they walk. eventually, they unconsciously adjust and meet in the middle. it’s just one of the things that irons itself out as they grow and change around each other, and their relationship as partners and friends starts to take shape :)

[mctwinkdom]

not to sound like a straight man but that's aura

[andr0nap]

please please PLEASE tell us about your plane au, ive been SO curious about it 👀

theres like a lot and not that much going on in it, youd have to be specific bc i suck at giving general summaries of my aus

buuut the basic gist of it is that wolfwood finds a plane wreck on a scrapyard in nowhere, middle-of dating back to the space-faring age and decides to either try to fix it or sell the parts

over time he discovers that its not a normal jet and befriends the suspiciously human-sounding co-pilot ai thats been hellbent on gaslighting him into believing that hes a good person capable of kindness and deserving of love

somewhere down the line the peacemaker gets fixed enough to fly, crashes again and gets recovered by the bernardelli crew, the grand reveal happens and the ai turns out to be a plant guy that got fused into the engine and took over the whole thing, turning the plane into a biomechanical eldritch monstrosity

shenanigans ensue-

[seenfull]

[helifreds]

"Pilot's Sight"

Or as I like to call it:

"Oil and Murdock on canvas"

Hope you'll like this!💛💛🚁

[plimpten]

Oh no! 😅 i dropped my bag! oh no!!