What a story. I might be inclined to amend that story by bringing the past into the present as well as including the future. How?
By referencing that huge fireplace mantle which was a tree that also once stood in a great forest, but now supports that young pine sapling, which will someday be planted in a great forest, and will someday itself become a huge fireplace mantle.
Circle of life kind of thing.
Those are great ideas - both for the AI to expand on and (no longer so surely better) doing it myself.
Two things struck me on this experiment. I’ve been playing with this since they opened it to the public, with a lot of interesting but not terribly compelling results. This is the first time I’ve experienced something with real emotional pull in the sense of longing and anticipation. The second was its use of anthropomorphism in the tree’s POV.