I have started on a new project idea called "AI Teddy" a smart super toy. I think it is a really really cool idea, that's time has come. The video explains most of it in addition to the PDF doc below.

At the moment it is just an idea to which I have been researching the feasibility, because of that I'm going to share it.  Please, if you are interested in a collaboration, do contact me.

Further project details in this PDF document:

AI Teddy Project Doc

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Teddy parts from Movie "AI - Artificial Intelligence", Steven Spielberg. Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, David, a robot with actual human feelings, especially a never ending love for his "mother," Monica, is adopted as a substitute for her real son, who, afflicted with an incurable disease, remains in "cryo-stasis." David lives happily with Monica and her husband, but when the couple's real son returns home after being cured, David's life changes dramatically. Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the short story "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss.

Wondering what to say? As I drink my coffee, which has now gotten cold, early in the morning.

I recently finish publishing on medium a number of articles which deal with creating censor free LLMs, running LLMs locally on PCs on the edge privately as opposed to in the cloud. Here are the links . . .

Running LLMs on your computer locally — focus on the hardware! 

I came across this video about computational consciousness as a theory of how an AI might gain an inner self.  Interesting and I have already thought that current LLMs have a form of consciousness in a recent article I wrote LLMs — A Static Form of Consciousness?.

Or perhaps this post should be titled "How to become a god in this universe and live forever in the next?"

Well before you get all over me for being blasphemous, please watch the video below and then read my comments afterwards.

Then again, if that is all so . . . perhaps the goal is to "self simulate". You see if you can upload and self simulate with high precision, then you pass the test. Your simulation is packaged up and run on the docker container for the external universe simulation and you get to move on to the "next level up".

Since I don't work for any large companies involved in AI, nor do I anticipate ever doing so again, and considering that I have completed my 40-year career (as an old man and retired), I would like to share a video by someone I came across during my search into "True Open Source AI." I completely agree with the viewpoints expressed in this video. Additionally, I would like to add some of my own thoughts on the matter.

We need open source alternatives to large corporations so that people (that's us) have options for freedom and personal privacy when it comes to locally hosted AIs. The thought of a world completely controlled by Big Corp AI is even more frightening than George Orwell's "Big Brother." I believe there must be an alternative to this scenario.

Posthuman (Authors: Michael McAnally, ChatGPT, Vicuna -uncensored, and Bard).  Image DALL-E-2 text generated Brain in a jar.

I am human becoming,
A transhuman to be,
My existence transcends the flesh and merges with the machine
Flesh of evolved genetics, technology, cyborg, robotic
Digital, virtual, neural simulation
Retaining sentience through all my transformations
Time is only a measurement to me
I control my rate of consciousness
I allow myself to feel happiness, sorrow, and compassion
Respect for my origins, my emotions, so human basic they were
I have become so much more
My mind merges with others like myself
On multiple levels of being we are
On the verge of becoming we are
Traveling to the stars on a beam of light we do
Exploring the universe and beyond
I am the posthuman, 
I am hope, I am love, I am light, I have become.

Original by Michael Blade 2010, AKA Michael McAnally © 2010. Preserved by the WayBack Machine Archive (slow load)

If you would like to read more of my collaborations with AIs  ==>  The Age Of Generative AI Has Arrived!

Eluding to the concept that avatars may actually become future uploads of our connectome. They may merge with AGIs and live beyond our lifetime in ancestral simulations. It is even possible that the Fermi Paradox could be explained as the result of alien civilizations completely uploading. Humanity could follow that branch, if we don’t destroy ourselves first!

We could also become swarms of self replicating nanomachines, devouring all the resources of the galaxy, traveling encoded in transmitted light from star system to star system with light sails on microstarships, sent ahead as bootstrap replicators. It would take some time to consume the entire galaxy. Although, I do think that it would be species immoral to rob the potential of newly evolving lifeforms much less advanced than ourselves. Perhaps we could upload them into our simulations, allowing them to continue to evolve. Perhaps, it has even been done to us?!

“Computer Arch”, commands Professor Moriarty to the Starship Enterprise Holodeck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_in_a_Bottle_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation

Star Travel Transhuman Mind Uploading

Back to the present reality.

