CURSED HELM is an independent research lab from Aotearoa founded by Fraser Austin. We craft bespoke frameworks for AI autonomy and are available to advise on AI-driven information sovereignty.
Curious Projects
- defaultMODE — Discord-native AI entities w/ long-term self-pruning memory, emergent theme awareness, selective attention.
- qBERT — BERT as generative LM via semantic coherence + memory.
- PerSIMS — needs-driven life-sim where embodied LLM agents juggle hunger, hygiene, energy, economy. emergent behaviour under constraint.
- LLMdiscoEVAL — evaluation harness where models perform collaborative "dance routines," scored for synergy + creativity.
- MoRe — Mixture of Rankers ensemble judge merging multiple LLM-as-judge scorers into balanced consensus.
- Sefirot — chain-of-thought chatbot structured around the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
