Clover-Edition VS Windows Terminal

AI Dungeon Clover Edition isn't exactly the best in terms of output quality in comparison to most alternatives (mainly because it just hasn't been updated in quite a while; its best models still use GPT-Neo 2.7B), but it's the most similar alternative to Classic AI Dungeon, and plays more like a game than current AI Dungeon, or any of these other alternatives.

KoboldAI with GPT-J 6B (or a more powerful open-source model) is probably the best free alternative. You can either run the AI model locally, or use the KoboldAI GPT-J 6B Google Colab. Dreamily also exists as a free option, but I'm honestly not sure I'd recommend it over KoboldAI + GPT-J 6B (or even AI Dungeon, for that matter). If you want something that plays more similarly to the CYOA-style of AI Dungeon, try AI Dungeon Clover Edition. It's not exactly the best free option in terms of output quality, but it's pretty much the closest one in terms of gameplay to AI Dungeon.

The best you can get are some pre-dragon modified versions like Clover Edition if you want AID specifically.

There are also a ton of branches of the original version of AI Dungeon, but Clover Edition is likely the most notable, and arguably the best out of them. It also has a link to a Google Colab version, in case you can't run it locally. It's worth mentioning, though, that it's not really quite as good, in terms of output quality, as other options, mainly due to it using GPT-Neo 2.7B. It also hasn't been updated in quite a while. However, as far as AID alternatives go, it's one of the alternatives that are closest to the AI Dungeon experience, if that's what you're looking for in an alternative.

There are plenty of free alternatives. Write With Transformer exists, is free, and has a few AI models to choose from. You can try the base GPT-J 6B model on EleutherAI's website, or through the KoboldAI Google Colab. Clover Edition exists, and has multiple AI models to choose from. GPT-Neo Dungeon exists, and uses GPT-Neo, hence the name. Open CYOAI and AI Dungeon 2 Unleashed also exist. GodAI exists as well, and uses GPT-2. KoboldAI is a good frontend for locally running AI models, and it has a subreddit at r/KoboldAI. Dreamily exists, and has a mobile app. However, they require quite a bit of personal information to make an account; only make an account if you trust them with said info. Their privacy policy also, at one point, actually admitted to monitoring private content. There is also a filter in place, though I'm unsure what the filter disallows (aside from mentioning Xi Jinping). Also, HoloAI, Hyperwrite, ShortlyAI, and InferKit have fairly abusable free trials. HoloAI uses GPT-J 6B, InferKit uses Megatron-11B, and Hyperwrite and ShortlyAI both use GPT-3 (although, they both also use OpenAI's incredibly broad filter; quite a lot of stuff is disallowed).

Clover Edition exists, and has multiple AI models to choose from.

Getting an older version of the game isn't a great idea. If you mean an older version of the app, the filter would be there anyways, since the filter is done on the server-side, and the AI would be the same as it is now. The original version of AI Dungeon uses the Classic AI, which I doubt many people are willing to settle for. However, there are plenty of forks of the original version of AID, and some AID clones, such as Clover Edition, GPT-Neo Dungeon, Open CYOAI, and AI Dungeon 2 Unleashed. As was mentioned already, NovelAI also has a text adventure mode that plays near identically to AI Dungeon, and the text adventure module does kinda capture the feel of AI Dungeon. Honestly, all it takes to recreate AI Dungeon on alternatives is to add "> You"/"> You say" at the start of your inputs. Literally all AI Dungeon's Do and Say modes did was add "> You" and "> You say", respectively, to the beginning of your input. Also, I think you're underestimating how many people actually did use AI Dungeon to write serious stories.

NovelAI uses GPT-Neo 2.7B and GPT-J 6B, with subscription tiers of $10/$15/$25 per month. HoloAI uses GPT-J 6B. It has a free trial, and subscription tiers of $5/$8 per month. Hyperwrite offers 1500 outputs for free, and uses GPT-3. After the free trial, a subscription is required. Though, some content (to be more specific, NSFW content) is disallowed. ShortlyAI uses GPT-3, and offers a free trial. After the free trial, a subscription is required. Though, similarly to Hyperwrite, NSFW content is disallowed. Write With Transformer exists, is free, and has a few AI models to choose from. You can try the base GPT-J 6B model on EleutherAI's website, or through the KoboldAI Google Colab. Endless Visual Novel, though it isn't yet released, will be going into closed alpha this month (you can currently sign up for the closed alpha, if it interests you). A subscription (the subscription prices haven't been specified yet) will be required to use the AI and create stories. It uses the GPT-3 Davinci model (the same model that AI Dungeon's Dragon model is based on) for text generation, and also has AI-generated imagery and music to go along with it. As the name implies, it plays in a visual novel format. Depending on what you use AI Dungeon for, it could genuinely end up outclassing AI Dungeon when it releases. There are also some more alternatives worth mentioning, though they all require some setup to get working, and most run locally, which requires more computing power than what the average person has. While they are quite good, the fact that they're aren't exactly user friendly might be a deal breaker for you. Anyhow, Clover Edition exists, and has multiple AI models to choose from. GPT-Neo Dungeon exists, and uses GPT-Neo, hence the name. Open CYOAI and AI Dungeon 2 Unleashed also exist. GodAI exists as well, and uses GPT-2. KoboldAI is a good frontend for locally running AI models, and it has a subreddit at r/KoboldAI.

