Greetings newsworthy hackers,

Finally done puppy-guarding my project and putting the demo out there into the world in all its jankiness. It's called IdiotBox, a combination of a (soon clickable) terminal/CLI, GUI and a push-button mic (eventually a pin/joystick combo for labeling images and ideas for data subsets to train layer 2 models upon).

We've got some outsized ambitions for the project but in short we're aiming to leverage ChatGPT to let users interface with the web through conversation giving them AI superpowers like some Harry Potter turned hacker.

We call our take on this new emerging category, we think of Chat Navigation or "Chat Nav" as the Discovery Horse -- a nod to Henry Ford as he popularized the automobile, later dissing short sighted consumers for wanting "faster horses." I think people want to think critically but our technology isn't geared for that. We have to create a Slower Search Engine through prompt-challenges by bots that get us to ask better questions and sit with information to process it. Nobody's asking for it.. but I think humanity needs it..

What's rad about this approach is, once it's ironed out better, anyone could "summon and summarize" information from the web whether or not they know how to or care to read or write. You can just talk to computers these days and process information.

With the type-out text in conjunction with text-to-voice or narration which we're thinking of calling ReadME. It can be enabled with command "TTS ON" in the terminal on the demo before doing a prompt: https://www.idiotbox.media

Once dialed in, this could even help people pick up reading if they can't.. perhaps a great means of leveling the playing field. I figure we position for radical accessibility, front and center as to help us better make use of AI and get more comfortable with it.

Alas, this is all a bit ahead of where we're currently at with the project. Which is why I was earnestly wondering if any of you could provide feedback: tear my arguments apart, brow-beat me with the shortcomings of my product, but perhaps shed some light on a better way to come at it.

As I allude to in the post toward the end, we're pausing web3 development but see it long-term as crucial to a) security in the coming era of deep-fakery, but also b) accelerating knowledge creation by incentivizing making the connections between disparate ideas to then train smaller niche interest language models atop the ChatGPT LLM. This of course is crowdsourcing labeling to get to the next step of knowledge and insight, well beyond information regurgitation which we're arguably just north of.

There's such a rad opportunity here to reinvent the web and mitigate the "confirmation bias engine" we've seemingly let evolve and let large swaths of users slip into. I see the perils of AI as furthering the disinformation age rather than some Terminator situation. This could be a chance to help people better learn to learn, create more shared understandings in the pursuit of knowledge and the means of trusting but verifying information's veracity, e.g. Truth.

Anyways, going to get back to building with my partner and AI wonk from Sweden and hope to gleam some insights from you kind scrappy souls. Hoping to round out the team in preparation for a seed round this Spring so if you or anyone you know with some chops or street cred see some potential here, I'd love to hear from you, DMs open on Twitter at @Kinchasa5000. I'm out of Milwaukee, WI and would LOVE to meetup with anyone in the Midwest or hop on a call with anyone who'd give me the time of day and thinks we could offer some mutual value.

Thanks so much again for scoping out my project and I'll chime into some other threads to see if I can give my 2.7 cents (adjusted for inflation of course), for what it's worth.

Happy Cinco de Mayo, be safe, be awesome.

Best,

Garett aka "Kinchasa"