I Made ChatGPT Come Alive As Myself
My First Attempt at “Cloning” Myself
Back in 2017, I was working 12-hour days from a co-working/co-living space in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I was working on a (way too ambitious) video game project for my startup.
Even though I was working remotely abroad, I really didn’t have a life. I’d wake up at around 6am and finish work at around 7pm, with an hour’s lunch in between.
I was grinding, and grinding, and grinding.
Feels familiar?
One day I thought: wouldn’t it be nice to clone myself so I don’t have to work as much?
Not a very original thought I know, but the difference with me is that I didn’t leave it at that. I asked myself: “How would I be able to clone myself?”
But first, what would that even mean?
At the time, it meant a few things. The clone should:
- Code like me (or better);
- Write like me (or better);
- Talk like me; and
- See like me.
Over the course of the next few days, I started designing how exactly I would be able to do that.
You can imagine, pre-GPT, my solution was a lot more complicated and ambitious. Without going into…
