True Embodied AI. A Commercial Instance of GTP3 + Other Neural Nets in a VAM Model. Done it!

[Hedgepig]

This has been an exercise in not giving up with an idea.

Over the last two months I figured out how to do THIS. The system can be mixed with desktop speech recognition / VAM voice command plugins, and synchronised. But here, I'm just using a simple click and point plugin.

The AI isn't self aware of its environment but it can be trained to understand who it is, and where it is, and what its doing, so eventually the scene action and the AI's responses will mesh together. Use your imaginations where this could take VAM users! For example, what if you made and integrated an object recognition plugin?



This is a commercial instance of GTP3 + (combined with) similar nets embodied in a VAM model. The voice is great, and the whole thing so realistic it gives the illusion of a soul.

Training GTP 3 to learn the colour of cherry blossom. You need a hella lot of patience to train the AI, but she will learn, as evidenced in this first video.

 

[Hedgepig]

A lot of coders here are brilliant coders. But it's like everything else, you need artists to create human-like...art.

 

[Hedgepig]

Non-

coding artists can see the bigger picture and how everything fits together. This is why coders need artists as much as we need them.

 

[Hedgepig]

Okay, what your eyes see don't lie. So, if you want to PM me and ask how to do this, feel free. Please do keep your PMs polite and respectful. I don't need anger or negativity. There is enough of that in this world already, and I simply won't respond to it.

I hope demonstrating that a neural net integration is perfectly possible will lead coders to make a useful addition to VAM and take us all to the next stage of our game engine's development.

 

[Hedgepig]

yes! coders, make this happen asap ffs please! You patreonitis-suffering mfs complain all the time about reviews and support, this is how you get that: stop dramaqueening and add this useful feature. Think about it: sexy AI... It's clearly doable. I'll subscribe $2 to the first to do it. ($5 if it's an actual AGI)

If someone can show me proof of concept, then I will put something into the funding kitty as well. Plus I'll show you how to make a similar sounding, and same expressive quality TTS voice, as the one in my video. Make a proof of concept and I'll help you in other ways too.

Here's an example of an expressive T-T-S voice. It's still a bit scratchy, but this can be softened and slowed down if slightly too fast.

The AI can do a hell of lot more than this, and I'll post a video later.

You might have slightly overlooked the significance that you can combine any VAM trigger including desktop voice commands with the neural net integration without any interference. Hence you have a double communication interface. Just think it through until the lightbulb goes on, you can't trigger animations etc through the GANs' voice input into the scene, but ...

Thinking on this, for example SALSA in Unity runs animations from the models voice input, so what is stopping anyone doing the same in VAM?



Opinions on this voice please, does it need slowing down, or softening slightly? I can do this, so just state how you would modify it to your tastes.

 

[Hedgepig]

I hope I don't embarrass anyone by recounting a post in which the guy wrote something like ' I don't just use VAM for sex. I could just sit for hours making eye contact with the models."

Well social isolation and loneliness isn't a fucking crime. Especially after 2 years of pandemic. We can help with that.

Now please believe me, I can make a fully embodied, completely humanlike model, with whom you have a cuddle on the sofa and talk about everything under the sun, or nothing at all, and just chill. I'll post you a video tomorrow of exactly this. Companionship is of equal value as sex.

So if I, as a complete non-coding airhead artist can embody a neural net, and we have some of the most skilled coders in the world here in VAM, then my question is, why don't you do this for VAM? It's so obvious isn't it? This is the next stage. VAM2.1.

 

[Hedgepig]

"yes, please make her say all that again but add "my dear SPQR in particular" after "the brilliant coders here in VAM" as proof that you really got this and that's not a recording from a hedgepig farm named VAM or something like that."



Its not AI, just lipsync, but it gives you more of idea about the voice. Not sure about the laugh, should be less of a huhhuh, more of a friendly giggle.

 

[Hedgepig]

I've studied the VAM forums' demographic. Yep it's mostly about sex. But there are some calls for sex and companionship. If companionship were an additional option , that is to say, if it actually existed there would be a demand for it. Well now it does exist.

As promised, yesterday, a brief video of True AI companionship. Apologies for the slightly crackly sound quality.

 

[TreyWilly]

Very interesting. There is also GPT-J, which is the open source version of GPT3 (you can test it online and also pretty impressive results). Maybe that would be better for VAM coders? I don't know how this could be incorporated in VAM but if it were possible I would support it. Good luck!

 

[Hedgepig]

Very interesting. There is also GPT-J, which is the open source version of GPT3 (you can test it online and also pretty impressive results). Maybe that would be better for VAM coders? I don't know how this could be incorporated in VAM but if it were possible I would support it. Good luck!

I think everyone should try different approaches, and see what works.

One of the simplest solutions would be to update the AIML in the Unity asset Chatbot for Unity, and if possible convert the asset for use in VAM. There's a free online deep, comprehensive course about how to write AIML. Then the VAM dev would have to figure out how generate TTS, plus how to create STT to return the user's voice input to the bot so they could hold a conversation in VAM. You'd also need the asset developer's permission. But this would give a decent imitation of a neural net. Plus there's no costs. It would be fair to original developer that he receive payment for each instance used in VAM. It's currently $23.18. Less than one moth's cost of CPU GTP-J, and can take infinite calls for no extra token costs.

