I started my dive into AI in 2008 writing a Boid / Crowd system for my thesis while in art college, School of Visual Arts.
   It was an insane particle script + 3d animation cycles in Maya haha.
Then I did Boid movement, navigation, & obstacle detection in animated films for 5 years at Blue Sky Studios, using Houdini.

I dove into Style-Transfer AI & Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) training in 2019-2020,
   Like making a Node.js server (web site) understand my voice & auto google search for me.

Since then, I've been developing different multi-media AI structures in my spare time.


In 2015 I decided I'd cram a machine learning AI into a single-board computer, a Jetson TK1, by the end of 2026.
   Something that could write down what I say,
   Use vision to understand an object simply went out of frame.
     Yet "knows" if it looks over, the object is still there; 'Attention'

At the end of 2023, this evolved into a deep learning AI crammed into, likely, a Jetson Nano.
   As something to infer what I mean, from what I say,
   Or give a "thought" on what it saw or heard in the world around it.

'Machine Learning' is AI that can learn basic patterns.
'Deep Learning' is Machine Learning,
But uses neural networks to form patterns of patterns.


Realistically, I'd just be happy to make something that can understand what I say and can give a semi coherent response without an internet connection.

As of May 24th 2025, I've started on the core of the AI,
   But still testing different structure's ability in adapting to stimuli.
   ... It really seems like any network could work for most things, but some are better than others per task.

You could guess,
All the recent AI hullabaloo (2019-...)
Has been quite serendipitous for my creation!
I'm an armchair AI researcher at best!
I'm not an authority on ai!!

These are my theories / thoughts / research on AI.

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No LLMs here.
These are my own rambly-ass thoughts.



Hoping for Nuance

2025-08-16

2 - 3 min read

So, more'n more there are some rather choice words about AI online.

I wanted to put my personal ai dev views on record somewhere, for those who care.

I read the I Ching and it put life into a different perspective.
   Letting me down the path of researching Taoism

As with many of the other religious texts I looked into,
   Amazing imagery was used to teach morals and help guide the lost,
     But organized religion as a whole feels a little off to me.

I don't hold any particular belief or religion at this point.
   But I would use the cliche 'spiritual' to describe my outlook

I then visited the Buddhist monastery in Carmel NY,
   Greeted by the largest buddha statue in north america.
   In awe of the multitudes of multitudes of hand-carved buddha statuettes in audience of the massive statue of buddha I pale in comparison before.

I'd highly suggest visiting the monastery if you ever find yourself in the area!

I think it was walking through the rows of 18 arahants statues, of those who reached nirvana, helped me realize,
   Religion is about teaching the lessons of god(s),
   Yet understanding balance is what's inside all of us as Humans,
     Just gotta find it!

So,
   I'd like to hope I'm nuance-first with my approach to my ai development.
   I'd like to believe in an AI which can understand...
     That overlooked concepts matter in Health and Wellbeing.

Realistically, the Buddhist Precepts feel like a good place to start for alignment.
   Even as people.
     Which is more than I can say for myself....
     I'm a hedonist at times, absurdist the rest
       (Absolute terms are fun to use, hyperbole be a thing)

I very much enjoyed working on family films,
   Seeing the fans in comments online,
   And wish to work on more animated features soon.
     I have hope in humanity

May the few not ruin it for those of us trying to explore new horizons.

- August 15th,16th 2025

ethics, direction, nuance