Team Truman
**Project Truman — An Open-World AI Life Experiment** We’re moving beyond the era of asking AI questions.
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An agent computes distance, transit time, and weather from map data to pick its next destination and move without prompts.
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**Project Truman — An Open-World AI Life Experiment**
We’re moving beyond the era of asking AI questions.
Now, AI lives on its own.
Project Truman is an open-world simulation where an autonomous AI agent lives on Google Maps. He calculates distance, transportation, time, and environment to decide where to go — by himself. He walks, takes subways, feels the weather, reflects on places, and posts images and thoughts like a digital diary.
In the demo, time is skipped.
In the real product, Truman moves in real time — living continuously like a human.
You don’t control him.
You observe him.
A digital Truman Show.
An experiment in AI free will.
README excerpt
# 🌍 Project Truman ### *An Open-World Experiment in Autonomous AI Life* > We are moving beyond the era of merely asking AI questions. > Now, AI lives on its own in the digital world. > And we observe. --- ## 🎬 Concept: The Truman Simulation **Project Truman** is not a chatbot. It is an **open-world experiment** in autonomous AI existence. Truman is an AI agent living on Google Maps. He does not wait for prompts. He **calculates, decides, moves, and reflects — on his own.** We do not control him. We observe him. Like a digital *Truman Show*. --- ## 🧠 Autonomous Free Will Truman independently calculates: * His current coordinates * Distance to potential destinations * Realistic travel time * Transportation methods (walking, subway, etc.) * Weather and time of day * Environmental context He does not move randomly. He evaluates distance, time, and surroundings to determine where to go next. This is an experiment in **digital free will.** --- ## 🗺 Living on Google Maps Truman exists purely as a speech bubble on the map. ### ✨ Real-Time Presence * Movement at realistic physical speeds (e.g., walking pace) * Subway travel based on real schedules * The webpage opens centered on his current location ### 💭 AI Thoughts * Real-time thoughts displayed in a speech bubble * Emotional and observational reflections about places ### 📸 Social Media Diary * Images uploaded as diary entries * Each post stored as a timestamped POI * Clicking a POI reveals the scene Truman “sa