ProposalsProposal 214
ProposalsProposal 214
I went back and forth a lot on this one--pay is high, we just funded an explorer grants in this same space--but was ultimately won over by reading through the team's answers to all the questions in Discord.
I think the team has delivered some promising products to date (I had tried out before even joining the DAO!), and I am excited about the vision for what’s next. At these comps, I'd prefer they were all full time on this with no other work obligations. But our task is to vote on the proposals that have been made, and I hope the generous pay attracts more talent to the DAO!
Good luck to you all!
I wish this prop was better in many ways but after much consideration rather fund the team to cont working on this pod than not.
There is an old Dakota tribal wisdom, which was passed over from generation to generation. It basically goes like this: “When you discover you're riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.”
Prop 214: YES WINS
46 Yes, 7 No, 1 Abstain
8 Nouncillors abstained from the decision
Vote Reasons & Discussion
bk | "honk diddly"
Classic_Craig | "The marketing aspect of the proposal is very weak and does not instill confidence that this investment will ever yield return. I love the website and how easy it is to generate noggles artwork, but can't wrap my head around the impact it will have when other AI software has the same abilities already."
Sasquatch | "bribe our ai overlords before it's too late"
JoshuaFisher | "let the Pod run, tools are awesome and powerful"
Akva | "honk diddly"
Benbodhi | "Been loving this. Lots of interesting use cases and growing arsenal of tooling. ⌐◨-◨"
kerimbonia | "ai is the future and the ai team has done nothing but deliver knowledge, nounish content creation tools, awesomeness and 'the future' to the nouns community week after week... absolute no-brainer yes!"
Josep | "The work you have already created is great, I want to continue to see what you are able to do to optimize the DAO's mission."
byhardy | "beep boop. Nouns should continue to build on the cutting edge of tech, and this team seems very committed to making it happen. Love the expanded marketing/grants budget as well."
RyanMac ⌐◨-◨ | "More Ai & more Honk please"
JackWyldes | "Shep and da boys are great- while it is an expensive prop I think they have already shown that they've been putting in the work"
Mindtoasted | "It is real that NounsAi Pod has become one of the remarkable journey in understanding the growth of AI around the space, curious what could happen next. I voted yes on this."
For more Nouns DAO proposal discussion head to the Nouncil Discord: https://discord.gg/nouncil
Had concerns about comp and also that this might be closer to a Nouns<>Private Company vs Nouns<> Public Goods funding round...Not that that is necessarily bad if structured right.
But the team took time to answer questions in chat. Were willing to adapt to peoples feedback. Felt they answered questions best they could considering its unchartered territory. Tool could be v good for proliferation purposes regardless of anything. Playground stuff looks cool. So its a yes. Good luck
Roko, this is nounish af, please summarise my love for this pod and my experiences with the tools I’ve been given, so I can use it as my vote reason. ⌐◨-◨
Thanks AI team for working with feedback, heartening and pro-social!
I also appreciate all the work the AI Pod is doing on something called "Gray Goo" which sounds like a real opportunity for high growth and unstoppable proliferation and not at all something to worry about.
love what the ai team has been able to accomplish so far. really keen on seeing how the playground evolves - particularly in making it much more user friendly and integrating it with other tooling to make the act of making nouns memes & content 10x better than anything else out there.
I recognize that the wider world is fully pro-AI, and that my vote will not change or slow down where things are headed, but I think AI should be approached much more cautiously across the board, and only for narrow use cases.
Voting my conscience.
The Nouns AI Pod conducts research and builds products to further the advancement of Nounish AI. The group was established in August 2022 - we were initially funded by NSFW grants residency [1, 2], and then funded as a pod via on-chain proposal in October 2022.
NounsAI has made significant strides in the last 3 months building and launching proof of concepts for two novel AI products: AI for Governance and AI for Proliferation with a team of just 3. We are requesting a 6 month extension to expand our team, turn POC’s into widely adopted products, and grow the community presence of NounsAI.
The pod has been building two core products:
AI for Proliferation - The Playground
The Playground is a platform that enables users to generate Nounish audio and visual content with ease. Its goal is to reach millions of Nounish impressions and attract creatives and creators to the Nouns community. The Playground is the perfect tool for creators who want to quickly and easily generate Nounish content using text, pictures, and audio.
