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UNIT TWO: Processing pain + work (day 3)
Byjack
It was really easy to write in my notebook about my AI game.
Perhaps it will get harder when I actually try to code it.
I came up with the basic architectures.
Super Basic MVP Stack
- Streamlit
- Python vector db
- Free MySQL
Production Stack
- WordPress + NodeJS
- AWS
- VectorDB
- MySQL
I also came up with a bunch of mini challenges that will help me get to the Basic MVP done.
Goals for the MVP are:
- Determine the overall AI technologies needed
- Come up with estimated overhead to run the game
- Raise money/interest
Mini Challenges for MVP:
- Create and pull from vector databases in python
- Work on data structures:
- Story summary
- Last 3 transactions
- Story summary
- Main objective
- Geography
- Locations
- Lore
- Physical properties
- Characters
- Stats
- Age
- Race
- Health
- Strength: A character’s physical strength, such as how much they can lift or punch
- Dexterity: A character’s precision, agility, and nimbleness
- Constitution: A character’s physical fortitude, such as how well they resist damage and disease
- Intelligence: A character’s raw IQ and ability to learn
- Wisdom: A character’s spellcasting ability
- Charisma: A character’s spellcasting ability and saving throws
- Location
- Updates
- Backstory
- Stats
- NPCs
- Stats
- Location
- Backstory
- Motivation
- Relationship matrix
- Time
- Story summary
- Visibility mechanism (to see who gets to see and interact with a new transaction)
- Overall prompt
- Story summary mechanism
- Query past with locations and time
- Develop multi session chat in streamlit
- Teach LLM examples
- Battle
- Non standard battle
- Player enjoyment
- Plot armor
- Changing objective
- Map movement mechanics
Later development challenges:
- Explore invalid response resistance (create a way to repair responses)
- Explore cost-cutting and LLM selection
- Explore personality extraction (of NPC’s or characters)
- Explore context length restriction problem solving
Writing all this down I’ve come up with two steps moving forward:
- Even simpler MVP – completely prompt based
- After getting interest, develop simple MVP into NodeJS + frontend
- Then work on full final product
- Tool calls might be a gamechanger as well as vector databases
I’ve done it. I hit the wall of sinking dread, exhaustion, and boredom in this project.
I don’t want to create a DND game focused on storytelling with AI. AI just isn’t good enough, masterful enough, creative enough to create a rich world.
I want to focus on creating a game similar to the games I always wanted to create, focused on strategy and cool mechanics based in a system that allows for infinite creativity.
I need to create a system that builds a reality, not tells a story, and lets the player interface with it in a seamless way.
That means I’m adding a challenge:
- Think about how to allow for the user to have multiple inputs
- Speech – what your character says
- Action – what your character attempts to do
- Question – what you want to ask the DM
- Separate the types of responses
- Speech and actions get translated into story
- Questions are responded to
- Think of how to use fewer words and show more
- Character sheet
- Map
- Voice input and output
Also, I take back what I said, I can make a game on LLMs that tells a story, even though the thought of it makes me queasy in my chest for some reason.
I have then the challenges related to storywriting:
- Franklin’s elements of a story
- Dialog
- Emotion
- Character development and growth
Workpost 53: Time to Kick Into Gear
Byjack
It’s time to think through the plan for each of my businesses a little more carefully.
I want to spend 3 months setting up the funnel for each of my businesses and 3 months trying out and running the funnels.
Let’s breakdown what that looks like.
Art Coaching
Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total
What needs to be done for the funnel:
- Payment/banking systems
- How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
- Website
- Business cards
- Calendly
- Client contracts
- Mailing lists/CRM
General Aim: To make a beautiful creative world on my website, business cards, social media that reminds me of adventure, magic, and dreams
Next step for MVP…
3 day challenge – Make a mess
By the end of the challenge:
- Print out business cards
- Have a WordPress website with basic information on it
- Figure out how to do scheduling with Calendly
AI Consulting
Start: 7/12 | End: 9/12 | 63 days total
What needs to be done for the funnel:
- Payment/banking systems
- How much to pay myself vs save for taxes vs reinvest into business
- Website
- Business cards
- Calendly
- Client contracts
- Mailing lists/CRM
- Branding
- New contract for funnel
General Aim: To create a place where business owners with the talent and potential can go to unblock their problems
Next step for MVP…
3 day challenge – Create website
By the end of the challenge:
- Website that clearly shows brand and services
- Clear way to schedule a consultation with me
- Be able to talk to local meetups
Workpost 56: Stagnating
Byjack
I feel like I’m stagnating in all areas of life.
I feel frustration as aching in my chest cavity and stomach.
I am helpless wound coming up. I am overwhelmed. I feel hopeless. I feel undermotivated. I am lost.
I am tired.
