These are all interesting tasks. I note they are also all ‘team sports’… Matching similar, likeminded individuals…
What of more disparate encounters from more diverse backgrounds? Say to tackle challenges like climate change. When current forums are so disjointed that everyone ends up doing stuff in a vacuum, the solution takes years to reach the person providing the solution.
Here’s an idea…
Let’s imagine we are crafting an AI to curate a forum…
Let’s take a task… Newcomers…
There is clearly an arrivals policy for any Ecosystem so this AI’s task is to:
- Weed out destructive users / spam
- Keep an eye on new users, assist based on necessary tasks to access the forum like @discobot, or based on access patterns etc
- Find related topics of interest (HyDE based semantic search enabled on the OpenAI forum)
- Find and summarize external links on the subject
- Put this into a conversational form? @discobot doesn’t do much
For deeper ‘AI curation’ more information would need to be known, is this AI forum considering the things this user is posting, considering other similar things posted on other forums, searching websites, building a bigger picture?
How do these forum AIs communicate with each other? What privileges do they have? Is the expertise spread in forums not shared between forums interconnected by users?
How accurately is information checked by the AIs?
How open/closed are these forums? Do they restrict access to/of people from other Ecosystems? How does this create bias and how transparent is this with users?
How are these forums funded, how are they controlled?
Are these AI bots in a partnership with human moderators? Or is this envisioned totally AI Curated?
Could different forums maintain AI/human curated ‘shared threads’?
Would some users ‘game’ the AI?
Does it talk to you in a way that you understand best? Does this make you avoid forums that don’t know you so well? ^^