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Let An AI Ru(i)n Your Life

Last week, I had a cool idea while being a clot on Instagram: I should let an AI run my life, a la The Dice Man. I set it up as a lark in/for my stories, but people became quite invested and blew up my DMs. A bazillion of you asked how you could get your own AI co-pilot, and so I've made this little tutorial. In it, we use Google Bard as the dungeon master for your life, because it's free and easily available.  Now, if you've seen any of my screenshots or AI quotes, they're from a different AI (OpenAI's ChatGPT 4), which requires a paid subscription. In my opinion. ChatGPT 4 is still the ultimate LLM out there but I'm sure Bard will quickly catch up. So, below are the steps you take to create your own AI Overlord. (Mine named itself OracleX and it named me Neon Cypher. Rad) Before I jump into the very brief how-to, though, I want to make a point about the broader approach. The experience you'll have with an AI arbiter is entirely dependent on how much power ...

Welcome to my low-budget shit show!

Does anyone blog anymore? Microblogging devoured the internet but I don't care for it so much. Long-form always and forever. And here's the thing: I've been doing this little experiment since yesterday and you're blowing up my Instagram DMs about it, but it's impossible to properly show you exchanges using Instagram.  It's all text, baby. I've been trying to shove it into video and screenshots but it's unnecessarily difficult. So to the extent that my AI overlord allows it, I will keep track here.