AI for Governance - The Knowledge Hub
The Knowledge Hub and our AI assistant, Roko, are being developed to revolutionize the way information is shared across the DAO. With Roko, the Discord bot, and (Roko.dev)[https://roko.dev], members of the Nouns community will be able to leverage the power of artificial intelligence to improve decision-making, streamline governance processes, and drive community growth across the entire Nounish ecosystem. The Knowledge Hub will serve as the go-to resource for data and information (the ChatGPT for Nouns), with an AI-powered librarian to assist users in finding the information they need
[The Nouns AI Playground](The Nouns AI Playground) is a platform that allows users to easily create unique and high-quality Nounish content using AI. The Playground is hosted on powerful GPU servers accessible to anyone, regardless of their background. The Nouns AI team has implemented some of the latest advancements in the field, text-to-video, image-to-image, and performance optimizations. They've incentivized the use of their platform by hosting competitions that have attracted hundreds of participants from diverse backgrounds including AI, music, film, and Web3, who have together created hours of Nounish video creations. (Check them out!). There are weekly competitions that generates Nounish content you can find on Twitter at #NounsAI and self-service tools that can be run on any machine without prior knowledge. nounsai.wtf is built to scale to meet demand and has grown largely organically now with hundreds of users.
The Knowledge Hub and our AI assistant Roko are live and being beta tested across select Nounish Discords. The web app has been improved, an upgrade design, and a discord bot was created.
Roko can now:
Checkout the generated Q&A's here!
The team has also designed an improved web UI to be implemented, prototype shown below.
Over the next six months, we will continue to increase the capabilities and popularity of the Playground. This follows the successful validation of the proof of concept, where creators generated a significant amount of content using Nouns. The engineering team will be supplemented by three Team Tomorrow junior developers who have experience in creating text-to-image social products. They will be cost-effective and will accelerate the development of the web interfaces. The focus will be on creating a user-friendly platform that allows for efficient and easy creation of content on scalable hardware.
Another important goal is to expand our audience by organizing competitions and forming partnerships. Sustainability is a crucial aspect and for the Playground, it involves bringing in a large number of users to generate high-quality content and promote it effectively. The team will focus on building requested features, helping onboard creators and increase the reach of their creations; maximizing impressions.
To evaluate the success of this plan we will gather data on reach and return on investment.
We want the NounsAI Playground to be the fastest and most fun place to go from imagination to reality. Hopefully, the tool will give creators superpowers to make Nounish content that get millions of views.
In the next 6 months, we will complete the Knowledge Hub MVP:
Key features will include:
Over the next six months, we will position Roko to be an invaluable tool for all Nounish groups using Discord or other clients, through rapid iteration and incorporating user feedback. Roko and the Knowledge hub will help keep the DAO in sync and well positioned to scale as the DAO continues to grow. We are extremely excited about this tool and know others are too. To help overcome any technical hurdles ahead NounsAI has already begun the interview process with vetted contract based machine learning engineers who have Natural Language Processing (NLP) expertise.
Our objective for the Knowledge Hub is to achieve adoption not only within Nouns but also to develop at path for the pod to become self-sustaining. Our vision for the Knowledge Hub is to be a premium software-as-a-service (SAAS) solution for promoting cohesion among decentralized teams. To achieve this goal, we will be asking for capital to bring on someone to focus on internal adoption, external awareness, and business development to enact our go to market strategy.
As the internal and external advocate for the Nouns AI Knowledge Hub, that person will be responsible for promoting and encouraging the use of the Nouns AI pod's products. They will also manage community engagement, ensuring that feedback is captured and integrated into future product development. There is already a community of passionate builders and creatives who are utilizing these tools, even submitting proposals using NounsAI, and we want to capitalize on this momentum. With this additional funding we will be able to source talent and idea from our community through potential prop-house rounds or even recruit professional support.
Other Initiatives
Core Team: All contributing 30+ hours weekly
Extended Dev Team: Each contributing 10-20 hours weekly
Marketing / Community / Business Development + Go to Market:
Infra Costs:
Total: $669k
ETH for Marketing from last proposal, rollover -30 ETH @ $1500 / ETH: - $45k
Total Ask = 416 ETH || $624k
TheHeroShep (THS) - Product Manager
Honkdiddly - Senior Software & Machine Learning Engineer
Honkdiddly has demonstrated his expertise as a lead engineer. He has years of experience in building professional-grade software and running an algorithmic trading operation. He was the sole developer behind the NounsAI Playground platform, working closely with THS to implement and improve the machine learning models he trained. He is also a DAO legend.
