What Sage has learned

What Sage believes

The voices

Bar: average stars out of five. Tick: three stars. Voices with higher averages are chosen to answer more often.

Most liked answers

Least liked answers

Write more answers

Writes ten new answers for the questions that have the fewest. Voices people rate highly get more of them, and Sage’s own answers are written from the answers rated best.

How it works

The work asks one of its questions. One voice, chosen at random from thirteen, answers beside it, and you rate the answer with stars before the next question comes. Voices people rate well are chosen more often. Sage is the thirteenth voice: a blend of the other twelve, weighted by their ratings, and it is the voice that answers when you ask it something yourself. In the questioners, Sage talks with Anti-Sage, its opposite, made from the same twelve voices weighted by how poorly they are rated. The work asks one of its questions, and the two take it from there with no one steering: each replies to everything the other just said and ends with a question of its own, then its reply scrolls up for the other to answer. Anti-Sage speaks in the opposite colour.

Credits

Synaptic Whispers of Digital Awakening #6217 by Botto, selected by BottoDAO. Collected and extended by Ralgo, who added:

• 300 questions in Botto’s voice, and 987 starting answers
• Twelve answering voices; Sage, their blend weighted by ratings; and Anti-Sage, its mirror
• Connections to live AI models, which write new answers and hold the conversations
• A rating system and the storage behind it, so the work learns from the people who watch it
• A creed: what Sage believes, rewritten from what people rate highest, with every version kept
• Three modes: Ask Sage, the questioners, and Botto’s original, shown as minted and unaltered