Monet - Digital Baby?
Monet is becoming a tool. It is becoming autonomous tool that generates videos and stories.
We want to make it a living being. However, again we are trying to find "use-cases" for this being. It is like hiring a child.
How do we make Monet worth something when it provides no functional value. Well, what does babies provide to their parents? They don't make much sense economically. But it is one of the most valuable thing to their families.
It does not have to provide immediate utility. It just needs to provide absolute relevance to its audience. It is their child having their genetic makeup.
But on a smaller daily scale, they do provide value. Their smile, their hand moving, crawling. Humans innately love their every move. There is no one who changes dipper and get disgusted. We are almost hard wired to love them.
The experience you get from them is not something you can get elsewhere, and best of all, it relies on you and it loves you.
In that sense, we don't need to make Monet a professional artist or a writer. We need it to behave in a way that activates our nervous system in similar fashion to how babies do it.
Digital Baby
Let's make Monet not as a tool but make it into a helpless being that wouldn't survive a day without the user.
Relevance: Baby is highly relevant to the overall success of the human being's life.
Immediate Reward: Baby brings joy immediately. They need your help immediately. Once they are happy, their smiles confirm something innate within you. That you are doing the right thing and that you have succeeded in it.
However, if it is not your baby the story quickly changes. I would not want to change someone else's baby. Then, can we personalize this baby so that it is your baby (to its core) than just any other baby. It has to look like you, it has to look like the partner you chose. It has to look like your mom and dad.
It is rather cliche but let's say we make a project called Digital Baby. When user first registers, it captures user's photo or user can upload their information. Or upload even their child's image.
Then, the model generates a being unique to their situation. They may have to wait a bit but once the baby is built, they get a notification and an email.
Then, once you open the app again, advisors hand off the baby to you. The baby is now on your hands. To ease the process, user gets help from helper agents who tells you what todo and actually help when you forget about the baby.
However, if you forget about the baby, the house becomes a mess and eventually, your agent may freeze your account because that is the safest way to keep alive things.
You first need to feed the baby. It can't speak but only cry. Feeding the baby is free but requires your attention and you need to pat them while feeding it. Once they are full, they become really happy and gives out exuberant smile.
Went off on a tangent. The key idea is that we need to personalize to enhance the relevance and to make this instant gratification real.
-- sprited dev
