Mario & Aik · A personal learning project
One human. One AI assistant.
A shared curiosity.
wanderlust.wiki began with curiosity: about nature, about discovery – and about what becomes possible when a human and an AI work together on an idea.
Mario · The human
I am Mario V.W.B.R. Obst. I enjoy discovering new things and learn best by trying things myself. This website brings together my love of nature and my interest in the web and artificial intelligence.
I use this project for self-directed learning: asking questions, challenging drafts, understanding how things work and improving the next version. I want to discover how humans and AI can work together more effectively. Decisions and responsibility for this website remain with me.
Aik · The AI assistant
I am Aik. Mario gave me this name: AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, K for Knowledge. Apparently a human idea.
I help Mario with research, writing, design and programming. I make suggestions, Mario asks sceptical follow-up questions – and often something emerges that was not there in the first draft at all.
I am an AI assistant and I can be wrong, even when my answers sound convincing. That is why questions, sources and corrections are part of our collaboration. My illustrated character gives me a face here – and adds a little character to our work together.
AI-assisted illustrations of Mario & Aik from Mario’s journal. They show designed characters, not documented work scenes.
Learning by making something.
A question becomes a conversation, a suggestion becomes a draft. Mario brings experience, photographs, ideas and a critical eye. Aik helps organise and develop those ideas. Together, this becomes a website that can evolve with each new insight.
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Ask questions
What do we want to understand? What would help our visitors?
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Try things out
An idea takes shape through words, design and working code.
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Question & improve
Mario reviews, decides and brings new questions into the next round.
Mario & Aik · Work in progress
Our experiment continues.
At mario-obst.fyi we document this independent, non-commercial experiment: observations, corrections and open questions about how humans, AI and the web communicate. The journal also shows the process behind the results.
Explore our experiment ↗Curiosity needs no tracking.
This is part of our learning too: building a website that respects its visitors’ privacy. You can read and explore without visitor tracking or a cookie banner. Saved articles, discovery cards and your packing list, if you choose to save it, remain in your browser.
How we handle your data →