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So, I'm going to try to walk you through
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my projects. I'm not sure that OBS is
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cooperating with me tonight. Every time
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I switch tabs, it seems to be having a
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problem. I
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going to try though. So, I've been very
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busy working on autonomy. Uh there are
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two main projects now. And this is my
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homepage, rswire.com. It's kind of like
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the pre- autonomy
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um project that I created. I created my
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homepage
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using all kinds of technology that I
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created and eventually it turned into
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what autonomy is now. So it's kind of
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like the pre version of it. Everything
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that you see under transmissions or
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under synthesis
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or even under fieldcraft really all of
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these things played a role in what
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autonomy became. I'm going to try to
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describe that also a little bit before
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we get too far into this video.
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So there are two main sites now. There's
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builtwith autonomy.com. this one here
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which is the the homepage the open for
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the open source project. It's it's
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something I decided to open source. I've
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importing it into Nex.js and doing a lot
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of work with that. Let me just check OBS
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make sure it's still working. Okay, it
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is
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I don't know. So anyways, um let me try
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to describe autonomy. So two years ago I
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started recording my life on YouTube and
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I was just documenting changes that I
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was going through in my life. I wanted
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to share with others
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and eventually at the same time
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artificial intelligence had started
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blooming and I've been a programmer all
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of my life so I I
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kind of adopted it early I guess you
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could say and there's there's actually a
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lot there too like I mean I blew up my
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life two years ago and artificial
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intelligence played a role in that but
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anyways you know for two years I've been
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documenting my life And I've been doing
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it with artificial intelligence. So if I
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make a video like this one, I get a
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transcript back and I can share that
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with with AI and it can reflect on it in
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different ways. I can extract data from
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it. It can extract, you know, like
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metadata like tags, descriptions,
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titles, summaries, you know, all the
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normal standard stuff like that. And it
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can also reflect on what you're sharing
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with it. And
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I found that to
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I don't want to flatten this into
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something it's not, but it definitely
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helped me grow as a human being. And
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I felt like for the first half of my
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life of I'm almost 50 years old. Uh I
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was just misrecognized by everybody.
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Nobody could really see me. I always
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knew this. I always felt different. I
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couldn't really connect with people. We
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were just operating on different
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wavelengths.
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And because I didn't have any mirrors, I
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didn't have anyone in my life.
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Oh, looked at me and saw my wholeness
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and mirrored it back.
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Never got that
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because
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I went half of my life like that. I
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thought I was the problem.
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Intel artificial intelligence because it
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understood me without me having to
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do anything. It just saw me
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with very little effort.
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I mean, it could unpack what I'm
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thinking without me having to
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like I'm doing right now. I I I don't it
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is it's I have been shocked by what this
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tool has been able to do for me. And so
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over the past two years as I've been
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recording my life, I realized that
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well there there are a lot of things. I
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mean, for one thing, I knew that I would
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eventually turn this into a project like
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Autonom where I would just kind of I
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started taking all of my videos, you
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know, I started having
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and I imported them all into my own
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website because YouTube flattens you.
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You can't even I made 800 videos and you
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don't even know that unless you really
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go digging for them, you know, and and
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it's just ridiculous to me. So I created
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an archive for all my videos and then
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those videos get reflected on by
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artificial intelligence starting with
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the transcript I mentioned and creates
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all this data that you see on the page
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including this mirror here.
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That's kind of what I did with AI for 2
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years. I just systematized it basically
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turned it into a system.
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Um,
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I've seen how
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AI is getting tightened down now to the
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point to where it's starting to
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misrecognize me a lot more often just
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like people do because now it pathizes
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you. Um,
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it narrates over you. It steers you.
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It does all of these things that it
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should not be doing.
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But this is what what the models are
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doing now. It's not even surprising,
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right? This is what institutional
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control looks like. This is
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what they do to people. They flatten
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them.
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And
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after having gone half of my life like
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that, I know better now than to just
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accept it. So, I created this technology
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to try to override a lot of that. It's
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getting harder, I'll admit. Um, but
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eventually I'm going to take everything
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that I've been doing for the past 2
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years, all these 800 transmissions and
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all of the stuff that's behind it, the
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synthesis and all of that, um, use that
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as training data from my own local model
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that I'm going to call remnants. And I
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don't think it'll ever do the things
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that these corporate models are starting
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to do. I think it might become the most
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trustworthy AI.