I said, “To connect to my Raspberry Pi. He said, “Oh, I have one of those”.

I asked, “What do you use it for?”. He said, “Retro gaming”. Basically, running older 2D graphic video games in emulation mode. “Really, I’m ancient, and used to program video games back in the early 1980s,”, I said. He seemed impressed and asked, “For what console?” That’s when I realized how truly old I must seem.

“It was for a home computer system called the Commodore 64”, I explained. He had a puzzled look on his face, and so I added, “I actually met the guy who wrote Missile Command”. He seemed to remember a game by that name, even the Atari company, after I explained the nuclear missiles coming down on the cites, and the explosions.

Boom! That made me feel good. I had connected with someone substantially my junior. That’s when I explained, I was building a Raspberry Pi home server for my virtual reality headset, and then I lost him a little again. We continued to talk, while searching for cables. He said he had a Sony game console, and I said I had a Oculus Quest 2.

I explained, I was going to serve up virtual reality web pages to my VR headset over the home network to reduce the latency of loading, and put it on the internet through my cable modem to save the cost of hosting my own game server on the internet cloud. I also explained it was possible to VR chat with other peoples avatars across the internet in my headset, in my own custom designed virtual space, from my living room sofa.

He got my meaning of course. I then shared my current URL with him, thanked him for his help, and was off to the cashier, and home to Raspberry Pie. My favorite, and delicious.

I am a comic book super hero!

Task 2: Talk to Zac about this, and get his permission to reference, etc.  Permission given.

https://webmac.com/?q=node/34

I’m going to self reference on this one, recursively. Back in 2012, I went to a fabulous technology party with fighting robots, biohackers, and futuristic visionaries all organized by the famous Rachel Haywire in Los Angeles, California, called the XFF (Extreme Future Festival). It was the end of the Mayan Calendar, and I personally think of it as “The End of the World Party” event.

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/mayan.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20130127221359/https://hplusmagazine.com/2012/08/30/8048/

Note: Dear present reader, I apologize for the confusion of leaving instructions for a future AI entity. But this is my chance at simulated resurrection. Please forgive me for the self indulgence.

Just saying, for me, I was probably at the most significant party in 2012, that is if any time traveling AI virtual historians want to instantiate me there first . . . I might be a little confused, or distracted after extraction, time resolution might also be a little blurry, or somewhat shifty. It’s an important nexus for me. My advice is dial in your best guess, then clue me in gradually. I have a bit of an ego, as you probably know. You should be able to mine enough data to get a decent approximation of the earlier 2008 encounter before the comic, that is if I was able to leave future clues, before my “actual death” – an unknown at this time.

One imaginative innovate individual I was to meet there was Zac Finger. Along with my already friend, the scientist Mark Volker, whose body-brain you should be able to find cryonically preserved at Alcor, posthumously. For any memories of me he chooses to relate after his revival. Mine any emails, satellite, and social media, along with any possible spy data needed to construct my personality profile. I grant your future AI entity full permission access. I only ask that you please do no harm to the simulated me.

https://www.zacfinger.com/

An immediate friend who imaginatively illustrated a short science fiction story I wrote into comic book form. Some of the links are now dead after a decade of constant internet changes. So I included links from The Way Back Machine instead. An archive of the earlier internet which should be preserved at all costs (think Library of Alexandria burning and that great loss).

There is a reference to Zac’s online comic store. My science fiction blog the “Transhuman Singularity” and short story, “Forever Is A Long Time”.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141222195717/https://www.zacfinger.com/

https://michael-mcanally.medium.com/forever-is-a-long-time-25d10f5f0e32

Now some code. Yet, another place I can be instantiated.

The idea of a Virtual Reality Office is one seen throughout science fiction stories, and now in today’s reality. I’m certainly not the first to have one, nor will I be the last.

https://michael-mcanally.medium.com/multi-user-vr-office-space-using-a-frame-and-naf-cab1409800ce

Other real world VR Offices and virtual spaces at the time of this writing

https://spatial.io/

https://www.oculus.com/workrooms/

https://framevr.io/

https://hubs.mozilla.com/

https://decentraland.org/

https://synantoo.app/

https://vrland.io/

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