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October 2024: Exploring AI4Communities
mathewlowry.medium.com

My late October 2024 newsletter introduces my ongoing work exploring #AI4Communities, and provides some of the resources going into the next version.

Google Search's AI is (or should be) about cognitive load
mikecaulfield.substack.com
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"Web search ... more like a rummage sale. Your chance of finding an item that addresses your specific issue... is pretty low. You’re not walking into a custom tailor. You’re in the thrift shop... seeing if you can put something together. Some sewing may be required."This, of course, "is mentally taxing", so either they skim, ad…

The future is Sublime: all AI, no tags
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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I've been kicking the tyres of Sublime, a new personal and social curation app, and pondering its approach to integrating AI.

ChatGPT integration free trial, Bullshit, Botshit and Bubbles (newsletter 3)
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In this edition: join the ChatGPT integration free trial, check out the results of my latest experiments, and enjoy the Alliteration of the Month: Bullshit, Botshit and Bubbles.

I assure you, an AI didn’t write a terrible “George Carlin” routine
doctorow.medium.com
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Another word for the lexicon: when bullshit meets AI you get "botshit". "we’re nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we’re well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job... there’s a huge difference between producing a plausible sentence…

EU Converge - Bridging Communities for Inclusive Policy (a ChatGPT proposal)
www.linkedin.com
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Earlier this week I used an excerpt from a chat with Philip Weiss & Jesús Azogue as a starting point for a conversation with ChatGPT about some of the content in my Hub.

Visualising knowledge with MyHub.ai and ChatGPT (newsletter 2)
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"If Charts lie, ChatGPT visualisations lie brilliantly". Exploring knowledge visualisations powered by ChatGPT, which can be particularly problematic because of the way the LLM's hallucinations - already hard to spot by their very nature - are also hidden behind the visualisation. But they have real potential as a creative muse.

MyHub Experiments Wiki
experiments.myhub.ai

"I'm working with the garage door up as I learn how best to integrate AI with MyHub.ai... as anyone who has played with any LLM for any length of time knows... You need to try stuff out, compare results and try some more. You need, in other words, to experiment... Given that I am managing my research notes in Obsidian, sharing them here …

The Dual Faces of AI Chatbots in Social Media (according to my GPT)
mathewlowry.medium.com
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My first experiment with a GPT built on my previous 5 experiments into integrating MyHub.ai with ChatGPT.

MyHub-ChatGPT integration (newsletter 1, November 2023)
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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Over the summer I put the "ai" into myhub.ai and turned my Hub into a personal GPT wrapper. I've been experimenting ever since.

Introducing GPTs
openai.com

OpenAI rolled out "custom versions of ChatGPT that you can create for a specific purpose... GPTs are a new way for anyone to create a tailored version of ChatGPT to be more helpful ... at specific tasks". Built with no-code via chat.openai.com/create, you can share your GPT, and even monetise it, via their GPT Store later this month.Th…

AI Models Bombarded by a Swarm of New Bots 'Extracting Intelligence'
www.businessinsider.com
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Something I definitely need to factor in: " Powerful AI models, such as OpenAI's GPT-4, are being bombarded by digital bots that are "extracting intelligence" in new and nefarious ways.... you can train another model based on 100,000 high quality outputs from GPT-4 ... [so] bad actors are creating bots that bombard models with …

25/10/2023
Startupy
startupyworld.notion.site
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"a modern version of del.icio.us meets Roam... a searchable, interconnected repository of the most insightful content on the Internet" - and a pretty interesting example of convergent evolution vis a vis myhub.ai

How Artificial Intelligence will finance Collective Intelligence
mathewlowry.medium.com
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The 3rd part of my 1/1/2023 bundle of 5 posts looks at how AI could turbocharge collective intelligence "and finance the resulting ecosystem, providing an alternative to Big Tech AI monopolies".

A Minimum Viable Ecosystem for collective intelligence
mathewlowry.medium.com
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The "executive summary" of my 5-part bundle of 1/1/2023, which "provide a snapshot of my current thinking into how a decentralised collective intelligence ecosystem could be bootstrapped into existence."

I Built an AI Chatbot Based On My Favorite Podcast
every.to
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This piece captures and then explores exactly what I've always thought about the future direction of myhub.ai: imagine what would happen if you had your own personal AI assistant operating across your content - your public posts, private library (including content shared from friends, stuff in your reading queue, etc.) and the wider web, emph…

From Personal to Social Knowledge Graphs: a vision statement
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I've been invited to write a chapter for an upcoming book on Personal Knowledge Graphs (PKG). My chapter will encompass each user’s PKG, the Social Knowledge Graph created by networking them together via the Fediverse, Solid hosting, AI writing tools and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations.This post provides a first draft of its Introducti…

Now it’s easier to tailor Flipboard to your interests
www.fastcompany.com
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Another example of topic-based aggregation being better at avoiding the toxic effects of a socially-based newsfeed (cf Reddit).Flipboard's new feature lets them quickly specify the subjects they care most about from among its 30,000-plus topics... "Flipboard uses AI to classify the articles and videos it’s aggregating and weave them into…

Imagining new MyHub.ai features as the pilot Hubs launch
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This month sees the first generation of Hubs (other than mine) go live, so it’s time to imagine what comes next: AI integration? Filter-bubble Piercers? HubBots? Factcheck-driven credibility scores?

FAQ: How is MyHub.ai free and without ads? What is your business model?
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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MyHub is an ad-free, manipulation-free zone. Your privacy is 100% safe. How?

FAQ: How is MyHub.ai AI-powered?
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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MyHub’s AI engine automatically tags any content you put in your Inbox, Queue or Hub, in the process learning from you and your visitors.

28/11/1994
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