openflukeTHE PERSON BEHIND OPENFLUKE
Curiosity, all the way down.
I’m Samuel Watson, an independent AI researcher and systems builder in Australia. OpenFluke is where I turn questions into engines, experiments, and worlds.
Build it. Question it.
See where it goes.
My work spans the machinery of AI and the experiences built on top of it. Sometimes that means working on the way a neural network handles its numbers. Sometimes it means finding out how an artificial creature moves through a world.
I built OpenFluke to keep following those connections. Welvet is the AI engine. ALife OS is the product I’m working toward. The games, prototypes, and earlier engine designs are part of the same body of work.
I use the tools that help me get there, and I care about being able to inspect the result: code that can be read, ideas that can be tried, and claims that can be checked.
Why share the journey?
Research becomes more useful when people can see how it works. The book, examples, and archive make room for both kinds of curiosity: understanding the idea, and digging into exactly how it was built.
The aim is to make intelligence more understandable and more open to experimentation on the devices people own. ALife OS gives that ambition a world to grow into.
A longer origin story.
The first chapter of the Welvet book documents the personal history behind OpenFluke, the name, and the path through earlier projects. It is preserved in the book in its original voice.