It was last year when I got the idea of an interactive storytelling platform powered by AI. It was in preparation for the lablab.ai Google Vertex AI Hackathon. I don't remember being intoxicated when I thought how absolutely knarly it would be to live inside the world of Dune. There is so many aspects to the world of Harry Potter, Starwars, Game of Thrones etc. that I would love to explore! So I thought to myself if Generative AI could actually be a good use case for this.

Since then, I have been entertaining this idea and floating it to whomever I can get to listen. I had to brainstorm for the hackathon but I couldn't really do anything back then. I have annoying little knowledge of how these software systems work in a deeper level. So I have been investing time learning these thing. I have a top down approach to learning things. Before just hitting a book and studying I like getting a feel for the community and the ecosystem around what what I am learning. So I went to Amsterdam UX contestable AI lecture, Rotterdam AI workshops, Bunq AI Hackathon, GraphSummit BeNeLux and recently Python Open Source Sprints. I am also, again, starting a new Google Cloud Get Certified program(Professional Data Engineer). I have gained a lot of knowledge and insights. So now I start building.

Yes, that is correct, I learn as I build. That's about the only way I can concentrate enough to learn. And this blog post is sort of my commitment to learn. I would like to do a few more practical - hands on events while gearing up. But the rough ideas I have right now is centered around knowledge graphs and RAG. I would build out a system where a "writer" can come build a story, world, and its characters. The system turns these into some form of structured knowledge. Next, I could ground my LLM to only generate within the confines of these universes. The generated media would- then need to be presented to the end user in an app that creates the perfect UX for emersion within this dynamically generating universe.

As I am trying to make obvious through this blog post, I would be building this in public. So expect regular updates from me. Could be blogs, or even X/Instagram/LinkedIn posts. I would love to create an open source business model around this. I would love this to be a tool for writers to use and then pay for when they are big enough. There are of course a plethora of challenges to what I'm trying to build but the only way I would ever go about building this is by bootstrapping it. The building in open movement is something that I resonate with a lot and I am glad that I am at this point in my life when I am starting this.

So, can you get involved? NO! I am done announcing projects, getting people involved and then having to abandon it. The latest victim to this pattern of mine is The Neighbourhood. But I am now an acolyte at the church of getting shit done(read the manifesto!). So I am going to build out a structure first. Build ways to on-board people and get them contributing. When I get a feel for this I will let you know.