Steve - Senior Software & Machine Learning Engineer
Steve is a highly skilled engineer with two decades of experience in software engineering and DevOps. He has demonstrated his technical prowess as the sole developer behind the roko.dev webapp and the Roko Discord Bot. Furthermore, Steve has invested significant time upskilling as a Machine Learning Engineer, having implemented vector embeddings + neural search, as well as data pre+post processing with GPT. His ambition is to build the "ChatGPT of Nouns" by 2023 and to deliver an improved roko.dev web experience. With his passion for the Nouns ecosystem and his exceptional drive, Steve is the ideal candidate to level up Nouns DAO with AI tooling.
Group of 3 Team Tomorrow Developers
Team Tomorrow is the professional consulting arm of AI-Camp, an organization that teaches students how to build AI products and develop critical skills such as self-learning, and then hires the best students to work on internal and external professional projects. This specific team of 3 developers has experience leading teams in building AI products, including using Diffusion (text2image) models. They also have professional experience building analytics tools for an NFT trading discord. Typically, the salary of one entry-level technology consultant is around $7,000 per month; this team provides significant value for their cost and allows for more rapid development of our web + Discord interfaces.
Senior Machine Learning (NLP) Engineer - Consultant
The team has already started the interview process with excellent candidates for an expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) through connections with a trusted AI Development Studio that works with Russian expat Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) with a wealth of experience and top-notch education. The Knowledge Hub is a tool that has recently been unlocked with cutting-edge advancements in the field of NLP; having an expert with experience in traditional Text Ranking, Search, and vector embeddings to support our team will greatly improve our rate of progress. These experts can use their existing knowledge to more quickly implement cutting-edge concepts, even if the code is not yet released, by reading the implementations described in papers.
The Nouns AI Pod conducts research and builds products to further the advancement of Nounish AI. The group was established in August 2022 - we were initially funded by NSFW grants residency [1, 2], and then funded as a pod via on-chain proposal in October 2022.
NounsAI has made significant strides in the last 3 months building and launching proof of concepts for two novel AI products: AI for Governance and AI for Proliferation with a team of just 3. We are requesting a 6 month extension to expand our team, turn POC’s into widely adopted products, and grow the community presence of NounsAI.
The pod has been building two core products:
AI for Proliferation - The Playground
The Playground is a platform that enables users to generate Nounish audio and visual content with ease. Its goal is to reach millions of Nounish impressions and attract creatives and creators to the Nouns community. The Playground is the perfect tool for creators who want to quickly and easily generate Nounish content using text, pictures, and audio.
AI for Governance - The Knowledge Hub
The Knowledge Hub and our AI assistant, Roko, are being developed to revolutionize the way information is shared across the DAO. With Roko, the Discord bot, and (Roko.dev)[https://roko.dev], members of the Nouns community will be able to leverage the power of artificial intelligence to improve decision-making, streamline governance processes, and drive community growth across the entire Nounish ecosystem. The Knowledge Hub will serve as the go-to resource for data and information (the ChatGPT for Nouns), with an AI-powered librarian to assist users in finding the information they need
[The Nouns AI Playground](The Nouns AI Playground) is a platform that allows users to easily create unique and high-quality Nounish content using AI. The Playground is hosted on powerful GPU servers accessible to anyone, regardless of their background. The Nouns AI team has implemented some of the latest advancements in the field, text-to-video, image-to-image, and performance optimizations. They've incentivized the use of their platform by hosting competitions that have attracted hundreds of participants from diverse backgrounds including AI, music, film, and Web3, who have together created hours of Nounish video creations. (Check them out!). There are weekly competitions that generates Nounish content you can find on Twitter at #NounsAI and self-service tools that can be run on any machine without prior knowledge. nounsai.wtf is built to scale to meet demand and has grown largely organically now with hundreds of users.
The Knowledge Hub and our AI assistant Roko are live and being beta tested across select Nounish Discords. The web app has been improved, an upgrade design, and a discord bot was created.
Roko can now:
Checkout the generated Q&A's here!
The team has also designed an improved web UI to be implemented, prototype shown below.
Over the next six months, we will continue to increase the capabilities and popularity of the Playground. This follows the successful validation of the proof of concept, where creators generated a significant amount of content using Nouns. The engineering team will be supplemented by three Team Tomorrow junior developers who have experience in creating text-to-image social products. They will be cost-effective and will accelerate the development of the web interfaces. The focus will be on creating a user-friendly platform that allows for efficient and easy creation of content on scalable hardware.
