AI Tamagotchi: Why I Built an AI That Starts Blank and Grows With You

What is communication for? Is it for exchanging information, for building relationships, for sharing knowledge, for collaborating on projects, for solving problems together? I would like to put forward the argument that communication's primary goal is to hear your own thoughts spoken out aloud, to externalize them, to make sense of them and as a result consolidate them. All of those other things, whilst beneficial, are secondary. I see AI as an additional way to improve the externalization of our thoughts and to consolidate our thoughts and experience. But in order for that to happen the AI must be able to remember and learn from our interactions. They must be able to build a model of who we are, what we're working on, and what matters to us. They must be able to evolve and grow and keep up with our thoughts. They must be able to understand the context and respond intelligently. Contextual Intelligence System 1 / System 2 — System 1 thinking is fast, intuitive, non-deterministic. Syste