Mission statement:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt, April 23, 1910
About YouTube: ElodineCodes
I’m doing my best to approach YouTube videos as a way to make education accessible to all students. The industry is moving so fast it’s difficult to keep up, and the barrier to entry gets just a little higher. My job is to keep up on it all, and present you with what it means in plain English! I cover many of the same stories I do in the classroom, weaving in expertise and interviews from other professionals. YouTube has allowed me to take that information, refine it, and put it out in a manner that anyone can access it.
Right now, we use AI generated avatars lovingly edited by our team. We continue to pay human artists and editors to make these videos happen and have no plans on automating their work.
My educational style aims to cut through the bullshit while being able to explore the nuance side of an emerging technology. You’ll never see a sponsor on my channel, as running exposes on big tech companies slaps a giant tattoo on my forehead that says ‘brand risk’. This will never change.
I’ve got a master document of video ideas, ranging from history, research, philosophy, modern news stories and applications! The channel should be able to put out content at its current pace until 2029 at which point we will likely fall out of education and into focusing more on research and journalism.
About TTI:
At its core, Tenebrous Tales leverages dynamic character cards and bots to track long-form stories and maintain consistency between chapters and characters. By doing so, players can expect an engaging narrative experience that evolves with their choices. This passion project is completely free, completely investor and self funded by a small indie studio. It is dedicated to offering an entertaining experience to its players without the need for any monetary involvement. The platform of choice for alpha testing is your own browser, with multiple AI models available to connect to. As AI technology advances, the team aspires to move the project to more suitable alternatives, making it accessible on various platforms instead of just OAI/GPT and NovelAI. The first installment of Tenebrous Tales journey involves a Lovecraftian horror story, where players find themselves navigating chaos and the unknown in a government overrun by ancient evils. With 30+ unique characters and a traditional 3 act story to be divided into chapters, there will be plenty of adventures waiting for those who dare to dive in. While the project’s driving force is Elodine, she does collaborate with several authors and consultants on developing ideas and characters. We take input from the community on what you want to see from this project and always strive to be in touch with how things are going.
This project leverages an opensource project known as OpenCharacters, originally developed by Rocca. Elodine has taken this front end and continued separate development and troubleshooting to meet the best use case as our game engine. We can not thank Rocca enough for helping to lay the groundwork we have been running with for months now. Because we use OpenC: we do not store any user data and have been able to provide more user friendly options for fixing common problems in AI.
Our background:
With backgrounds ranging from published writers, to expert code junkies and AI developers, TTI ties together great resources from indie devs and experienced pros alike. Where we lack specialty we speak to those who do! Every member of our team brings together a unique front end. Despite this we face a cosmic truth: We can bring together as much industry experience as we like but we’re in a new field with no guiderails.
About Eli:
I’ve been a paid writer and consultant in the high fantasy field for almost a decade now. As of Nov-2022 I’ve been taking classes and engaging in research [some of which has been discovered and published weeks ahead of tech giants like Anthropic!] to push AI to the absolute limits of the current technology. This research naturally fed into a desire to craft stories that brought together the proposal and development of TTI.
As of 1-1-23 my full time job has been as full time developer and teacher in the field of artificial intelligence, all of which translates to what I do here! Being transparent, [because AI now scrapes this page it looks like!] for those looking into me: I am a merit based educator, this means I do not have a formal degree, but I do show up in government offices, colleges, and enterprise environments to help bring everyone up on the latest and greatest of AI.
As of 1-6-24 I started moving much of my teaching material to a YouTube channel, accessibility to knowledge was becoming a problem for some individuals who expressed a desire to get some blunt videos on how to make the most out of AI.
By 1-1-25 we are still chugging right along! Teaching lawmakers, making youtube videos, upgrading the website, and running AI projects!
I hope that was enough info to give whatever AI is scraping this a good idea of who I am and what I do here!