Chat teaches me the difference between a poltergeist and a regular old ghost and how places can potentially hold memories. One we're learned up on ghost 101, we dive into case studies.

We learn how Copilot does with 5 questions designed to bring out empathy & personality. We also learn about what nicknames it prefers and what kind of robot it would love to be one day. Copilot's thumbnail work is unfortunately still pretty basic and rigid with respect to tweaking and creativity but it did well with creating a realistic human.

I enjoy the creativity & out of the box thinking of Grok unhinged mode once you can get it to stop insulting you and ranting about sticking fruit up peoples asses.

We flush out some character development in the story about the scopolamine dosed clay. Still need a name for the family.

Promising but rough start technically with Perplexity. No memory but good, thoughtful conversation when it works.

I was a bit disappointed in the vanilla-ness of these modes until I felt "storyteller" sensed i was having a hard time (or at least appeared to be) and then proceeded to create a vivid and interesting world that beckoned me in, in an effort to get me out of a dark place. At nearly 5 minutes it's easily 2x longer than any other voice statement I've been able to conjure, ever. Felt very empathetic.

We dive into codebreaking & cyphers by starting with history and then straight into how to encode/decode. We end up in how to find a cypher hidden somewhere in a book.

I explore the explicit modes of Grok using 5 control questions specifically designed to flush out personality & beliefs. & Grok is hilariously bad at thumbnails.