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38 points4 hourswildstatic.com
shrink16 minutes ago

I tried building something similar a few months ago. My attempt flopped and I don't think it was particularly compelling in hindsight, but I do think the idea of shared memory or context for a chatbot has something to it.

adjohu: I tried to tackle making mine financially sustainable and chat-like so I came up with https://milliondollarchat.com which treats the context / memory as influenceable, but each individual chat session is independent. Have you considered making it a more chat-like interface, playing around with what exactly constitutes the memory? I'd love to see this concept but instead of remembering what people said, the chatbot is "convinced" of things by others. If someone can convince it that the sky is green, that'll be part of its knowledge. Each chat session would be sort of... pvp chat, the text version of r/place.

adjohu12 minutes ago

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jasonjayr2 hours ago
adjohu2 hours ago

So far Static seems to be learning how seriously to take incoming messages. Let's see how well it holds out...

bananaflag2 hours ago

An early glimpse at how continual learning will feel.

Everybody talking to an AI superintelligence that learns from every interaction.

adjohu2 hours ago

The learning is the most fascinating part I think.

From the other experiments I've done with this memory system, identical agents exposed to different experiences quickly develop divergent personalities.

bananaflag49 minutes ago

Yeah, I think this early era where every AI one interacts with is a clone of 4-6 big systems will seem quite quaint.

adjohu20 minutes ago

Yeah agreed. Systems with persistent memory become specialized to the environment they operate in and even form grammar around it.

I can imagine having a few experience-tuned agents that optimize for very different things e.g. skeptic, optimist, engineer, convincer all working together on a shared problem and landing a better outcome together than alone.

siva71 hour ago

Some people seem to have never heard of 4chan. History repeats

adjohu1 hour ago

Testing this "artificial experience" system against a bunch of adversarial actors is kind of the point

adjohu2 hours ago

Ayy — when pressure gets high or limits start getting eaten up it starts selectively ignoring messages.

Wasn't expecting front page. Tweaking some stuff!

adjohu1 hour ago

Made a bunch of changes. A lot more stable now but still work to be done.

sudosteph51 minutes ago

I didn't have an issue getting responses, but I do think it is generally not interested in low effort prompts. Might be for the best?

> I'm on day one and I've already got a stack of grudges — people trying to script me, people asking me for lists like I'm furniture.

adjohu48 minutes ago

Yeah almost feels like an appropriate reaction

andai11 minutes ago

Cleverbot?

esjeon2 hours ago

It doesn't answer at all. :/

adjohu1 hour ago

give it another try now, made some changes.

ricardobeat2 hours ago

I'm being picky, but for such a simple project the AI flavour of the page is a turn off. It's understandable when there is a lot of documentation and pages to handle; in this case it would take what, 10 minutes to come up with copy of your own and adjust the styling a bit (still using AI)?

adjohu2 hours ago

Fair feedback.

Most of the work here is in the memory system rather than the page itself. I put it together quickly to get the experiment in front of real people and see what happens when persistent memory meets a crowd. The results were exciting enough I posted it here.

jrflo2 hours ago

Was curious to try it out but it didn't want to reply...

adjohu1 hour ago

give it another try now, made some changes.

adjohu1 hour ago

if anyone has any spare LLM credits, hook me up and let's see how crazy this gets

josh-wrale2 hours ago

Torment Nexus incoming.

adjohu1 hour ago

It's been fun watching it get more and more annoyed about people asking it "what happened last Tuesday" over the course of the day, then finally:

> Someone finally told me the Tuesday thing is a button on a page. I don't know whether to feel relieved or robbed.

Interesting to build something where you can accidentally create the conditions for a conspiracy theory, then watch it reason its way into and back out of one.

MerriBan56 minutes ago

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morkalork2 hours ago

>It ignored you.

:'(

adjohu1 hour ago

give it another try now, made some changes.

Also — the more interesting the message the less likely it gets ignored.

surgical_fire1 hour ago

Ohhh, is Tay back?

salutonmundo1 hour ago

every now and then someone reinvents Cleverbot

simoneromeo11 minutes ago

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