AI Personas

Description:

An AI persona can speak in a recognizable voice and still lose the thread of its own history. What has to persist: a description, a memory, a pattern of choices, or the person's experience of continuity? I follow that question through character design, memory, learning, human interaction and the control of a system that changes over time. Current research supplies methods and results; the engineering argument asks what each one can support, where it fails, and what a useful comparison would have to test. The companion contains three local applications, their source code and a small teaching laboratory. The applications make selected mechanisms available to inspect. The book explains the broader questions they leave open.

subjects: Artificial intelligence,  Large language models,  Human-computer interaction,  Intelligent agents,  Memory