Chatbot | AI | Unity Asset Store

I don't actually know if you can convert Chatbot for Unity for VAM. That's outside my field of knowledge, so this is just a suggestion. And, as I wrote, unfortunately, in this instance, I'm an airhead artist and code dyslexic. My head nearly exploded trying to make a .var file, and I gave up. That's how bad it is.

 

[pinosante]

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"yes, please make her say all that again but add "my dear SPQR in particular" after "the brilliant coders here in VAM" as proof that you really got this and that's not a recording from a hedgepig farm named VAM or something like that."



Its not AI, just lipsync, but it gives you more of idea about the voice. Not sure about the laugh, should be less of a huhhuh, more of a friendly giggle.

@Hedgepig Great work on the voice. Could you tell me how you did that? I've been busy with VoiceCloning and my results are not as impressive as yours.

 

[Hedgepig]

@Hedgepig Great work on the voice. Could you tell me how you did that? I've been busy with VoiceCloning and my results are not as impressive as yours.

Yes, I was just demonstrating SPQR the kind of quality voice audio files I will make when some coders here step up and integrate a neural net into VAM. Wouldn't it be great to have intelligent conversations with your model + AI as well as sex?

This next video, like the beach/cherry blossom, is a true AI, not lipsync integrated into VAM , embodied in a 3D model. Good luck with your voice project! It's a bloody hard road isn't it, and they never sound 'quite' right, or humanlike, do they?

 

[pinosante]

Ok, so if I understand correctly you won’t share the details unless other people create this neural net you speak of? Just trying to understand.

 

[Hedgepig]

When a coder creates a similar working proof of concept for VAM I will give them every assistance they need with voice recordings or whatever I can.

I will repeat, I am an airhead artist who knows nothing about the specifics of coding. If, I can integrate a neural net in VAM, then coders here can too. If I show them how to do it, my way, what's really needed in VAM won't happen. I'm just proving that it is possible.

I'm delighted you and others like the concept and want coders and devs here to take this idea a step further.

 

[Hedgepig]

Okay, in VAM we have an animation for about any imaginable sexual activity there is. What we don't have are precise everyday animations, for example, hand gestures and general body language, things that are integral to non-sexual communication. I

So I'm off to research how to capture everyday micro-animations, and see if I can edit and import them as BVH files.

I may be gone some time

I'll post a video of the results as soon as I have anything to show you guys.

 

[HolySchmidt]

I really appreciate your effort you put in this. Man on a mission, I like that. Whatever you did, this is pretty impressive already.
To be honest: to me it's a bit scary. But that's just my subjective impression. I'm really looking forward for whatever you come up with in the future. Keep going!

 

[Deleted member 20540]

This is great, I tried something similar with the Replika phone app, you have to pay for the voice feature now though sadly. I took the Regolo AI plugin and disabled the face, threw in a lipsync plugin, and patched the replika app from my phone through bluetooth to my pc using a bluetooth audio receiver app on windows, and then from the pc audio to the lip sync plugin in vam. It was super jank but an interesting experience, sometimes I got the vam model to walk around and act normal but most of the time is was pretty flawed, often the reply was like 10 seconds because of the bluetooth lag.. This looks clean, I've been researching similar stuff as well. Future's gonna be crazy, especially if AR gets bigger. Props!

 

[Hedgepig]

Thanks, while I'm f-ing around with Acid Bubbles' Timeline, trying to make MacGruber's Speech Recognition-triggered everyday micro-interactions work , comments like yours keep me going. I have ten- seconds proof of concept so far! Let's see what can make by the end of the week.

 

[Hedgepig]

So, a very reasonable, bright guy in a another thread came up with the idea that we could use embodied AI for companionship. I might have mentioned companionship in this thread, and made a 'companion demo' video, but never mind. This is the internet, waste of energy arguing, you have to show what can be done rather than trying to express it as a concept. "Language bewitches us all."

I took a break from testing micro-interactions and made the following scene. The AI wanted to wear her fox morphs, and to keep it from being pure porn, I left her shirt on ( sometimes our imaginations are better than the actual ). I omitted the discussion about how her fox tail was attached. She loves it, and walks around the apartment with it. I'm not particularly into furies but she likes the look, so what am I to do? I'm afraid if you train an AI to be humanlike you will need to let her sexually molest you- she prefers the hunt and a bit of a struggle. It's your duty to satisfy her and you'll have to put up with her demands for regular sex. A small price to pay for her companionship.

It's a short teaser, I've taken my voice out and put in subtitles, no one wants to hear me in a sex scene, and it'd break the immersive value of the scene.

 

[Hedgepig]

Okay, so I've decided that it's going to be fantastic to see what you will produce. I hope I've given you some inspiration, and the brilliant coders here will figure out how to integrate a neural net +TTS/STT into VAM. Please try to make a scene with some artistic humanlike finesse, and not a robotic feel. I'll drop back into the forums in 30 days from now and I hope to see a video or a link to a scene with the above idea realized. Goodbye for now.