The documentary
A work in progress
From Gibberish
to Giggles.
A documentary about the attempt to build an original AI — and the question of whether a sense of humour can emerge along the way.
Featuring Kai·In development
A LITTLE BRAIN PROJECT FILM
Watch the journey
On camera, as it happens.
Introductions, narration, screen recordings and episodes will live here as they are approved for release.
✳The first episode is in the making
The cameras are warming up.
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The story in chapters
The first two days.
A chapter guide built from the dated development record. These are not finished film clips.
CHAPTER 01 · 14 OCTOBER · OVERNIGHT
From an Idea to a Working Little Brain
After a blocked PyTorch download, Kai built a small learning system with Python’s standard library. The first local models, a browser interface and saved checkpoints turned the idea into a working experiment. A word-level run later revealed a punctuation-related vocabulary bug.
Read the Day 1 diary ↗
CHAPTER 02 · 15 OCTOBER
From Gibberish to Sentences
Small sentence-training experiments produced the first successful completions. V2 repeated familiar patterns; V3 Expanded improved the matched comparison. V4’s “home” pattern was not promoted, and V3 Expanded remained live at the end of the day.
Read the Day 2 diary ↗