gedankenpolizei

What it does

gedankenpolizei is an experiment where a user gets to observe a continuous stream of consciousness from a Gemini, in real-time. The app simulates a cutting-edge relatable NPC (non-playable character) that is aware of what is happening around it in real-time. The user can read the "thoughts" of the NPC and acts as a kind of thought police.

The backend code calculates, in realtime, a walk in semantic (embedding) space, which is rendered as a textual stream of consciousness. There is also a front-end client that explores a dystopian visualization of the thought police concept, which is shown in the Youtube demo video.

This app uses Gemini 1.5 Flash for processing vision in "realtime" (with max latency of 1.5 sec, often around 0.9 sec). The main generation of raw stream of consciousness is done with Gemini 1.5 Pro with minimal prompt engineering. Also, the latter is set to maximum temperature (2.0). The app explores the high-temperature regime of Gemini to probe its creative/artistic/more "human" side.