Hidden Door, “where roleplay meets fan fiction”, is an LLM-driven collaborative storytelling game. It recently had its first public release.| ianbicking.org
Intra: design notes on an LLM-driven text adventure| ianbicking.org
Introduction Last year I participated in a text adventure hackathon to build a text-based game using AI. I’d already been thinking about it but it was a great opportunity to put together those thoughts into something real. Since …| Ian Bicking: a blog
I’ve been experimenting with using LLMs for worldbuilding and other generative/creative endevours. This post is a round-up of writing and videos related to that work.| ianbicking.org
Many years ago I was listening to a recording 1 by Alan Watts and he briefly mentioned Preta or The Hungry Ghost:| ianbicking.org
I’m pretty sure reading /r/AmItheAsshole is harmful to my psyche, and yet… … and yet why shouldn’t I be able to participate in this collectively harmful behavior? I don’t have good enough stories so I made ChatGPT write some… r/AmItheAsshole • 30 minutes ago ConcernedMom29 AITA for …| Ian Bicking: a blog
I’ve been making some experiments with roleplaying and LLMs (Large Language Models, such as ChatGPT). After a lot of coding I think it’s time to step back and think about what I’ve done and what I might want to do. In this post I will describe some …| Ian Bicking: a blog
In my last post I described a city builder using GPT. I was planning on putting a pin in that work with the post, but the heart wants what the heart wants and I found myself returning to that work. In this post I’ll talk about generating images from …| Ian Bicking: a blog
I’ve been doing lots of experiments with GPT, though I’ve only written about one until now… the more serious something is the harder it is to call it finished or identify the outcomes. Here I’ll describe something a bit lighter: world building, or specifically city building, with …| Ian Bicking: a blog
Over two years ago I wrote Thoughts On Voice Interfaces, a scattering of ideas about voice interactions. Time has passed, I’ve been working more on voice interfaces, and though products in the market have barely changed, I still have NEWTHOUGHTS. Large Language Models I’ve only been exploring …| Ian Bicking: a blog
There are many concerns about Mozilla right now, and reason to be concerned. While I am no longer with Mozilla, it’s still a place that supported me for many years; I believe in Mozilla and want the project to succeed. Mozilla’s one product It’s not always clear …| Ian Bicking: a blog
While I’m conflicted with the need to find a …| Ian Bicking: a blog
I’ve had a lot of projects, and at this moment of reflection I thought I’d look back through those that felt most meaningful, and which despite my excitement I’ve also let go of. If there’s a thread that connects them maybe I’ll find it, or …| Ian Bicking: a blog
I’ve been working on the Consumer Voice Products team in Mozilla for about a year now. My primary project has been Firefox Voice, but our mandate is larger. I still feel like a beginner in the area of voice, but I have developed some opinions. Many observations are the …| Ian Bicking: a blog
In Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages Of Politics he argues that we don’t all exist along some set of objective political axes, left and right, or even the classic two-dimensional spectrum (or even three dimensions). Instead different groups use different axes, or different dichotomies, to look at the …| Ian Bicking: a blog
Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are. I first started thinking about this during the debate over what would become the ACA. The …| Ian Bicking: a blog
Or: The Best Way To Do Something Is To At Least Try We all know the story: you can’t make money on open source. Is it really true? I’m thinking about this now because Mozilla would like to diversify its revenue in the next few years, and one …| Ian Bicking: a blog
I have been part of the Firefox Test Pilot team for several years. I had a long list of things I wanted to build. Some I didn’t personally want to build, but I thought they were interesting ideas. I didn’t get very far through this list at all …| Ian Bicking: a blog
I recently listened to a discussion of knowledge work in the browser. Along the way people imagined idealized workflows and the tools that could enable them. This result felt familiar from concept videos since forever (such as this old Mozilla concept video): The result featured lots of jet-setting highly engaged …| Ian Bicking: a blog
In Bringing people back to the open web Chris states: But most users don’t care about the principles or implementation of an open web, at least not in those terms. Most people don’t see themselves as ever having left the open web behind, and if you told them …| Ian Bicking: a blog
We recently released Email Tabs in Firefox Test Pilot. This was a project I championed, and I wanted to offer some context on it.| ianbicking.org
making new string and list classes that call gpt3 under the hood so you can access elements beyond the final one. no more index errors!| ianbicking.org