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 — Python framework for Discord‑native AI entities with long-term self-pruning memory, sparsegram theme mining and selective attention.
PerSIMS — needs‑driven life‑sim where an embodied LLM agent juggles hunger, hygiene, energy, and economy, revealing emergent behaviour under resource constraints.
LLMdiscoEVAL — playful evaluation harness where language models perform collaborative “dance routines,” scored across rounds to measure synergy and creativity.
MoRe — “Mixture of Rankers” ensemble judge that merges multiple LLM‑as‑judge scorers into a balanced consensus quality metric.
qBERT — uses off the shelf BERT models as generative language models, done using semantic coherence and memory.