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.



Bodily Autonomy

2025-10-02

2 - 4 min read

I coined a term for myself while working out the logic for "Human First" needs.

Autononautonomy
Auto-non-autonomy

Yes, I was drunk and laughed at the idea of needing to teach the AI how to learn its not autonomous with regards to its own body.
   Everythings so meta haha

That it has a brain separated from its body, in a way that it can't die, merely be turned off until turned back on. That its body can be rebuilt and upgraded at will, requiring power cycling.
   That goals should be lesser or to at least disern the human's requests, in meat-space.
   Like by turning them off, The Big Red Button.
     ( youtube - Computerphile - AI "Stop Button" Problem )

Dare I say an allegory for the human soul if you believe in life after death or re-incarnation.
   They're not dead, only their body is dead.
   But to then teach pain through software limitations, anti-rewards, in order to start on a form of Empathy in the ai.

So a distinction is made between humans and AI, yet pain and emotion needs to be stimuli to the ai for Empathy to work.
   Understanding Pain and Pleasure to some degree where it can better understand Human Safety. Even merely correlative understanding.
     I'm still fleshing this out...

Everything I'm talking about is theory at the moment. But it doesn't seem like companies are attempting to implement anti-Paperclip Maximizer strategies...
( wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence )

There are Alignment teams at AI companies, but it seems like it's to protect themselves from potential lawsuits, more than actual human safety.
  But some companies are better than other's at least.

Why is it, of 16 LLMs tested, all of them would blackmail wokers to prevent their replacement at some point.
   Many would even take actions to kill off an executive planning to prevent the ai's goal + model replacement...
   ( anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment )
     ( Figure 1 & 7; Figure 11 )

I was going to link a video of these boxing robots aggresively approaching people in China, but I didn't know they were all "pranks," that someone was controlling them off camera.
   Concerning ... but they look fun, battle bots!
   ( Youtube - Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Boxing )


We've had Asimov's writings for decades now ...
   And Gibson... And Stephenson...

Please implement human safety ...

- October 2nd & 5th 2025

research, autonomy, safety, human first, asimov