@visca.near [Posted on Developer DAO Board](https://near.social/#/devgovgigs.near/widget/Post?id=640) ## Solution: NearGPT - Your Own Personalized Assistant For Everything $NEAR ###### Requested amount: 1200 USDC ###### Requested sponsor: @neardevgov.near --- ##### The Issue at Hand: Hiring someone who can become fluent in the technical nuances of a company can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. This is especially critical for customer support/success professionals, so it’s often broken apart into Level 1, 2, and 3 agents. Hiring is especially difficult (and expensive) when candidates must know Near-specific topics (i.e., Nightshade, Threshold Proof-of-Stake). Beyond hiring, maintaining a steady workforce can be difficult with benefits, raises, turnover, interpersonal office turmoil, and dynamic staffing requirements based on the economic environment. Maintaining the right workforce is especially critical as crypto information volume can rapidly escalate 24/7 with aggressive price swings, inducing emotional volatility. Staffing availability is difficult and expensive to predict given these dynamics. These challenges are amplified by the constant information influx and emotional volatility caused by 24/7 aggressive price swings within the crypto realm. --- ##### Our Solution - NearGPT (Powered By Our 'VINA' Architecture): Welcome to the cutting-edge community management with NearGPT, our pioneering GPT4 AI solution rooted in the transformative VINA architecture. VINA - Visca's Interoperable Neural Agents - is currently under active development and iterative refinement. It's more than a system; it's an ongoing evolution - a revolutionary framework crafted to facilitate smooth transitions between various Large Language Models (LLMs). Designed with a future-proof approach, VINA currently operates on GPT4 but boasts future extensibility and portability, ensuring your investment today is ready for tomorrow's advancements. NearGPT, underpinned by the VINA architecture, is your dedicated, ever-vigilant 24/7 community manager, adept at managing all Near-related information and associated ecosystem projects. This game-changing AI comes with an extraordinary economic advantage, reducing costs by 95-98% compared to traditional human hiring, setting a new paradigm in cost-effective community management. What sets NearGPT apart? Its ease of training. All it needs is simply uploading files to your company-specific OneDrive folder. Magically, NearGPT absorbs and adapts, learning new project information without the need for your continuous manual input. NearGPT is not just an AI, it is an entity with a personality. You can customize each VINA avatar with a unique face, voice, and personality. They scale effortlessly to cater to unlimited 1-on-1 conversations, delivering a consistently kind and professional engagement with each interaction. NearGPT's versatility is unmatched and deployable on multiple platforms like Telegram, Discord, Twitter, WhatsApp, and websites. While we currently showcase its prowess on Discord, we stand ready to offer dynamic demos across different platforms on request. Beyond simply answering questions, NearGPT is committed to maintaining a healthy community atmosphere. It can auto-moderate your platform, expunging hate speech and issuing appropriate warnings for certain behaviors. For instance, NearGPT can gently remind users of the financial realities by auto-replying, "This is not a security; do not expect financial gain" if discussions about becoming wealthy off Near arise. But that's not all! NearGPT can take the initiative to create engaging community activities such as launching the poll of the week, acknowledging the power user of the week, or organizing games and prize giveaways. This future-facing functionality adds an extra layer of interactive vibrancy to your community management. NearGPT isn't just a solution; it’s a game-changer, redefining how we perceive and manage community interactions in the blockchain space. Embrace NearGPT, and step into the future of AI-driven community management. --- ##### Our Team: We are backed by a robust team, including a Wharton MBA alum/ Y-Combinator startup founder, a Stanford professor, a Johns Hopkins Master of Data Science/ $500 million blockchain infrastructure architect, and a 2x MIT Covid-19 Challenge Winner. --- ##### Implementation: At the core of our innovation is an extraordinary automation platform, leveraging the transformative power of Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs). Uniquely, it builds custom GPTs with no human input, cutting out time-consuming manual coding, and ensuring cost-efficiency by pricing GPTs to cover only server and licensing costs. The user-friendly platform empowers even those without technical knowledge to create a custom GPT community manager. Simply upload your files in various formats to an auto-generated OneDrive folder, and our system creates a bespoke GPT model tailored to your needs. Our platform enables any Near project to create a custom AI agent for roles like community manager, customer support