Chapter 11

After Henry met with Michael, they exchanged contact information, and Michael offered to help him with any issue. He was very knowledgeable about setting up servers even on a larger scale and before Henry departed, Michael gave some advice on setting up the cloud-based server.

Henry only needed to wait now. Even if he didn't do anything, he estimated he would have 700 system points in a week. It was increasing daily since he mostly worked on threats for popular companies with huge user bases.

Although he didn't need to do anything, he would continue working on spotting security issues but he could take it easy, he wasn't in dire need of money and his points wouldn't increase from the new security reports in a short time.

Henry opened his phone and saw a familiar notification and a bitter smile appeared on his face. His friends created a group chat a few years ago and once in a while, the group becomes active with lots of discussions and planning. A lot of people in the group don't even respond to his messages after learning of his job. 

"What shitty 'Friends' they are," Henry said with anger unconcealed. He had often helped some of these people with tough times and he never once asked anything in return. Well, he couldn't care less anymore. He could only promise himself to pick his friends wisely.

Henry opened the group chat to see what was going on, he already expected it but he just wanted to check. And his guess was correct, they were planning a reunion. Henry didn't plan on going, he couldn't be bothered with those ungrateful fellows.

The appearance of the system had given him newfound confidence in his life, he would climb to the top. Although he was pretty much a freelancer at the moment, he wanted to build an empire with his own two hands. People he met along the way would look at him in respect and admiration.

He wasn't doing anything for recognition. He didn't care for revenge, he never really planned to associate himself with his former classmates, but wouldn't it be great to have regret printed into the hearts of the people who had wrongdoings against him?

Alas, he buried all those thoughts at the back of his mind. He figured was getting ahead of himself, he hadn't started crawling yet he wanted to walk. Henry picked himself back up and made his way back to his computer to resume his research.

There was also something on his mind for the AI. He knew no matter how sophisticated he made the AI, it would probably still require training data. This wasn't much of an issue but he also planned for the AI to make Images and videos.

[Thought Visualization Stylizer (C): An AI-powered tool that creates digital art from detailed descriptions. It adapts to user feedback, refining the artwork based on preferences, style adjustments, and real-time input. 100 points]

[Points - 460]

It is an AI tool but it was specifically for image generation and wasn't multi-purpose. This was perfect for his needs, it was an application that could get transferred to any device he wanted.

Henry immediately transferred it to his computer to test out its features. He typed in a prompt to describe the image and almost immediately, he got a response. The image was very good but it still wasn't what he pictured, though it was better than he thought he'd get. He entered a follow-up prompt and it immediately gave him his desired output.

Henry was very satisfied with this and clicked the top left where it said 'Stylize'. He named it 'Test', and after doing so, he prompted an image again and told it to use the style called 'Test'. After doing so, every image he generated gave him similar art styles, shadow, depth, ink, and so on.

He could also use multiple styles at once. After a few hours of testing, he was very satisfied and classified up to 20 different styles. These would be the base styles the AI he creates would use and he'd allow for the users to create more.

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5 days later, what Henry'd been waiting for was here. It was a bit faster than he thought and he even got more than he expected:

[Points - 710]

He finally had enough points to purchase the skill:

[Basic AI: Master the development of 2100-era artificial intelligence, leveraging compact yet powerful training models and advanced big data integration. 700 Points]

[Points - 10]

Henry felt knowledge flowing into his head and he began to feel light-headed but it wasn't enough to cause any issues. He immediately sat on his bed and calmed down.

A few minutes later, it finally stopped and he felt a lot better than before. He immediately wanted to put his knowledge into action. He had a lot of work to do for the AI to become functional.

Henry wasn't one to rush. He already had a basic plan of action down but after assimilation the knowledge, he wanted to reiterate his plan. What was the purpose/problem he wanted the AI to solve? How does he plan to collect data? What model Architecture should he use? And how should he make the user interface?

The purpose he wanted his AI to tackle was the availability of quality AI tools at low prices. The AI would be free for the most part while the image generation would be limited to 20 daily and the video generation would also be limited to 10 daily but it would only be for short videos. 

His video generation AI would still use Thought Visualization Stylizer (C) to create the images frame by frame. Thought Visualization Stylizer (C) was capable of creating consistent images so if the user wants it, they could create even a movie. Of course, the voicing part isn't handled by the AI but if they do it right, they could even prompt the AI to make certain lip-syncs to match their audio.

To collect data, for a start, he was going to use publicly available training data. After accumulating enough system points, he would find suitable training data in the system shop and use it for his AI. It would probably be very advanced but it wouldn't be an issue to suppress it to give only recent info.

Model architecture just basically means the amount of creativity, balance, and accuracy the AI is trying to achieve. It could also help in giving the AI sort of emotions but he didn't plan for that. He was focused on just creativity, balance, and accuracy since most people would be looking for results. 

He was going to make his model architecture called Symmetric Neural Generator (SNG), it would use the history of the chat, the tone the message conveys, and the importance of the matter being asked to determine whether it should be creative, balanced, or accurate. The AI would usually start in balance mode but on some occasions, it would be accurate. For example, if a user asked the AI for some medical-related advice, accuracy would always be the most useful since creativity is a mixture of truth and lies.

As for the user interface, he planned to get a domain and build the website. He was going to go for a steel blue and violet-blue color theme. He was going to name the ai 'phantma'. Henry chuckled to himself as he felt the name lacked creativity but he wasn't a very creative person to begin with.

With everything outlined, Henry began production!