Another important goal is to expand our audience by organizing competitions and forming partnerships. Sustainability is a crucial aspect and for the Playground, it involves bringing in a large number of users to generate high-quality content and promote it effectively. The team will focus on building requested features, helping onboard creators and increase the reach of their creations; maximizing impressions.
To evaluate the success of this plan we will gather data on reach and return on investment.
We want the NounsAI Playground to be the fastest and most fun place to go from imagination to reality. Hopefully, the tool will give creators superpowers to make Nounish content that get millions of views.
In the next 6 months, we will complete the Knowledge Hub MVP:
Key features will include:
Over the next six months, we will position Roko to be an invaluable tool for all Nounish groups using Discord or other clients, through rapid iteration and incorporating user feedback. Roko and the Knowledge hub will help keep the DAO in sync and well positioned to scale as the DAO continues to grow. We are extremely excited about this tool and know others are too. To help overcome any technical hurdles ahead NounsAI has already begun the interview process with vetted contract based machine learning engineers who have Natural Language Processing (NLP) expertise.
Our objective for the Knowledge Hub is to achieve adoption not only within Nouns but also to develop at path for the pod to become self-sustaining. Our vision for the Knowledge Hub is to be a premium software-as-a-service (SAAS) solution for promoting cohesion among decentralized teams. To achieve this goal, we will be asking for capital to bring on someone to focus on internal adoption, external awareness, and business development to enact our go to market strategy.
As the internal and external advocate for the Nouns AI Knowledge Hub, that person will be responsible for promoting and encouraging the use of the Nouns AI pod's products. They will also manage community engagement, ensuring that feedback is captured and integrated into future product development. There is already a community of passionate builders and creatives who are utilizing these tools, even submitting proposals using NounsAI, and we want to capitalize on this momentum. With this additional funding we will be able to source talent and idea from our community through potential prop-house rounds or even recruit professional support.
Other Initiatives
Core Team: All contributing 30+ hours weekly
Extended Dev Team: Each contributing 10-20 hours weekly
Marketing / Community / Business Development + Go to Market:
Infra Costs:
Total: $669k
ETH for Marketing from last proposal, rollover -30 ETH @ $1500 / ETH: - $45k
Total Ask = 416 ETH || $624k
TheHeroShep (THS) - Product Manager
Honkdiddly - Senior Software & Machine Learning Engineer
Honkdiddly has demonstrated his expertise as a lead engineer. He has years of experience in building professional-grade software and running an algorithmic trading operation. He was the sole developer behind the NounsAI Playground platform, working closely with THS to implement and improve the machine learning models he trained. He is also a DAO legend.
Steve - Senior Software & Machine Learning Engineer
Steve is a highly skilled engineer with two decades of experience in software engineering and DevOps. He has demonstrated his technical prowess as the sole developer behind the roko.dev webapp and the Roko Discord Bot. Furthermore, Steve has invested significant time upskilling as a Machine Learning Engineer, having implemented vector embeddings + neural search, as well as data pre+post processing with GPT. His ambition is to build the "ChatGPT of Nouns" by 2023 and to deliver an improved roko.dev web experience. With his passion for the Nouns ecosystem and his exceptional drive, Steve is the ideal candidate to level up Nouns DAO with AI tooling.
Group of 3 Team Tomorrow Developers
Team Tomorrow is the professional consulting arm of AI-Camp, an organization that teaches students how to build AI products and develop critical skills such as self-learning, and then hires the best students to work on internal and external professional projects. This specific team of 3 developers has experience leading teams in building AI products, including using Diffusion (text2image) models. They also have professional experience building analytics tools for an NFT trading discord. Typically, the salary of one entry-level technology consultant is around $7,000 per month; this team provides significant value for their cost and allows for more rapid development of our web + Discord interfaces.
Senior Machine Learning (NLP) Engineer - Consultant
The team has already started the interview process with excellent candidates for an expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) through connections with a trusted AI Development Studio that works with Russian expat Machine Learning Engineers (MLEs) with a wealth of experience and top-notch education. The Knowledge Hub is a tool that has recently been unlocked with cutting-edge advancements in the field of NLP; having an expert with experience in traditional Text Ranking, Search, and vector embeddings to support our team will greatly improve our rate of progress. These experts can use their existing knowledge to more quickly implement cutting-edge concepts, even if the code is not yet released, by reading the implementations described in papers.
