Building My Digital Brain
This is the first in a series where I share my journey towards building my own digital brain. In this article, I'll cover: 1. What a digital brain is 2. Why I want to own my digital brain 3. How I plan to use it 4. The components
An AI Driven chatbot or what I refer to as a Digital Brain, is running for Parliament in the UK. I asked "AI-Steve" what he thought about my concern that centralized AI may take over politics. Here's what he told me: What do you think?
I’ve spent the last few months going deep into the land of AI. I’ve learned about “Tokens” and “Context Windows”. I’ve gone down the rabbit holes of “LLMs” (Large Language Models) and “RAG” (Retrieval Augmented Generation). I’ve even toyed with “locally hosting” my own “open source”
I’m seeking feedback on a free community I am considering launching. The purpose of the community is to help people create, control, and leverage their own digital brain. Below is an overview of the concept. Appreciate any feedback on whether or not this is something that resonates. Thanks! Dave
For thousands of years work meant mainly manual labor. Then, we replaced manual labor with machines. Now we work on things that require thinking. Cognitive labor defines our current work. In the coming years we will replace cognitive labor with artificial intelligence. This means the future of work is emotional
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are revolutionary There are many reasons why. But the main reason is because they allow us to own digital property. Why is this important? Because our prosperity depends on our ability to own property. This is just as true in the digital world as it is
AI is a general purpose technology. A technology that can be used in many other technologies. Electricity is also a general purpose technology. The lightbulb is one of many technologies electricity enables. Looking at how electricity changed everything, makes it obvious how AI will change everything. Let’s dig in:
We’re now in the era of the AI driven web. We don’t choose what we see on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Netflix and most other corporate networks. Their AI chooses for us...Or at least it makes a strong recommendation. Recent AI breakthroughs are accelerating this trend. But they’
AI = knowledge Knowledge = power Knowledge = wealth Therefore: AI = Power + Wealth Power and wealth will flow to those that own AI. If a few companies and/or governments own AI, there will be massive concentration of wealth and power. If everyone owns their own AI, there will be massive distribution of
Most people think crypto is a scam. Or at best a casino where people gamble on magic internet money. You can’t blame them. There’s lots of scams in crypto. There’s also lots of crypto currencies that exist primarily for people to gamble on. But if you think
Technology revolutions have always created more high quality jobs. Not less. I believe the same will hold true in the AI revolution. I’m confident of this because of how jobs are created. Don’t believe me? Let’s look together: How Jobs are Created Jobs are created by a
Netscape was the first mass market web browser. Before Netscape you essentially had to write code to use the internet. After Netscape anyone could use the internet by clicking around like we do today. Marc Andreessen was a co-founder of Netscape, and one of the inventors of the modern