Who: Creative XR theatre lab Produced Moon
When: Monday 10th November, 14:00-15:00 (+ all day on 11th-12th November in EFI 3.63 for drop in)
Where: EFI 1.60 and online
Abstract
Produced Moon are developing Glory Mold: 2084, a speculative sci-fi project about a future world where humans live alongside a slime mold artificial intelligence. With Glory Mold we challenge the widespread adoption of AI in its current form, using immersion and play to explore how AI could develop differently. We developed a prototype of the project at the Watershed last year, which you can watch a video about here.
At the centre of the installation sits the character Glory Mold. Glory Mold is run through an AI chatbot connected to a wider ‘internet of things’ system, which allows the character to respond to multiple types of input – keyboard, phone buttons and sensors, and express through various outputs – via written text, LED lights and by playing audio files.
In this workshop we’ll present an overview of the project and share the AI character in its current form. Then we’ll dig into the AI chatbot at the core of the installation, exploring how it could develop and change.
Currently our character runs using:
- A Llama3 model with Langchain, which the character uses to process input and respond to questions
- A Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) database, which acts as a form of memory
- Keyword triggers for integration with the Internet of Things system – essentially this allow Glory Mold translate a variety of inputs into a variety of outputs, all running through the central AI system.
With the workshop we want to explore how we might be able to develop our system:
- Currently answers are too long and often repetitive: are there other LLMs we should consider?
- The RAG is inconsistent, with some information accepted, and other parts ignored: how can we develop our approaches to informing the character of their memory and shaping their character voice and style of response?
- Are there other models or systems that might help us better embrace and embed the decentralised, ecological, plural nature of Glory Mold?
We’d love to connect with researchers, programmers, academics, and creatives interested in the world of Glory Mold, environmental ethics, decolonial approaches to AI development and the role of citizen engagement and co-production in shaping AI futures.
We hope you can join us! If you have any questions about the workshop or the project, do get in touch with Mel from Produced Moon on melanie@producedmoon.co.uk. We will be at EFI from 10th -12th November developing our chatbot – if you can’t make the workshop but are interested in supporting us or have any advice to give please come and join us another time. Just pop us an email.
