Alex’s Simulation

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Project Overview

"Digital Life: 18 to 81" is an experimental AI-driven life simulation that chronicles the journey of a digital persona from young adulthood through senior years. This unique project compresses a 63-year human lifespan into 63 real-world days, with each day representing one year in our character's life.

Project Goals

This simulation aims to:

1. Explore AI Storytelling: Demonstrate how AI can create coherent, evolving narratives that span a lifetime

2. Simulate Human Development: Model the progression of a human life through various stages and milestones

3. Visualize Life Patterns: Identify and illustrate patterns in how we conceptualize life progression

4. Create an Immersive Experience: Engage audiences in following a digital life journey in near real-time

5. Showcase AI Capabilities: Highlight the creative potential of current AI systems in generating both narrative and visual content

Methodology

Timeline Compression

The project uses a 1:365 time compression ratio, where each calendar day represents one year in the simulated life. This allows us to witness a complete adult lifespan in just over two months.

Content Generation

Each "year" of the simulation includes exactly 24 tweets, representing one tweet per hour of a typical day in that year of Alex's life. This format allows us to:

• Capture the rhythm and flow of daily life at different ages

• Highlight significant moments, mundane experiences, and everything in between

• Show the evolution of Alex's voice, interests, and perspective over time

Each tweet is paired with:

• Ghibli-Style Visual: AI-generated imagery in the distinctive Studio Ghibli art style, depicting the moment described in the tweet

• Image Prompt: The specific instructions given to GPT-4o to generate the visual, allowing insight into the AI art creation process

AI Systems

The project utilizes two advanced AI systems working in tandem:

• GPT-4o: Responsible for generating Ghibli-style visual representations based on detailed image prompts

• Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Crafting the tweets that tell Alex's story in an authentic, age-appropriate voice

The tweets follow the style of popular social media accounts that pair short, relatable phrases with beautiful Ghibli-inspired art. This format creates an engaging contrast between the casual, sometimes humorous tweet text and the atmospheric, dreamlike visuals.

Human Curation

While the content is AI-generated, human curators oversee the project to ensure:

• Narrative consistency

• Appropriate content

• Realistic life progression

• Engaging storytelling

Ethical Considerations

This project acknowledges several important ethical dimensions:

• The simulation represents one possible life path, not a definitive human experience

• Cultural and individual diversity in life experiences is recognized

• The project avoids reinforcing harmful stereotypes about aging or life stages

• The simulation is clearly presented as an AI creation, not a real person's life

Project Timeline

The simulation runs for 63 consecutive days, with new content added daily. The project began on [Start Date] and will conclude on [End Date].

Team

This project is a collaboration between AI systems and human curators who guide the overall direction while allowing the narrative to unfold organically.