HoloAI uses GPT-J 6B. It has a free trial, and subscription tiers of $5/$8 per month. Hyperwrite offers 1500 outputs for free, and uses GPT-3. After the free trial, a subscription is required. Though, some content (mostly NSFW content) is disallowed. ShortlyAI uses GPT-3, and offers a free trial. After the free trial, a subscription is required. Though, similarly to Hyperwrite, some content is disallowed. InferKit has a free trial, uses the Megatron 11B model. A subscription is required after the free trial. Write With Transformer exists, is free, and has a few AI models to choose from. You can try the base GPT-J 6B model on EleutherAI's website, or through the KoboldAI Google Colab. Clover Edition exists, and has multiple AI models to choose from. GPT-Neo Dungeon exists, and uses GPT-Neo, hence the name. Open CYOAI and AI Dungeon 2 Unleashed also exist. GodAI exists as well, and uses GPT-2. KoboldAI is a good frontend for locally running AI models, and it has a subreddit at r/KoboldAI. Dreamily exists, and has a mobile app. However, they require quite a bit of personal information to make an account; only make an account if you trust them with said info. Their privacy policy also, at one point, actually admitted to monitoring private content, as well as to collecting quite a lot of personal info and sharing said info with third parties. There is also a filter in place, though I'm unsure what the filter disallows (aside from mentioning Xi Jinping).

> convince management of the value

This presupposes that such convincing is even possible. Many, many companies have leadership that are simply terrible at identifying value. If you've never been part of a majority of developers advocating for, if not outright begging for, some huge ROI initiative to get the green light, you are very fortunate.

There are great counterexamples, like Valve, which is known for giving developers an extreme degree of autonomy, and they benefit greatly from that approach. For each Valve, though, there are dozens of companies that manage to succeed despite themselves.

Take Microsoft, for example. One tiny, yet representative, example: the way the Windows Terminal team handled a suggestion from Casey Muratori to take their software from abysmally slow to lightning fast:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

A quote from one of the Terminal developers, dismissing the suggestion:

> I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…

Just how difficult was such an endeavor in actuality? Well, given that Casey implemented his own terminal emulator from scratch and incorporated the functionality he was proposing in a mere weekend... not a whole lot. Relatively minor effort for a huge return on investment. It took Casey explaining the concepts, then providing a working proof of concept, and finally a bunch of backlash online towards the Terminal team to get them to do the right thing for themselves and their users.

At this point ConHost.exe is open source [0] so it is maybe not a stretch to expect Microsoft to open source CMD.EXE at some point.

Though with PowerShell being cross-platform and already open source, I personally don't think there's enough to gain in some sort of better open source CMD.EXE fork. I'd be interested in being proved wrong on that, but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host

"Users of Linux and macOS may well be familiar with the sudo command, used regularly in the terminal, and it looks like Windows may finally be getting its own version."

More Linux tools are coming to Windows, especially Windows Server because the tools are good and they make it easier to administer a Windows Server.

They are looking at adding a default TUI text editor (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440) and now they are adding sudo.

I would not be surprised if systemd or something like it gets ported or reinvented for Windows simply because it makes managing services so nice.

GitHub

>We are allowed to view and consume it, to be influenced by it, and under many circumstances even outright copy it.

People keep saying this but it's actually much more complicated, and in many cases you can't view copyrighted content.

An example, MicroSoft employees are not permitted to view or learn from an open source (GPL-2) terminal emulator:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10462#issuecomm...

Another example is proprietary software that may have it's source available, either intentionally or not. If you view this and then work on something related to it, like WINE for example, you are definitely at risk of being successfully sued.

If you worked at MicroSoft and worked on Windows, you would not be able to participate in WINE development at all without violating copyright.

If you viewed leaked Windows source code you also would not be able to participate in WINE development.

An interesting question that I have, is whether training on proprietary, non-trade-secret sources would be allowed. Something like unreal engine, where you can view the source but it's still proprietary.

Windows Terminal is pretty good and a new terminal emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400

Assume its related to this:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.

"There are plenty of offline scenarios where this would be incredibly useful. For disconnected environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget."

Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...