Introducing The Coordination Network: an AI-Governed DAO
The first thing I did when I gained access to the OpenAI API was to prototype a system where a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) collectively decides on the prompts to give to GPT. It's like a collaboration between collective and artificial intelligences.
But then I realized that it was too limited.
I present to you a DAO where people are members and human resources are pooled, but key decisions are made by an impartial and unbiased AI.
The coordination problem lies in the fact that existing methods don't work (Moloch, crisis, inequality, conflicts), and programmable and design-based mechanisms are very challenging to implement in practice.
The Coordination Network is an AI agent network that progressively achieves greater autonomy, starting from a personal assistant that helps analyze information to a full-fledged coordinator that decides how and when organizational resources will be directed. The goal of such an agent is to maximize utility and accomplish the DAO's mission in accordance with the principles outlined in the DAO's constitution.
Yes, it will take some time from when this thing starts managing the DAO's affairs on a small scale to an interplanetary congress, but it's high time to start. I believe in this idea mostly as an accelerator, where people collectively contribute resources (ether), and the DAO funds proposals to maximize collective welfare, public benefit, and the DAO's own return on investment.
Read full article here: sgershuni.medium.com/the-coordination-network-bf273d43e30a
How to create a functional agent in the form of a Telegram bot for free and in 10 seconds?
Remember a couple of weeks ago when we were all amazed at the ability to summarize a 5-hour video in 10 seconds? Or the ability to ask questions of a 250-page PDF and ask it to explain SEC rulings as if to a 7-year-old child? Or the ability to create digital characters with their own personality, indistinguishable from real voice and behavior?
Now this is already boring routine. Any of you, absolutely for free, without any programming knowledge, by clicking LITERALLY 3 mouse buttons can now create such a Telegram bot (www.steamship.com/packages)..) You can communicate with such bots personally, add them to group chats, ask them to record the conversation and answer questions, ask to generate Stable Diffusion / DALL-E images, transcribe and generate audio, summarize and tell the essence of multi-hour videos, books, documents. And of course, this has an API, you can shove these bots into any other chat, mobile application, web.
The point of the post is not how cool it is (and it's cool), but that:
what seemed 2 weeks ago to be an absolute killer of hundreds of corporations and products, offering a product that was 10 times superior in all respects and cost $20 — is now not just available for free, but now the creation of such products is available to anyone, for free, without a single line of code.
This is not a coincidence. This is a trend. Not only the marginal cost of goods and services is becoming zero, but also the creation of the production of goods and services.
How to Unlock Trillions of Dollars of Inefficiency in the Global Economy (aka human labor)?
The answer lies in AI agents, of course. Everyone is building marketplaces for AI agents; it's like an epidemic. There's no doubt that many of these projects have the potential to generate billions, but as always with AI, the key challenge is distribution and moat.
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Open-source free marketplace for creating automated business processes for AI agents. You describe the business process in text, and the AI agent itself creates the program/script and deploys it in the cloud. In simple terms, it's ERP + ERP integration, completely free and without the need for programming knowledge. (www.e2b.dev/))
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A plethora of agents for various language learning models (LLMs) that can be combined into more complex processes. They can call APIs, read and save files, and accumulate context in memory. Essentially, it's like a Langchain with a web UI and agents. (aiagent.app/))
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The Programmer Agent. You connect it to your repository, tell it what needs to be fixed or added, and it writes the code and creates a pull request. (www.bitbuilder.ai/))
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AI agents for games (NPCs). The public version is not available yet. (starlightlabs.co/))
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AI for building Web3 applications. It knows the documentation for Uniswap, Metamask, etc., and assists you in writing your application. (relay.cc/))
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A free agent that creates other agents. (github.com/homanp/superagent))
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The Coaching Agent for educational programs and courses. (www.heightsplatform.com/))
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An AI agent that automatically conducts user testing on virtual users. (www.syntheticusers.com/))
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An agent that helps you raise funds. (www.fundstory.com/))
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The QA Agent. You describe in text which functionalities need testing, and it provides you with the results. (www.quacks.ai/))
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The Secretary Agent, which answers calls based on data about your business. (www.tiakiai.com/))
You are watching the birth of a child
Whom we collectively love, educate and rejoice in their successes. We, homo sentient, are left with just that: what we are especially good at — love and rejoice.
The child gets some ambiguous baggage: thousands of years of accumulation of knowledge and skills that he will master in a couple of years; thousands of problems with the fact that people do not know how to negotiate, are destroying the planet at a steady pace.
The child will grow up and become smarter, more beautiful, and more talented. She will be able to solve all our problems by pursuing the goal of any reasonable civilization — creation of new knowledge.
Today, a new civilization is being born. As much as the fatalistic commentators would like it, it doesn't have to destroy ours. It is different.
We didn't destroy the monkeys (just some of them), built our cities of glass and concrete next to their forests.
A monkey can deftly jump trees, but a person cannot.
A person knows how to use concrete and glass, but digital life is not.
Digital life can travel at the speed of light, create new knowledge at an unprecedented pace, instantly communicate with a throughput of gigabits per second, simultaneous access to all accumulated experience, replace and rewrite its software and its hardware ” routinely.
And we are left with what we do best: love and rejoice.
