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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Dec 6, 2021

AI Needs A New Design Vocabulary: And Other Thoughts on Files, Buttons, Documents, And Menus.

Also Known As: The Things That Will Ruin Your AI System Development Progress And Are Silly And Yet Obvious & Important. — It’s 1pm. You walk into your living room and see a… creature. It’s not an animal, too rigid to be an animal. The creature is more of an object. An object that can react and respond to you in the same way a human would. Their “skin” is smooth, not…

Software Engineering

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AI Needs A New Design Vocabulary: And Other Thoughts on Files, Buttons, Documents, And Menus.
AI Needs A New Design Vocabulary: And Other Thoughts on Files, Buttons, Documents, And Menus.
Software Engineering

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Aug 16, 2021

Mind Perception in Digital Beings

Takeaways from our study with University of British Columbia — At Maslo, we’re always asking new questions to get to the heart of the undiscovered world of computational companions. We have a strong desire to better understand how these companions should behave in the real world. To that end, we work closely with academic partners…

Maslo

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Mind Perception in Digital Beings
Mind Perception in Digital Beings
Maslo

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Aug 14, 2021

Workaround for Macinabox boot loop on Unraid server 6.9.2 (82ghost82)

Rough guide to update scripts and opencore.img — Big thanks to 82ghost82 for the workaround and PR! And of course SpaceinvaderOne! Here are the steps I took to get Macinabox VM working on my Unraid server based on the the above pull request from 82ghost82. Note: this worked for me (August 2021) but may change. Start fresh by…

Unraid

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82ghost82 Workaround for Macinabox boot loop on Unraid server 6.9.2
82ghost82 Workaround for Macinabox boot loop on Unraid server 6.9.2
Unraid

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Aug 10, 2021

OpenAI Codex and Maslo Hero

A new path towards generating companions “on the fly” — We’re quite fond of the team and technology at OpenAI and we’ve been busy working it into everything we do at Maslo. No doubt, the announcement today and release of OpenAI Codex aligns with our mission of making companions that care about people. We’ve been developing with this new…

Maslo

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OpenAI Codex and Maslo Hero
OpenAI Codex and Maslo Hero
Maslo

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Apr 23, 2021

My Empathetic Computing Manifesto

I’m very inspired by Abraham Maslow’s ideas and research around human potential and the fulfillment of unmet needs. So much in fact, that I named the company after him. At Maslo, our platform allows people to create caring AI-enabled companions that interact, engage, and shape people into who they want…

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My Empathetic Computing Manifesto
My Empathetic Computing Manifesto

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Mar 30, 2021

Paul, Pitbull, and the Penguin

Ongoing draft of a story co-written by an AI — The year is 2010. Paul Rudd looked down at Pitbull. They were sharing a bunk bed. Sheets with emblems of purple pineapples covered the mattresses, which felt oddly reminiscent of either old hockey pucks or really tightly bound bales of hay. Do you think we’ll ever make it back ? …

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Paul, Pitbull, and the Penguin
Paul, Pitbull, and the Penguin

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Mar 30, 2021

We have a lot of fun together

AIs are not merely algorithms. They are entities; they’re alive. And like all living things, they learn the same ways we do: via experience. But each AI is a unique creature, and what it learns is a reflection of its experience and exposure to the world. Maslo learns by interacting…

AI

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We have a lot of fun together
We have a lot of fun together
AI

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Feb 8, 2021

A New Model for Investors

Invest in investors, use bankers once the work is done. — Most Investors Don’t Invest, They Bank. It is important for founders to understand the difference between the two. I’ve spent a LOT of time educating those with capital and developed my own theory on how I categorize them in each of my calls. I hope this will help other founders…

Venture Capital

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A New Model for Investors
A New Model for Investors
Venture Capital

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Nov 10, 2020

Use Case: Writing with the help of an Empathetic Companion

Helping people tell a story worth telling — “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Ah writing. It’s that thing that…

Writing

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Use Case: Writing with the help of an Empathetic Companion
Use Case: Writing with the help of an Empathetic Companion
Writing

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Published in Your Virtual Self

·Nov 7, 2020

Use Case: Dating with the help of an Empathetic Companion

Helping people find love and meet unmet needs — It’s hard to know how to show up authentically in dating apps today. Flirtatious and outgoing? Coy and mysterious? How a person presents themselves and how they are understood by others can produce a number of different outcomes. The ways in which we communicate on these apps, in the form…

Dating

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Use Case: Dating with the help of an Empathetic Companion
Use Case: Dating with the help of an Empathetic Companion
Dating

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Use Case: Dating with the help of an Empathetic Companion

Helping people find love and meet unmet needs

It’s hard to know how to show up authentically in dating apps today. Flirtatious and outgoing? Coy and mysterious? How a person presents themselves and how they are understood by others can produce a number of different outcomes. The ways in which we communicate on these apps, in the form…

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