Presenter
Deger Turan, AI Objectives Institute
Vehbi Deger Turan is the founder and CEO of Cerebra Technologies, an AI platform that identifies what resonates for your audience, and why. Cerebra has been used by governments, hedge funds, and international retailers alike, facilitating deliberation and insights into public discourse trends for over 300 million citizens. Prior to Cerebra, he was a Research Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies developing toolkits for forecasting shifts of public opinion...
Evan Miyazono, Protocol Labs
Evan is the team lead for Research at Protocol Labs. He has lived in California his whole life, bouncing between NorCal and SoCal. He spent enough of his childhood at beaches that a sandy shore always feels familiar; the rest was spent sitting at a computer, reading books, or disassembling things. He eventually majored in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford after unintentionally picking up minors in math and CS....
Niamh Peren, Foresight Institute
Niamh Peren is a change maker. Best known for founding the environmental movement Tino Pai Aotearoa/ Thumbs Up New Zealand, Peren successfully led her government petition through the corridors of power toward legislation. As an environmental advocate, Peren’s petition paves the framework for a circular economy and designs waste out of the system. She united 47/67 Mayors, who pledged allegiance to her movement, as well as tens of thousands of signatories, and garnered plenty of media attention....
Martin Karlsson, Discourse Graphs
Martin Karlsson is a Founder & CEO at Lateral.Martin co-founded a creative agency where his work focused on digital publishing - envisioning and building cutting edge content and ad solutions for a range of global clients.
Ryan Singer, Chia
Ryan is an accomplished entrepreneur and leader in Bitcoin, the broader open source ecosystem, academia and the non-profit sector. Ryan was Co-Founder and COO of the largest American Bitcoin exchange, Tradehill, Inc. Since Tradehill, Ryan co-founded CryptoCorp, a multi-signature security company, Blockchain Clearing, a securities clearing technology company, Blockchain Health, which does document control for clinical documents using the Blockchain and Chia Network, a crypto-currency company building...
WhyRUSleeping, Protocol Labs
First engineer @protocollabs , technical advisor @bluesky . IPFS, libp2p, Filecoin, Estuary. Build it ship it make it work. @aresearchgroup
Summary:
What are you trying to do?
We are unblocking the ability to talk to someone who’s time-poor, deceased, or the composite of a group.
How is it done today? What are the limitations of the current system?
You can read someone’s intentional writing & notes and generate group composites using consensus mechanisms.
What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
This will succeed because disk space is cheap, ML is getting cheaper, and we have language models that can generate a model of an individual or a composite of people.
If successful, what difference will it make?
You’d be able to have virtualizable people; enables high parallelization and delegation to a highly trusted individual or unblock groups who are operating in an “ask forgiveness, not permission” mode.
How much will it cost?
If we want to fine-tune a model of ~100 people, that’d cost on the order of $200; $40k for an org of 10k people + 2 engineers for 4-6 months (@$150k/yr), ~ $500k for an initial prototype + testing with 4 organizations.
How long will it take?
It would be 4-6 months to a first prototype.
What are the mid-term and final exams to check for completeness?
Prototype in 4 months, test with companies in 6 months to validate success.
What we want/need
Funders would be great; Novel monetization strategies for open source products, and LLMs with open weights.
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