[Entry 005]
[“Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes playing in the background]
“Now, you may be thinking, how does one teach an AI to speak without a database? It turns out that songs really are a great source for large language model training material, as long as you don’t mind the AI “singing” along in the phrases it uses to respond to you.”
[Song changes to “Bodies” by Drowning Pool, AI can be heard in the background, singing along with far too much enthusiasm]
“Okay! Let’s skip that one! Look, the only playlists I could find were pretty ancient, I was actually lucky to find any with sentence structure. Thank goodness for old school classics. Maybe I can find some nice, non-violent, book recordings and try them next.”
“Good news, I found more history books on someone’s personal computer and a few movies, thank you Eddie of Deck C for choosing 1234 as your password. This should be enough to get a usable large language model for our budding AI friend. Today has been a fairly easy day. All systems stayed in the green except for a secondary thruster which I will fix after I get some sleep.”
[“Sweet dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree?”]
“Couldn’t have said it better myself buddy. Vega out.”
Project Icarus 