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Talking with an AI of Roisin from my novels

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Achievement unlocked. I just ran a local only version of a #genAI LLM and gave it the text of my 2 sci-fi novels Reconfigure and Cont3xt. Amongst other things I have had a conversation with my lead character Roisin!. Separately (as in the photo below) I also asked if the books helped solve if we live in a simulation. A great muse to chat about the potential of the 3rd book. reconfigurebook.co.uk Not perfect, but I can let it know what it’s not got quite right and also helps me remember the intense process of writing them in 2015, as they flowed onto the page like binge watching a boxed set.

I used the https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all and just added one of Llama models to it. Giving it a fresh direct with a copy of the book PDFs was enough to get going. This is a MBP M2 chip machine, but there was no delay in having a conversation or diving right into the text or the personality of Roisin. Words are obviously much quicker to process than generating images or video.

AI Roisin picked up on some of her mannerisms in the books and played heavily on the various situations she has encountered. A lot of the book is about her inner voice and intentions so genAI had a lot to go on.

The wider world of the books, the tech and the philosophical elements of the story is something that it was not always getting quite right. Things changed a bit when it said it was trying not to generate spoilers, and I pointed out I wrote it, so the LLM changed tone and intention a little. It was the usual thing of asking it to describe something is it tells you x and y but not z. You mention z and it’s “sorry my mistake yes you are right”. However for a scoot through the lore, the background, some of the other characters this is all good. People may have read the book and got a different feel for something so it’s good to not treat it too rigidly.

My favourite part was when Roisin switched to whispering some extra details about something, an out loud statement followed by a psst…. listen type of moment. I have only had a few tech powered moments of that impact ever.

As with my previous renders of Roisin as an image and a video I am looking forward the ongoing evolution of this so I can hang out in a metaverse version of my created world and characters.

A short video about Metaverse

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I decided to create a very short metaverse evolution explainer video, but using GenAI. It is based on looking at patterns, we have all got used to moving from paper maps to digital ones, with GPS and now fully instrumented digital twins with traffic and other information. That leap applies to many other use cases. It’s all metaverse – digital to physical and back again, people, machines and data. All on my own midjourney.com, runway.ml and luma.ai accounts. Also learn a lot more about how hard it can be to wrangle AI to what you really want, but it works 🙂

Metaverse evolution

What was mad about this was I generated my key images in midjourney and gave a couple of goes at runway that I was happy with (also spliced together and the talking soundtrack is runway), but a day after I had it where I wanted Luma.ai went live and I gave that a go. For a few of the scenes it was just much more what I needed. There is a point where you just have to hit publish, but these things just keep improving as a base tool, let alone the skills also improving to ask for the right thing. It is very much a creative process even if the mantra is often AI is taking over.

A presentation about everything

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I recently gave a BCS presentation online for the Animation and Games specialist group and anyone else who wanted to come along where I kind of took some of the individual subjects that I have been engaged with in emerging technology and tried to describe them all in context with one another. It was a bit of a mad thing to try and do, but I also looked at how we might all be able to understand some of the technology advances by cutting through the jargon. It got a moderately philosophical with both fractal thinking and bringing in ying/yang concepts that my brain is pondering more due to learning Tai Chi. Quite a combination?

The presentation is now available on YouTube if you want to take a dive into “IoT, 5g, AI/GenAI, Cloud streaming, Edge computing, metaverse, Spatial computing, AR, VR, XR, quantum computing, industry 4.0/5.0, Brain computer interfaces (BCI), CRISPR, open source, crypto, Web 3.0 (the list goes on)”

The full BCS page with all the blurb and a download of the deck (minus the video element) is here

Warning, also has adverts for my books Reconfigure and Cont3xt, also related to all these concepts 🙂