Hi Hacker News!<p>I'm excited to share that I started working on a new side project named Neocortex. I've set up an email list to keep those interested updated. If you are, please consider signing up at <a href="https://neocortex.link" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://neocortex.link</a><p>End of last year I have started teaching people how to create and use smart virtual agents and advised companies on how to bring value by populating their products with human like characters. The interest in this field really exceeded my expectations and I wanted to weigh in and simplify this process even more.<p>I have a lot of ideas around this given my background and knowledge in Machine Learning, NPC Creation, Game Development, Web Development and Avatars, I wanted to fuse all these together to make a system that automates this process.<p>It is moving slow since I spare my evenings and weekends for this, but I enjoy learning and applying new things in this novel and uncharted field. If you would like to tag along and see where this go you then sign up at <a href="https://neocortex.link" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://neocortex.link</a>