For this month’s FutureMinds forum, @indiamikezulu provided a question and conversation topic for the community:
"Should teams/communities interact with potential adopters (etc.) on a stubbornly non-AI basis?
AI seems to be replacing any ‘real’ support on CEXes…I’d love to hear your opinion on AI’s impact overall…It has its uses, certainly, I understand, in respect of language translation; but it seems to me that it is bleeding from cryptos one of the last things that were fun in the early years, the splendidly international character of the geeks on the communities."
Should we embrace AI or do we prefer the authenticity of an “analog” community? Are there tools or resources that we are missing out on? What pitfalls do we need to avoid to remain authentic?
For example, a bot trained off the Peercoin forum could respond to simple questions in the chat. Is this a recipe for confusion and distance that distracts, or is this an exciting way to embrace newcomers without burning out the community?
From @Selfwithin:
“It’s all about Finding Balance. AI is nothing new. we have seen this type of AI tools before. It is just advancement of chip that process bulk data faster at faster speed using pre define parameter. Back in day i used to scrape date from Yahoo Question and Ansers and Post it on google blogger on pre-define keywords that are related to my blog audiance. google used to share advertizing revenew via adsense. We can adopte Using AI and increase out productivity managing Social Media to cater new user. Many of new user are lazy to read on Peercoin.net they will just come to discord and shoot up thier questions. we should have pre define answers that match the keyword from question and ans the new user.”
The initial question is about whether we even want to open this pandora’s box, but if we did, what would it look like exactly? Well, at first, we could just have a discourse chatbot talk to people via PMs, which could be a good resource in addition to the forum search function to find information.
We could also look into discord ai bots, e.g. AI Bot | Discord App Directory
My issue with these is that the Peercoin discord is not as useful as training data compared to the forum, in my opinion. However, there may yet be solutions for cross-platform training.
Are these tools useful enough as at-will search-engine-like utilities to justify the work required to implement them? Are they the bees knees and maybe we’ll allow an AI bot to post discourse topics and answer questions in public? Or is this all trash and a waste of time?
My honest opinion here is that AI is pretty gimmicky, but we should still keep an open mind for technical upgrades to our community resources. We would hope that training an AI on our community knowledge would help augment community resources, but it may take significant resources to get such a thing up and running. Maybe it would be a better use of time to continue to establish libraries and keyword look-up mechanisms for important Peercoin topics, such as Peercoin University and the website. One beneficial aspect of a decentralized community is that community members have diverse experiences and cover a wide array of talents and technical areas. We can hope that beneficial technologies will be represented in our community members, the key is balancing skepticism and efficiency of community resources with being open to learning about and possibly implementing these new tools.