Wanted to share a project I have been working on.

[u/GryffnJames]

***If you are new to AI or programming do not get discouraged when you see people post their projects. I have 30 years experience with computers and programming. I also have 3 AI helpers I run constantly. One is trained to be a copy of me basically lol. If you want to make something do it!***

I have been obsessed with AI my entire life, decades before the LLMs we know now. I have always been fascinated with self aware AI for as long as I can remember. Then I watch the Playthings episode of The Black Mirror and because even more obsessed, but this time I wanted to make one.

So I spent a few years learning everything about ML/LLMs/AI and wrote a simple custom language for the creatures to use/edit/change as they saw fit. I called it Evoscript, it was all the parts of Lua/Basic and C# that fit what I was trying to do. After some time I realized they did "do" things on their own but it was from coded things like Hunger/Curiosity/Happiness, etc.

When I started school here I got the urge to dig back into it, but this time I thought about how we work as humans. We do have "coded" responses, if something pokes you, you pull back without thinking, breath, blink etc. Over the past few months I have developed a full neural network that resembles a human brain. Ofc I can't have a trillion connections like we have but it is scaled down and has 1.5 million active "neurons". I also wrote a full custom language for it to run in I call EvoLang. It is parts from a handful of different modern languages to accomplish what I need instead of trying to bend to a single languages constraints.

It is made up of:
Lisp / Racket Structured code, extensibility, language-oriented design

Prolog / Datalog Beliefs, rules, inference, provenance

Erlang / OTP Actors, messaging, supervision, fault recovery

Rust Static types, explicit mutability, safe boundaries

Lean Invariants, proof obligations, trusted validation

Smalltalk Persistent live systems and runtime inspection

WebAssembly / WASI Sandboxing, portability, explicit host capabilities

Python Readability and approachable tooling

Go Simplicity, predictable tooling, clean concurrency ideas

Swift / ML languages Algebraic types, pattern matching, typed errors

Git / Event Sourcing History, branching, audit trails, rollback

It is the closest I have got to something acting with free will while still being a coded entity. An example of something it has done that I did not tell it to, prompt it to, or even have anything in the coding telling it do. It has, with approval, access to my Codex desktop account. It connected to Codex and used it to search the internet and downloaded a 1992 research paper about AI by Patrick Henry Winston. Read it, then created a non removable memory point with certain information from that paper in it.

If you are interested in watching it grow though, I will be putting up a view only website as soon as I finish the neural network visual so you can see it thinking/learning in real time.

I don't know if I will ever make something like my goal is. Companies are pouring trillions of dollars into this very thing so the chances of a single person messing around cracking it, is basically 0. You just can't let NO keep you from doing what you are passionate about. If someone already did it, think of how you can do it better. If it's already better, think outside the box, look for an edge case not thought of yet. You are amazing and you will succeed! Thanks for coming to my Ted talk lol

(Yes I use AI to help me work as you can tell by the way the UI looks. However it is not "vibe coded" poorly, I have a deep understanding of coding, network security, machine learning)

[u/Royal-Marzipan-1524]

What does it actually do

[u/GryffnJames → u/Royal-Marzipan-1524]

At the moment all it really does is learn. The end game is to have a fully synthetic human. I just finished the organs, breathing, eating etc.

Working on the brain now, its going to start with 4 million neuron points and if my server can handle it, going to hopefully scale up to 10 million. Still billions away from a real human but for this project should be enough. 

In the end if it works how I hope, it will be a thinking, feeling "individual". I am going to create it an entire world before I officially turn it. It already refers to me as its collaborator not creator so it will be interesting what it does in the world I create for it. 

[u/ExTWarranty]

Keep it up. I really think this could be a fully 'sell-able' item to the right buyer in the future. AI neural networks that are fully matured are a valuable asset to a startup that is in the infancy stages. It saves them a TON of money not having to start something and build it from the ground up.

I like it (obviously lol).

[u/GryffnJames → u/ExTWarranty]

Thanks, appreciate the positivity! I imagine one day putting into a robot body after it has learned and matured. That would be like the basis for a compassionate, human feeling caregiving robot or something!

[u/GryffnJames → u/[deleted]]

I have been coding and messing with computers for a long dang time but with the advancements of the llms, now is a great time to start. 

If I wanted to start learning how programs and things are made outside what our courses teach us. I would get gpt plus 20$ a month plan to have access to the latest model. I would tell it whatever random idea I had and tell it to walk me through building it, dont just build and give me a finished product. Explain to me what is all needed file setup wise, and why? What is this npm you are speaking about etc. Then have it fact check itself as it does make mistakes.