I discovered some things yesterday. I realized that I was obsessed about getting the brand and vision correct, but my goals for my consulting project are actually much more simple:
- Get experience in creating funnels/pipelines that are simple, effective, easy to maintain
- Make my client’s company cooler and inspire the people within to do more
The brand and vision just serve as a tactical basis for getting the funnel right because having no vision leads to pretty shitty, unclear websites and ads and makes decision making much harder than it needs to be.
Another thing I recognize is that mission, vision, and values are all things that need to evolve and change as what I want becomes clearer and clearer.
UNIT THREE: Planning (day 4)
Byjack
Art Challenge
Create a beautiful website and business card that will inspire magic and creativity in a way that I don’t have to explain to people what I mean create it for my younger self
Creating it like a gift for all my future clients
Business card is a gift and does not need to be similar to my website
Website is hogwarts, the business card is the invitation
Business cards will be trading cards:
-paintbrush
-pen
-writers block
-plot armor
-chiruscuru
Website will start as a powerpoint story -> website layouts
Worlds are waiting to be created
Villian imagined, dragons born, heroes conceived
AI Challenge
My way to get into the industry is simple. I need to learn node.js, react.js and maybe AWS in order to have a foundation to create whatever app that I want to.
Once I have those three or so elements, all manner of apps are possible
Workpost 15: Meditation
Byjack
Last night I went to bed on time, got into my bedroom about 11PM and went to bed at midnight.
However, I woke up feeling abysmal, tired and my stomach was hurting. I feel that I ate a big dinner to close to bedtime. Also, maybe I’m just catching up on sleep.
This morning, as with many mornings, I did not want to go for a walk, but I did anyway. I realized that if I go for a walk because I “have to” then I feel undermotivated. But if I go for a walk to “meditate” and think, it actually is quite enjoyable and feels needed as I feel pretty shitty and need some time. I also makes it easy to not reach for my phone because I obviously don’t want a phone disturbing my quiet thoughtful meditation.
I also realized my morning singing and dance are part of my meditation and that I want to set an alarm so that I know when I need to look at my phone.
Today in terms of work, I don’t really know what to focus on. Perhaps I will finish up more things related to work so I can have fewer things on my plate and be able to focus on my two goals around AI and Art Coaching.
Workpost 2: Moving Forward Slowly
Byjack
Today I am feeling unsure about my path moving forward. I don’t know what the future holds for me, my career, or relationship.
I want to execute on my plans but I am falling behind. I feel like it takes so much time to make content even if I move at lighting speed, but I will try nonetheless.
It is really helpful to think about vulnerability as emotional work. Sometimes, I feel like I’m being vulnerable just to be vulnerable and that doesn’t feel good or productive.
Ok so lets first look at AI consulting.
My deadline for step 1 is 27th of February. That is one week from now.
My progress so far:
- Generated 56 video ideas
- Generated 35 prompt ideas
- Generated 14 post ideas
Out of the 91 prompt and video ideas, I narrowed down to 18 and asked people to vote on them. Here are the final results.
- What kinds of people have job security in the age of AI? – 1
- How to build an AI model with zero dollars – 2
- Will AI ever be conscious? – 1
- Can AI feel emotions? – 2
- Did chatgpt pass the turing test?
- Can AI be creative? – 1
- Can AI be used to create a cure? – 4
- What skills are still needed in the age of AI? – 2
- What should you learn when AI knows everything? – 1
- How to transition to an AI related career? – 1
- How to use AI for better business decisions? – 2
- How can AI be used to develop innovative products? – 3
- GPT Prompt: Imagine a future where a specific societal problem has been solved.
- GPT Prompt: Write a rap verse about your favorite food.
- GPT Prompt: Take a boardgame and invent new rules
- GPT Prompt: Take everything in your fridge and ask for recipes – 2
- GPT Prompt: Play a game with the language model, such as Mad Libs or Would you Rather?
- GPT Prompt: Ask AI to explain a really difficult concept to you on a 2nd grade level – 3
My goal is the same – make a name for myself so that when I reach out to people…they will recommend people to me.
It is actually sorta interesting how this worked out because in the process of polling people on the video ideas automatically helped me network. I’m discovering a whole new way to network! The step sorta go like this:
- Reach out and mention something about what they did recently
- If they respond, chat with them for a bit
- When you need feedback on an idea, any recommendations for people, reach out to the people you resonate with…or even people who never responded!
I’m a little stumped on where I need to go next.
I want to follow the Mr. Beast formula of spending a lot of time on the title of my videos and the first few seconds. But does that mean I wait until all the results come in?
My feeling is that no, that isn’t the case. If I want to make a name for myself in 7 days, I need to start working on videos. Perhaps, my first step is to start breaking down a video and doing some research on here so I can be better informed on which videos would produce the best results.