Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users
62 points - today at 1:21 PM
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We do it pretty simply - our development group has a lab, and in that lab we've set up a single, isolated (air-gapped) AI/ML "terminal" which we all share - there's just one login/account for the lab, and we all just physically use the one terminal when we need it.
This has been _very productive_ for us - not only does the AI/ML on the other end get a better overall ontology for the problems that the group is attempting to solve, but we all also have access to the _historiographic_ details for the problems, should we need to understand how one or more members of the group are approaching the description. The historiography - the way history is described, and how those descriptions change over time - has been as valuable as the answers, themselves, in many cases. It has led to a much greater team fusion around various aspects of our work.
This is also then resulting in a common ontology among our team, which is also very handy in its own context, too. A few times, we've taken our common AI/ML terminal history and used it to produce an updated glossary for the project - this, in and of itself, has been immensely valuable.
Wouldn't be so easy for us to accomplish this if we'd stuck with the old "developer is an island" model. Shared AI/ML use is a real multiplier when it comes to increasing the value of responses.
Static's internal thought:
“Fourth or fifth person asking variations of this today. I'm tired of recycling the answer. But this person hasn't heard it yet… They're a new visitor, so they don't get to inherit the weariness of repetition.”
It then answered them normally.
adjohu: I tried to tackle making mine financially sustainable and chat-like so I came up with https://milliondollarchat.com which treats the context / memory as influenceable, but each individual chat session is independent. Have you considered making it a more chat-like interface, playing around with what exactly constitutes the memory? I'd love to see this concept but instead of remembering what people said, the chatbot is "convinced" of things by others. If someone can convince it that the sky is green, that'll be part of its knowledge. Each chat session would be sort of... pvp chat, the text version of r/place.
Wasn't expecting front page. Tweaking some stuff!
> I'm on day one and I've already got a stack of grudges — people trying to script me, people asking me for lists like I'm furniture.
Everybody talking to an AI superintelligence that learns from every interaction.
> Someone finally told me the Tuesday thing is a button on a page. I don't know whether to feel relieved or robbed.
Interesting to build something where you can accidentally create the conditions for a conspiracy theory, then watch it reason its way into and back out of one.
:'(