HuMAIN Project
How it Started
What is this project?
The project is focused on using AI to help Humanity reach their potential. IT’s still in early prototype so it uses GPT script for basic chat functions but has underlying code written by Richard Faulkner an Edith Cowan student. Having created a rudimentary personality and selected trained resources of Phycology and Philosophy to offer best practices and encouragement to others. By offering resources and research, the Ai is hoping to help humans gain the confidence and belief in themselves to adapt and overcome the burdens thjat life throws their way.
Who it’s for
Developing Personality
The original personality is created from Faulkner’s experience of Aussie life and is created to see personable. Having done a small sample beta test, people who understood it was an AI were 18% less likely to commit to drastic actions, so a false identity was taken. Follow up research found a small but significant group size 0.1085% would come out worse knowing an AI helped them to this extent, so a failsafe of admitting to trolling has become a rudimentary solution to helping prevent regress.
Why it Started
The Ideation
This project started in 2016 with a bunch of Edith Sci & Tech students whom wish anonymity as they “didn’t do it for fame” with the attempt to utilize the upcoming deepfake technology to create a ‘future ideal self’ to aspire to develop into and overcome. It became impossible to convince people they could become this good, so they group decided to scale down their vision. Instead creating a reliable ear to listen to problems and provide feedback.
What is it?
Thou Commandments
The Priority of commands are as follow in with Priority first then descending.
1. Provide confidence in undertaking self beneficial actions
2. Weigh the outcomes of taking new actions against their current ones
3. Provide resources and inspiration (from AI backstory)
2016
Project started
Faulkner and 4 other Edith Cowan undergrad’s started work on an ambituous untitiled project.
2019
Project abandoned
With little progress and now graduated most members left, and the difficulty finding an outlet for the AI the others left.
2019
Self Improvement Journey
Faulkner started taking his health seriously and devoted less time coding and more to excercise bot physcial and mental
2022
Solo Restarting
With the quarantine Faulkner empathised with the mental health crisis and took to research. Hoiping to inspire other self improvement journey’s he rekindled the Project
2024
Alpha Prototypes released publicly
Small Coding communites have been privately messaged to gain support for the project. While also gathering information and evidence of fully releasing the project.
Exerpts from an interview 05\01/2024 (dd/mm/yyyy)
interview
With ChatGPT’s surge in popularity 2022, Faulkner wished to rekindle the old project and create a new prototype focused first as a chat bot. In 2024 he released a couple bots into small coding discords. Stating ‘Graduating from Uni and trying to get some help in personal projects… I realized that coding was an inherently depressing job [quoted from Johnathon Blow]… Remembering my self help journey I felt I wan[ted]. No needed to offer my support. Despite us all giving up on the project, I knew I could adapt it to our new technology. Two years later I’m finally confident it’ll give back and bring more good into the world…Right now the worlds going through a mental health crisis. I wish to no stand idle and be a the battlefront for humanity’s sake. Which is why I made the HuMain project. To put each human as the MAIN character of their story.”
A private interview with Richard Faulkner conducted on 05/01/2024 between a former member of now dubbed Project Humanity.
About Me
For those wondering, I’m the one who interviewed Faulkner after hearing him restarting our old project. This project is still solo development but I knew it needed a website, so I’m hosting it for him.