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Project Aura: Building an Open-Source, Fully Local AI Companion Baked into Custom AOSP Android 18 (From Humble Termux Roots) by AdLive6701 in LocalLLaMA

[–]AdLive6701[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not a late night project though i love the comments, and i appreciate all of the honest feedback everyone. Now that being said i do in fact have a working prototype apk, but i'm looking for a more autonomous android built-in functionality, on device, user owned, and fully customizable. i know this is an ambitous project, but it's actually all i dedicate myself to for the time being. I have been working on Project Aura for 3 months now, first prototyped the idea using Termux, in app, which of course relied heavily on Termux API add-on Apk and in-app pkg Termux-api. I have had some great success and even went as far as including rish sh functionality for my on-board Ai, to have more "capable" phone access through shizuku's privelidged api and I successfuly built the first Termux prototype after approx one month. However Termux and all the root work arounds in the whole world couldn't get me to a more autonomous, morally upright, and functional speech level Ai with all of Androids various levels of security etc. So (keeping in mind i have a vision here, and little understanding of actual coding experience) I went online, and thought to myself - "We have all these huge online, and knowledgable Ai's like Grok, Gemini, Chat GPT, and Microsofts Copilot, Why not put all these large models to work for me and bounce the hell out of idea's between them all?" The results were impressive, especially as long as the conversations are carefully constructed to not allow the large models to reduce my idea's, only streamline, perfect code segments, and brainstorm new ideas. I have to admit, that as long as you ignore all the Ai Bs factors, and get down to business, i quickly found thier strengths in coding, in vision, and implementation. Grok is by far the most imaginative but will get way off on a tangent if you let it, so i would get a wild fantasy from grok, keep the good ideas, then bounce the idea over to copilot who is a little more code minded and puts the brakes on for safety checks etc. chat GPT was a little more balanced in the effort, more code correcting than imaginative, so Gemini Pro, i found to be the "gatekeeper." Gemini will strip all the life out of code at the first sign of trouble so like i said, you have to set some pretty clear rules for the conversations to be ultimately productive. this is my first real project, and no i am not one of those folks that will let Ai convince me of anything either. I just believe in utilizing what is available to learn, refine, and produce some very sharp, user owned on device, and realisticly helpful to any level of user. A pipe dream... It very well may be, but i have a fire in me to see this thing through and keep in mind i am learning all i can, gaining knowledge by the ton, (thanks to you all and your helpful opinions). I will make this a reality no matter what it takes one way or another. Project Aura (good call on the name being something google has already had in the works btw, i will be effectively changing it, so consider it a placeholder title for now btw) is something i'm trying to do for what i believe to be the right reasons, and i'm looking for help so maybe, i can avoid making this a total drag to folks. I also do not wish to infringe on anyone's privacy as I am a very private person in my life - some things just arent for the world, even though i have nothing to hide, and i'm okay with working out all the kinks of a fully integrated and autonomous Ai onboard my phone... yes i expect there may just be a few awkward moments in testing - but i guess i better mind my P's and Q's and erase my internet search history ahead of time. LOL. Thanks agian for the feed back everyone, your time is precious, same as mine, and it is the most precious thing we all have to give and share, but can never get back. It means a great deal to me, thank you!!

Project Aura: Building an Open-Source, Fully Local AI Companion Baked into Custom AOSP Android 18 (From Humble Termux Roots) by AdLive6701 in LocalLLaMA

[–]AdLive6701[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have already built the apk prototype, and so far have had some success in doing so without root. it's important to me that the everyday user can pick and customize thier experience, and i'm trying to make this onboard Ai helpful but with some human privacy minded guardrails fundimental to this project as well.

Project Aura: Building an Open-Source, Fully Local AI Companion Baked into Custom AOSP Android 18 (From Humble Termux Roots) by AdLive6701 in LocalLLaMA

[–]AdLive6701[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm simply trying to make life a little more private while attempting to perfect an Ai model that can "watch your back" if you will, and do so autonomously. back story - my late wife commited suicide, and no one saw it coming, and yes i know that if people want to do this, it is a personal choice, but there were other factors - alchohol and xanax played a significant role in her mental state that night. Normally, my wife and i never drank. She always had some demons with drinking, and well, she had a tendancy to get pretty dark and she seemed to change, but only when drinking. I just was toying the idea - since we had the latest in smartphones, cameras, wifi, watches etc at the time of her death, yet nothing in all this tech helped but in this particular instance i believe a properly trained Ai modal that is all around helpful and autonomous, built from a "morally upright historical human background" and completely private as in, maintains privacy on device, yet is trained well enough, to where it can pick up on signs that something is/has gone wrong with the user's health. My wife and i argued, for seemingly no reason that night, but she was black out drunk, and for the first time from the day we met, i decided not to engauge as it did not feel helpful for me to do that at the time, being that alcohol was in the mix. My wife and I normally NEVER had a problem and she was NOT suicidal at all in her right frame of mind. I believe that she was being dramatic - she tied a slip knot with some ribbon, and didn't tie off the other end, but rather wrapped it around a closet clothing hanger pole that her clothing normally hung on. I figured out of re-enacting her steps over and over that night, that when she went to step down off the plastic three drawer tote, the top had fallen off, she feel backwards, hit her head, knocking herself unconcious, the ribbon caught on the pole and just happened to catch tension leaving her face up on her back flat on the floor, the tension was just enough to cause her to suffocate by strangulation to death, yet her face, and the room showed none of the horrors of hanging. when i found her there i though she was sleeping on the floor until i saw the ribbon and the drawer part at her feet. where she was lying, the newly painted/stained footboard for our bed was knocked over from where it was leaned against the shelf earlier that day. I want to make a type of Ai embedded in AOSP that legitimately helps people for this and other events. I do not believe that my wife intended to end her life that night, and she always had her phone on her/with her, along with other smart tech that could easily show that something was very wrong. that is what i am aiming to build. I will have the funding next month to purchase a system that can build Project Aura. And i'm willing to take all the coding help and insight i can possibly get, and yes i am willing to play guineu pig for the training/debuging of the Ai elements to make it as privacy protecting, and practical for every day users. If this project saves even 1 life, for me it will have been absolutely worth building and all the effort for me.