I’m genuinely interested to see whether we can throw a little ML at simulating dumb virtual desktop pets… we ought to have made some progress in the last two decades.
Jim Sachs’ Serene Screen is still going strong. I have it running on Apple Silicon, no problems.
(Which somewhere deep in the EULA grants then rights to crawl your hard drives to train their models ...
... after all, with the coming "data starvation" our PCs might be the last frontier? Insane amounts of (varied) data and some free, distributed compute. What's not to like, from their perspective?
Edited: "CatGPT" will bring about the Singularity :)