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Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)

Date: 2024-08-08
Presenter: RRBTC
Topics: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs

Alternate Deck Link: Published CASCDR Deck on SpeakerDeck

Outline & Notes​

Summary​

Lightning Network crash course + AI/LLM overview + how the CASCDR platform brings them together.

Lightning Crash Course​

  • Channels-based payment network built on Bitcoin
  • Peers lock up bitcoin UTXOs in shared channels
  • Payments routed between existing channels
  • Analogies: bar tabs, abacus beads
  • Advantages: low fees, high resolution (small amounts), instant, cryptographically provable, built-in privacy

AI / LLM Crash Course​

  • Decades of research culminating in widespread adoption
  • Rule-based programming has limitations: poor language/vision recognition, brittle
  • Neural networks overcome these limitations
  • Scaling applied to the entire internet produced human-like language understanding
  • "Under the hood: It's really just autocorrect but better!"
  • Key concept: "We've Quantized Language and Can Make It Into Math!"

AI Use Cases​

  • Customer service
  • Legal services
  • Code writing
  • Translation
  • Surveillance & psyops
  • Cross-industry productivity gains

AI Risks​

  • Privacy: surveillance at massive scale
  • Centralization: regulatory capture + data/tool hoarding by large entities
  • Antisocial use: manipulation and harm

Bitcoin's Role​

Bitcoin is a MAJOR tool in helping us solve these problems

"Use AI and bitcoin tools to empower the individual. To help users get the most out of the productivity gains from AI and to enrich their lives while preserving their privacy and respecting their beliefs, wishes and sovereignty. Furthermore, we want to empower a decentralized network of innovators to create value in the AI space and earn accordingly"

CASCDR Platform​

  • Decentralized AI platform built on Lightning Network
  • ChatGPT proxy via Lightning: sender privacy, anti-centralization, pay-as-you-go
  • Because it's on Lightning, AI agents can combine tools in series for complex tasks

CASCDR Services​

ServiceDescription
🧠General Purpose LLM (GPT)
👁AI Image Analysis
🖼️Text to Image Generation
🗣️AI Voice-to-Text Transcriptions
🎥YouTube Video Extraction
💾Storage as a Service
🔔YouTube Channel Alerts
📝AI Generated Summaries
✍️AI Generated Blog Posts
📬Nostr DM Delivery

Support & Access​

  • Main site: https://cascdr.xyz
  • Subscription: $9.99/month
  • Lightning Address: cascdr@getalby.com

Slides in this Deck​

Slide 2 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 3 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 4 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 5 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 6 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 7 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 8 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 9 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 10 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 11 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 12 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 13 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 14 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 15 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 16 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 17 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 18 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 19 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 20 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 21 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 22 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 23 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 24 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.

Slide 25 of 25 from 'Why Lightning + AI (Meetup #27)' (2024-08-08, RRBTC). Part of a presentation covering: lightning, ai, casdcr, plebdevs.