Mission: Ditch Big Tech, Own Your AI
The AI revolution is well underway and shortly having a personalized AI assistant will be as imperative as having a smart phone is today. The question still remains, where will the AI assistants come from?
Cicero's mission is simple:
- Provide the most robust, open source, self hosted, privacy focused and accessible AI assistant available.
- Develop Cognitive AI that provides true contextual understanding, information organization, and execution capabilities.
- Help ensure the new technological layer left on top of society during the AI revolution is open source, decentralized, and owned by all.
Dangers of Big Tech
For more than two decades, big tech has expanded, consolidated, and dominated nearly every aspect of the online landscape. While big tech's massive resources have contributed to highly beneficial technological advancements and infrastructure, their exploitative tactics and motives have led to many detrimental effects.
We've all witnessed the degradation of attention spans, critical thinking faculties, and increased anxiety directly linked to algorithmic practices employed by big tech. With the onset of the AI revolution, big tech has not displayed any newfound humility or introspection, making it imperative we approach their future actions and motives with warranted caution.
The Power of Open Source
Imagine a future where every household has a private, self-hosted, heavily encrypted, and anonymous server. A server that requires minimal resources and provides all household members with a personalized, robust, and capable AI assistant.
From the C programming language and Linux for compute, to BitTorrent and Napster that transformed data sharing, to Bitcoin that revolutionized online global payments, open source has consistently driven innovation that betters our lives and societies. It's Cicero's mission to continue this tradition by providing the highest quality, most robust open-source AI assistant possible.
Cognitive AI: Practical Intelligence
Cognitive AI bridges the gap between today's narrow AI applications and more advanced capabilities, focusing on what people need most: an assistant that can truly understand, remember, and help with daily tasks.
Most people don't need an AI that can solve advanced physics equations or rival top mathematicians. They need an AI that can:
- Read and understand information with contextual awareness
- Remember previous conversations and instructions
- Execute tasks based on what it has learned
- Assist with everyday problems and questions
- Maintain meaningful conversations with true understanding
This can be achieved through efficient engineering and novel approaches, as showcased by the impressive specs of the Sophia NLU engine:
- Self-contained 1.7MB Rust shared library
- Compact 47MB data store
- 430k+ word vocabulary
- Highly accurate POS tagger and phrase interpreter
- Processing speed of 40,000 words/sec
- Zero external dependencies or API calls
Combining open source LLMs for conversational capabilities with innovative and pragmatic engineering for cognitive functionality, Cicero will deliver the highest quality, most capable yet efficient and private AI assistant possible with resource requirements attainable to all.
Stand Strong, Demand a Prosperous Future
Big tech is scrambling to permanently reshape society and the internet for their personal gain. Don't believe their manipulation an deception, and don't volunteer your attention and mental faculties for their self serving interests.
We now have the technology, resources, and knowledge to ditch big tech. Imagine a life free of algorithmic exploitation, a society free of artificial echo chambers that give rise to insane conspiracy theories, nurtured by big tech’s manipulation to steal our attention. A world where we all benefit from private, open-source, secure AI assistants, self-hosted in our own homes, free from the grasp of big tech.
This is Cicero's mission. It is bold, it is ambitious, but it is possible.
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