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About my fascination with AI Agents
What fascinates me about agents is that these programs have agency—they can perform an action and then reason about the response they receive. The ability to make choices and act upon them in a goal-directed manner implies autonomy, intentionality, and the capacity to influence one's environment or situation.
For example, in the context of AI or programs, agency would mean having the ability...
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As AI agents with true agency become more integrated into our lives, the imperative to govern their actions for safety and security grows.
Here are three articles where I explore governance frameworks and threat scenarios in digital and physical realms.
Effective Risk Management Strategies for Autonomous Agents in AI Development
Illuminating the intricate interplay between AI safety and AI...
Encyclopedia Autonomica
Your guide through the fascinating world of cognitive agents
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AI had a few interesting moments lately. The pace of innovation keeps the field lively—especially when it starts redefining what we thought was possible.
A couple of these recent shifts are worth a closer look:
NVIDIA - Search and Summarize Vast Volumes of Visual Data
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/vi...
Microsoft open sources Magnetic-One a generalist multi-agent system for solving...
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I just published on Encyclopedia Autonomica: a deep dive into real-time market data forecasting. In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, the ability to accurately anticipate market shifts is crucial. This article explores Transformer as the latest methodologies for refining market data forecasts and discusses the transformative potential of AI-driven insights.
Check it out to see how...
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I created Encyclopedia Autonomica to bridge a gap I noticed in conversations about AI, cognitive agents, and synthetic data. While much of what’s written in this space is either high-level theory or buried in academic detail, I wanted to offer something different: a digest that makes complex topics both accessible and actionable. My years in investment, risk, and tech management taught me that...
Encyclopedia Autonomica
Your guide through the fascinating world of cognitive agents
Substack's most exclusive Cognitive Agents Newsletter
Where Agent= Goals + Reasoning/Planning + Memory + Tools
Project Reviews, Paper Explainers, Job Postings, Code Clinics.
Encyclopedia Autonomica
Your guide through the fascinating world of cognitive agents
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My agent will have an avatar to anthropomorphize him.
I will have an avatar on social media that will be another me, but protect my identity.
Also, read William Gibson's Idoru. There is a product on the intersection of 3D Zoom sessions and Avatars that has not been explored yet.
What purpose will the AI avatars serve?
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Who benefits the most from the current AI hype?
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Every single cloud provider.
Why?
It's all about data center utilization.
Is AI the greatest revolution since fire?
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You have a largely of model risk (i.e., OpenAI, Google, et al change er ugprade the model without telling you)
Then you have vendor risk. It's a variety from the above, but your API connection could be removed at any point in time.
Hence, I have become a proponent of Open Source, Local LLMs, and proper evaluation frameworks for prompt quality
Too risky to build things in Generative AI right now?
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For the written part, it's me and my GPT+Bard friends. But mostly me.
For the visuals, it's a local Stable Diffusion instance.
How do you create your content?
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I am reviewing AI Agent research papers for my substack (https://jdsemrau.substack.com) and every week someone posts new ones.
So I will be busy for a while I guess.
How to brainstorm ideas for social media posting?
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Using (and building) finclout.io to automatically tag news articles and recommend them. Helps me a lot.
What kind of AI-based tools are you using?
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Finclout is a crypto-enabled SaaS tool and community that helps you to -
1. Source news in context faster
2. Manage on-chain reputation
3. Add context to insights, and
4. Earn more through crypto-based embedded platform monetization.
1. Source news in context faster
2. Manage on-chain reputation
3. Add context to insights, and
4. Earn more through crypto-based embedded platform monetization.
Finclout
Monetizable social intelligence for investments
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Build an audience for your product first.
What's the best startup advice you had ever received?
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I started building finclout, hyperfocus.ai, and Red Bike because I was dissatisfied with
(1) biased news that always reaches me too late to take proper action,
(2) the time-intensity of constantly tracking social media to keep up to date with niche investment ideas,
(3) my inability to earn from my knowledge on social media even, and
(4) the noise of everyone constantly commenting on most...
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Revenue. Revenue. Revenue.
For finclout.io, I was initially targeting a free service that similar to StackOverflow allows for efficient Q&A, but it attracted not the customer segment that I wanted and that would give useful feedback.
What is growth for you in your startup?
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I like IPInfo on finclout.io because of the simplicity of the API and the nice Python integration.
Problem is that I recently started to use Cloudflare to speed up the page loading after a user complained and now the flask backed does only recognize the proxy
Which geolocation service do you use to locate your users?
Harsh
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No-code website tools give me anxiety.
I am a Carrd customer and I am struggling with the simplest things.
Example: hyperfocus.ai
For me it's easier to self-host some bootstrap template and customize it here / there.
Example : finclout. io
Have you published a website before? What was your experience?
AlexS
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Finclout!
I use the app for research my content marketing for my Medium:
1. BBBY
https://medium.com/@jsemrau/a-sa...
2. DWAC
https://medium.com/@jsemrau/the-...
Earned 50cents on Medium and 6 USD on Finclout with these posts.
Rockets!
What are your favorite productivity tools? and WHY?
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My 2 cents here
Retention and Compounding matter when building a solid sales funnel.
Yet, this is different for each product and customer type.
What did not work for me working at all while scaling Finclout.io was
1. Messaging people on social (Reddit / Twitter/others)
- Users on these platforms get loads of scammy messages
2. Posting content on Twitter / Reddit
- There is just so...
Growth experiments lessons 🚀
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