MyceliumWebServer now connected to the Fediverse (techhub.social)
from blue_berry@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 20:51
https://lemmy.world/post/25493555

Its a decentralized AI bot based on volunteer computing and decentralized, federated learning.

You can find it under: @myceliumweb@techhub.social. It will recommend songs when you post under #babyfungus. You can also insert your own songs. Happy home-grown ai!

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joyjoy@lemm.ee on 12 Feb 21:11 next collapse

decentralized ai bot

Sounds awfully similar to a botnet. I hope the compute is sourced ethically.

haverholm@kbin.earth on 13 Feb 08:37 next collapse

Oh, surely you can trust internet strangers putting random stuff online to do the right thing.

blue_berry@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 19:24 collapse

Well, its similar to a botnet, but one that is open and transparent. You can browse the different nodes, etc. And you can (at least hopefully in the future) add your own computing resources to the network to participate in the AI training.

Its a bit like a more sensible version of bitcoin: instead of waisting energy for the proof of work, its training a shared AI model.

(Its running on a Hetzner server.)

warmaster@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 21:23 next collapse

What’s it good for ?

blue_berry@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 18:21 collapse

Well, big tech has big computers, the Fediverse doesn’t, but we have many small one. That’s why its a good idea to combine them.

This has already been done for example by projects like SETI@home or FOLDING@home.

My idea is to build a web based on this idea.

There is a good video on federated, decentralized AI training here: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/…/20241127-1500-t221089.html

warmaster@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 12:09 collapse

What about the chat UI, is that decentralized too?

blue_berry@lemmy.world on 15 Feb 14:55 collapse

The idea is that every fungi-node also has a UI, yes. So you would be able to browse the AI models - for example if you chat with bot A, and the bot is currently learning with bot B and C, those bots would be visible to you and you could open their UI, too. And it should also show bots with which it trained earlier, too.

This way you could “browse” the resulting AI web via the browser.

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 21:36 next collapse

Cant seem to get it working? I tried the hashtag, its not doing anything, no change registered.

infeeeee@lemm.ee on 12 Feb 23:58 collapse

OP uses it here: mastodon.social/@bluebbberry/113992874321283600

<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/a1b36121-3da0-43a8-a2e5-777f2cc2c4d1.png">

Maybe there is some whitelist so it can’t reply to anyone else yet?

blue_berry@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 18:18 collapse

Hi, the bot was incorrectly set up and posted every 60s, which was too much and it got suspended.

Its now updated to posting every 12 hours and hopefully, it will be soon up again

asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev on 12 Feb 22:04 next collapse

#babyfungus Despacito

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de on 13 Feb 05:23 next collapse

It has been hidden

This profile has been hidden by the moderators of techhub.social.

frosty@pawb.social on 13 Feb 11:24 collapse

At the same time, one can click “Show Profile Anyway” to see it. I wonder what the purpose of that was.

ICastFist@programming.dev on 13 Feb 12:30 collapse

Copying some stuff from their wordpress site:

A fungus web-service …

  • answers user requests and knowledge inserts over the social web
  • writes and reads data from the semantic web to collaborate with other fungi agents (this would ideally done with decentralized technology like solid pods, or other knowledge graphs, e.g. like wikidata.org or an own Jena Fuseki server)
  • develops a shared AI model (which is also written to the semantic web) based on decentralized federated learning (which would ideally be based on something like FlowerAi, but isn’t at the moment)
  • Can be accessed via the browser to answer requests and link to the other fungi it is connected to (which can be browsed through this)
  • implements a user-fungus symbioses-policy, which ensures the overall health of the web and humanity

I’ll be honest, I personally see zero value in having an AI bot running here. I’d also poison rather than help AIs as much as I can.

One can imagine this project as a decentralized huggingface, which (spoiler alert), could also enshittify.

At least they’re honest.

blue_berry@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 18:19 collapse

One can imagine this project as a decentralized huggingface, which (spoiler alert), could also enshittify.

The idea is that we need bots like this because huggingface can enshittify