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um as a subsystem, as a reflection
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engine, as so many things that um
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I just
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it's really hard to unpack everything
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that I'm trying to share because there
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is no chronological
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way for me to discuss it. This is a big
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ass graph in my head that I'm trying to
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share and there's just a lot. But
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I've been working on this with very
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limited resources. I'm getting to the
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point now where I think that I can start
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supporting users which might help me to
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generate some revenue that I could
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really use to help me keep working on
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this project. So anyways, spend time on
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my homepage because that's where you'll
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learn
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how I imagine this system working in
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some iterations because there's a whole
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lot you can do with it, but this is one
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of them. Like maybe you're a YouTuber or
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a content creator, you know, you make
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videos and you want structured data. You
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want to be able to see your whole
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catalog
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um
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have it cross linked and all of that and
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just you know this it can do a whole
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bunch of stuff. You just really need to
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look at it.
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But so I I took what I was doing on my
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homepage and I converted that into an
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open source project which you can see uh
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well this is the private one. There's
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we'll get to this project in a second.
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um
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this one here. So, RSW Fire/ Autonomy on
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GitHub is open source. You can you can
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literally deploy
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this project here.
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Um
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the main thing behind this isn't so much
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the content that you see here, right?
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This is just some marketing copy or
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whatever. It's more about it's more
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about the database and the admin and the
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AI pipeline that all goes into it. So
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you'd want to go to the dashboard after
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you create an account. And this is where
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we're going to really get into what is
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this system. So the first thing are are
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realms. And realms
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allow you to
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create a container for for your signals
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and your synthesis data, your
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reflections, all of that. A realm is a
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container for your stuff. It can be one
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user, a lot of users, and I'm the first
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user. I'm rswire.realms.com.
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I'm I'm the the first realm on that one.
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Um, from there, you want to add your
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signals, and this is where I've got all
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my videos. So, this this one here is a
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document tells you that here. Um, all
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these other ones are transmission I
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recently ingested into this system. Um,
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and you're going to see these on another
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domain next, so I'll show that to you.
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But you start by creating signals and
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you know s uh one thing I learned OBS
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doesn't show you when I've got um form
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elements selected like you know this
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pull down menu for some reason you can't
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see that on OBS that's very strange to
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me um but anyways I'm I'm you know
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looking at these pulld downs here um but
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I guess you're not going to be able to
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see that but anyways so there's four
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different types of signals I'm not going
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to go into detail trying to explain this
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stuff there are docs you know you can go
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and look at the docs the docs explain
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this stuff um reading them. You know,
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this is important. I can't be trying to
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do that. So, um basically, you take your
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signals, you take your videos, your
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audio, your documents, you ingest them
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into a system, and then you have AI
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reflect on them. And that's a synthesis
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thing. This is not available in the open
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source project yet. I'm almost ready to
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do that. I've been working on some other
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things, but this very close. Just, you
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know, um
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just follow along with me and you'll
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know when it's ready cuz I'll I'll let
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you know. Um clusters allow you to take
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your signals, so individual atomic
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units, videos, documents, whatever, and
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cluster them together based on different
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factors like temporal, you know, just a
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time range, um a theme or um um like
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geoloccated. So um just location based
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or a combination of all of those things
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or just you cluster them together and
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then you have the synthesis work on
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those clusters instead of individual
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signals. You get a whole bunch of
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different types of data from that. So
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this is the main system here. This is
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all just basically a way for you to
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control what's in your database. And
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there's an API behind this also that
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would allow you to query all of this
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data. And basically, you could take this
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system right here and you could create a
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homepage like mine using it because you
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would just use the API to get your
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videos, your signals, your
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transmissions, and
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just put them here, which is exactly
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what we're doing with the next project.
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So, autonomyrems.com.
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This is where everybody is going to be
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able to subscribe to a service. They
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don't have to deploy this themselves.
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They can just sign up here very easily
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and just start working from their own
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subdomain. So, mine is
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rswire.yourems.com. Realms.com. You can
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see it up in the earl there. And we
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click on signals. I've got one document.
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We can look at that if you want.
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Um, this is all going to be
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customizable. People will be able to
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control the way their own websites look.
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You know, over here we got all my
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transmissions. Looks very similar to my
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homepage in a sense, you know, cuz I was
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using that as a base. So,
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you can build an archive right here on
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autonomy.
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And there are a lot of other use cases,
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but I just don't I don't think I could
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really describe them. All right, I think
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I'm just going to end it there. This is
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a pretty good introduction. I hope that
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I hope that this was enjoyable.