Omoikane Project Commentary at the end of June

2023-06-29~2023-07-02

Project applied for OpenAI's "Democratic Inputs to AI" grant in collaboration with Code for Japan.

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Project Summary.

The good-natured old man project is a joint application with Code for Japan for OpenAI's "Democratic Inputs to AI" grant.

The objective of "Democratic Input to AI" is to improve the democratic process (i.e., the decision-making process by many people) that assumes the existence of AI, and the objective of the Omoikane project is to solve the challenges of this process through SF Prototyping and digital technology.

Participants will read SF Short Shorts, vote on them in Polis, and write their own SF Short Shorts with LLM's support.

Progress this week.

We have submitted a grant application to OpenAI in collaboration with Code for Japan. We are currently awaiting review.

Without waiting for the acceptance/rejection results, we have started recruiting project participants; we have created a description on Scrapbox and prepared a participation form. Currently there are 24 participants and over 200 pages and 1000 links have been created.

The writing process using ChatGPT was shared by experienced writers, and several participants who had no previous SF writing experience created works.

We have also observed the phenomenon of Polis voting results generating ideas and motivation for the creation of new stories.

Schedule for next week and beyond.

We will be attending two events next week. We will prepare materials for an LT for the participants and aim to involve people from different communities to promote the project.

In addition, OpenAI will announce the results of the judging on July 15.

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The project became interesting as we were discussing what to apply for Democratic Inputs to AI, so we started running it before it was selected.

Incorporate SF Prototyping to improve careful deliberation methods.

Anyone can join: /omoikane/join the project.

from /omoikane/project-goals.

Our project aims for three outcomes:

The first goal is to compile the results of a careful deliberation involving several hundred Japanese on "the question about AI assistants".

The second goal is to validate a new careful deliberation methodology based on SF Prototyping through this consultation.

This is intended to be applicable to topics other than AI.

I strongly feel this need from past Civic Tech activities.

The third goal is to use the information from our deliberative process to create an AI that reflects the culture and thinking of the Japanese.

#Japanese Culture AI

This AI will be made available worldwide, allowing people to converse in their own languages.

This approach promotes cross-cultural understanding beyond language barriers and is a prerequisite for Global Deliberations.

/omoikane/founding-member-introductions.

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