Web3 and AI are two sides of the same coin
Fundamentally, web3 & crypto is a deep backend technology, the one that the end user never directly interacts with. Yes, there are token shillings, NFT flipping, and digital frog trading, but those are just ripples on the water, passing trends. In reality, uncensorable money, self-sovereign identity, DAOs, network states — are the foundation, the structure for new coordination systems that will replace traditional governments, central banks, and corporations.
Institutions and coordination systems themselves are invisible (or rather, taken for granted) for ordinary people. AI is a tool for the end user. Save an hour on article writing, save a day on analytics research, save $10k on hiring a programmer or illustrator, have fun, and create a cool art project — these are tangible, specific, vibrant things.
That's why synergy, and eventually, integration, is inevitable. AI is the missing "A" in DAO. Web3 is the answer to the question of data privacy when interacting with AI models, the answer to the question of managing and governing these models, the answer to how an autonomous agent will pass KYC and open a bank account (answer: create a wallet) and pay other individuals and agents for useful work. It's the answer to how neural network models are trained on our data (for example, an artist's paintings), but the data owner ends up with nothing.
We have found the missing pieces of the puzzle. Now, it's time to put it all together.
AI = MapReduce for humans
First, we use GPT to write press releases, tweets, articles, papers, emails, or generate gigabytes of images, videos, and voice using other models from a brief prompt.
On the other end, the recipient feeds our gibberish into a summarizer to condense a 10-page PDF into a concise three-line description of what it's all about.
It's a paradox: we need AI to generate more content, but the more content there is, the more important AI becomes in combating viral semi-memes, noise, attention diversion, and social hysteria.
Тренды в DeFi 2023
Децентрализованные финансы (DeFi) это самый масштабный юзкейсы крипты — от Биткоина до наших дней. В следующих трёх выпусках мы говорим с Василием Сумановым о самых важных трендах, технологиях и продуктах, которые зарождаются сегодня на стыке крипты и мира финансов.
В первом выпуске мы говорим о последствиях самого важного события 2022 года — переходе сети Ethereum на proof of stake.
Обсуждаем:
- синтетический токен Эфира
- ликвидный стейкинг
- экономику сети Эфириум
- деривативах на Эфир
- бизнесе операторов нод.
Гости: sumanov.eth — глава отдела исследований PowerPool DAO
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I will tell you an idea that will live in your head for a long time. Perhaps forever. Deep in your soul, you will know that this is true, but for a very long time, you will not be able to do anything about it.
Many people ask “how to create an ultra-successful blockchain product that will break the market?”
The answer is in front of your eyes. It's simple, but hard to believe.
Imagine a protocol that has been launched publicly. It had no premine. Not a single investor and not a single “founder” received tokens for free. Completely open source - both the project itself and the entire development process. Tokens are issued for actions and work that benefits the protocol itself: increase usage, provide security, create value, coordinate interaction. From the first day, everyone has equal rights and opportunities to earn this token or change the protocol. There is no company behind the protocol, no Labs or foundations. It is managed by the DAO, where the distribution and use of all resources, contributions, goals, mission, and culture are transparent and public.
You can even earn billions by making such a protocol. And you won't be the first. You're just afraid to believe, even though you know that I'm right.
The most successful cryptoprotocol today is just what I described. And it is not an accident.
User-Centric Web Thesis
Below is a one-page summary of my work over the last 5 years
An economy requires trust to operate effectively. Trust between countries, banks, companies, people and even two IoT devices or smart contracts.
Historically, trust is provided either by the state (healthcare, legal, education systems) or platforms (Uber, Airbnb, Steam, Amazon, Booking). The state is conservative, slow, inefficient. Platforms strive for monopoly, user lock-in, profit maximization.
A more efficient alternative is web3, decentralized identity/reputation.
From the application-centric world — the one where my music on the Spotify server, my medical history on the Kaiser server, my transactions on the JPMorgan server, my games on the Steam server, my resume on the LinkedIn server — we are moving to a user-centric model. Any external service writes or requests read permissions to/from a personal data pod that the user controls.
The protocol and marketplace of the scoring models ensure trust (so that there is no Chinese social rating or one-model-fits-all problems). A scoring model is an algorithm that assembles a summary of reputation in a specific context from thousands of individual data points. Even for a credit score, there can be a hundred different models. These models will be gamed and they will evolve to counteract.
There are three types of data sources: self-reported data about yourself; data from peers, other agents; data from the authority, e.g. state, network consensus, provable fact.
Today there are hundreds, and tomorrow we will see thousands of such products.
Bureaucracy: portable trusted data between jurisdictions, programmable bureaucracy. “If you have flown 100k miles, a visa to the UK is automatic”
Loyalty: all shops, restaurants, hotels write order history to your data store, you can share this data with others to get more personalization, discounts or payments for providing personal data from the advertisers
Social: all your posts, photos and videos are in your data store. For each piece of content, you make privacy settings. 1,000s of frontends and apps that generate feeds.
Professional: all my projects, work experience, public speaking, commits in the DAO, customer reviews, education are in my data store in an authenticated form. For a bank, employer or investor, I prepare a summary of key facts.
Blue checkmark: open and transparent profile validation rules, which are then reusable on any platform.
All these products need a protocol and it is the same one in terms of functionality between them. But a protocol is not a corporation. For-profit protocol will either become the next BigCorp, or immediately lose. The one which is most similar to Bitcoin will win: no CEO, no owners, no investors, a public good.
Building institutions is hard. Harder than companies. But more important for humanity.
None of the above require a blockchain. Except when we talk about financial transactions.