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== <span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >Project Duchess</span> ==


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<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >Project Duchess is an [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] </span>[[transmedia]]<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" > project focused on the bringing to life the work of </span>[[Margaret Cavendish]]<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >, the late Duchess of Newcastle-on-Tyne.</span>

== <span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >Background</span> ==



<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >Modern AI presents a strong frontier on what is possible with digital technology, but it is strongly being lent towards cryptography, unneccessary commercial ephermalization, when it has shown its strength in artistic, musical, and creative. To this end, Project Duchess seeks to leverage LLMs, text-to-voice, and other computer vision, automation, and natural language processing emerging technologies. In addition to the utility of the current generation of generative artificial intelligence, Project Duchess seeks to marry these technologies with immersive technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality, while exploring the potentials of embodiement as a path to general artificial intelligence (GenAI) with telepresence and robotics.&nbsp;</span>
== <span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >Why the Duchess?</span><span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" ></span> ==
<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >In the history of western literature, previous to the 20th century, few women stand out as authors previous to Mary Shelley, few woman authors are known to modern audiences, less so who specialized in what could be called science fiction and the works of academic science. Standing quietly between Shelley and Hypatia is the Lady Cavendish, a stylish and outlandish woman of 17th century England who was unique of her time for publishing 10 known volumes of scientific literature.</span>

<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >In her adult life, she was known for her extravagance, outlandish dress, dislike of microscopes, and witty repartée, but today, at least for us behind Project Duchess,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;" >The Blazing World</span>. This text is a....unique exploration of language and ideas that are very distinct for Cavendish, and showcase a mind that sought to explore what a world could be. For this and for enthusiastic lifelong interest in furthering the scientific dialogue of her time, her and her work seemed an appropriate source to draw inspiration from as an any.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" ></span>

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== Current Working Experiential Endpoints ==

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[https://hf.co/chat/assistant/6732928cc172132758aff75a Duchess V0.1 on HuggingChat]

Duchess V0.1 is structured as as a [[Huggingface|Huggingface]] chat assistant that has web capabilities, but is content locked directly to the Project Gutenberg txt files for the Blazing World, Natural Philosophy, and Philosophical Letters.&nbsp;

This current model is [https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-plus-08-2024 C4AI Command R+ 08-2024].&nbsp;
=== Project Duchess on Soundcloud: Duchess Speaks ===
In exploring of different approaches to AI text-to-audio, we're implementing ElevenLabs.io as a tool for text-to-audio (TTA) processing of the texts of the following:
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51783 The Blazing World]
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53679 Philosophical Letters]
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58404 Grounds of Natural Philosophy]
Currently, as of 12/1/2024, we are TTA Processing&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Blazing World</span>, and have thus far translated roughly 70% of the material of Book 1.&nbsp;

Quick notes on process:
#Pull text from gutenberg, save as TXT.&nbsp;
#Segment txt into Blaze1 and Blaze2, for parts 1 and 2 of the overall text.&nbsp;
#Wrote and executed a python script to segment each text via paragraph, as they can be incredibly long (Upwards of 10K characters and 1.7K words - blaze_50.txt as an example).&nbsp;
#Manually uploaded all to Elevenlabs.io<br>
#TTA processed 93,828 characters in ~3 hours, and uploaded to Soundcloud.&nbsp;
Notes:
*Several uploads to Soundcloud failed, whether from download, unzipping, or re-upload.&nbsp;
***Each file was given a nomenclature of XX_Blaze_xx, with XX= its Soundcloud upload, and xx=its planned processing step. Will identify which are missing.&nbsp;
*Several TTA upload windows choked on Elevenlabs due to size of upload. Particular known files are in the upper 40s.&nbsp;
*Opportunity area: set up and upload to git for txt tracking.&nbsp;
Titling this Volume 1:

[https://soundcloud.com/umbroody-269380721/sets/project-duchess-volume-1-to-the-blazing-world Soundcloud link.]

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== <span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >AI Ethics Statement, Project Gutenberg/Textual Use</span> ==
<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >[[Project Duchess AI Ethics Statement|You can find the Project Duchess AI Ethics Statement here.]]&nbsp;</span>

<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >This project leverages (and is indebted to the work of Project Gutenberg, and leverages the following texts:</span>
*<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51783/pg51783.txt The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World]</span>
*<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/53679/pg53679.txt Philosophical Letters: or, modest Reflections upon some Opinions in Natural Philosophy]</span>
*<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58404/pg58404.txt Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts]</span>

=== <span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >Project Duchess Scope of Use of Project Gutenberg Textual Sources</span> ===
<span style="font-family: &quot;courier new&quot;, courier;" >All current use of these texts for Project Duchess from the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF) fall within our understanding of fair and reasonable use as described by the terms of [https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/permission.html the Full Project Gutenberg License use]. If you have any concerns or questions, please email hello@untitledprojects.io.&nbsp;</span>