rep, or research analyst. We aim to integrate this tool into Near's onboarding process, offering new projects an immediate means to augment their community interaction, support, and research capabilities. In essence, our automation platform revolutionizes GPT creation and usage. With its mix of automation, cost-effectiveness, simplicity, and adaptability, it's a game-changing tool for organizations building on the Near blockchain, setting a new benchmark for community management and customer interaction in the blockchain arena. --- ##### Challenges and Our Approach: In our journey, we've met challenges head-on, particularly the well-known reliability conundrums associated with AI agents, which often stumble when faced with intricate queries. This multifaceted problem inspired us to devise an equally multi-pronged, robust solution that attacks the issue from several angles: - **The GPT-Powered Unifier**: We leverage the power of GPT-based bots to bring coherence to the chaos of unstructured data. These bots diligently reformat this raw data into blockchain-specific categories, building a structured comprehension framework and optimizing data management. This ground-breaking approach is akin to mastering a new language that lets us converse fluently with the diverse data forms in the blockchain universe. - **The Data Integrity Guardian (currently in the development and iteration stage)**: To ensure a pristine and untainted data pool for our AI training, we've isolated the data sources. This method acts as a sentinel, guaranteeing the integrity of our data and assuring that our AI agents are trained only on high-quality, reliable information. - **The Information Navigator**: Instead of attempting to decode and relay all information, we've equipped our AI agents with the capability to provide users with pertinent links. This feature turns our AI agents into knowledgeable guides, pointing users to the trove of information where they can delve deeper into their queries. - **The Art of Conciseness**: To avoid information overload, our AI agents have mastered the art of brevity. They focus on delivering concise yet comprehensive responses, ensuring that only the most relevant and closely correlated information reaches the user. - **The User Empowerment Tool**: A pioneering feature we've implemented is a feedback mechanism that lets users score responses for accuracy. This feature empowers users to have a question re-answered if the initial response doesn't meet their expectations, encouraging a dynamic, two-way interaction with our AI agents. At every stage of our journey, we remain committed to refining our processes and technologies, striving for greater accuracy and reliability. We stand tall and proud, confident in the knowledge that what we've created stands head and shoulders above current solutions in the marketplace. Our commitment to continuous innovation ensures we'll keep pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI community management. --- ##### Future Roadmap: Our devoted team is constantly striving to perfect precision and streamline cost-efficiency. We are in the process of architecting a dynamic system, a revolutionary model that offers seamless transitions between various Large Language Models (LLM). This agile design ensures we're never tethered to a single ecosystem, providing us the flexibility to maintain our competitive edge and deliver top-tier services at an unbeatable price point. In the spirit of innovation, we are enthusiastic about designing unique identities for each Visca agent, integrating distinctive faces and voices, and enabling highly engaging, webcam-based interactions. This ground-breaking initiative, while resource-intensive, has made promising strides with a working prototype that showcases this avant-garde functionality. We are currently collaborating with a distinguished Stanford professor specializing in clinical psychology, underlining our dedication to crafting a genuine, human-like conversational experience. Pushing the boundaries further, we are architecting executable actions within NearGPT, such as enabling users to view their account balances or purchase Near tokens directly (In fact, we already have such a transaction on testnet). However, executable actions present a significant amount of cybersecurity risk, so we would need significant grant funding to pay for auditing and development work to secure those capabilities. This bold leap towards a transformative AI experience necessitates significant grant funding, an investment we see as fundamental to shaping the future of secure, efficient, AI-powered blockchain community management. Join us on this exhilarating journey as we chart a future-forward course for AI in the blockchain space, developing a roadmap that is as ambitious as it is pragmatic. --- ##### The Request: We seek your collaboration for a one-year pilot program, billed at just $100/month in stablecoins. This pilot will empower you to experience the magic of NearGPT first-hand, allowing a generous volume of 1000 messages per month on a platform of the Near team’s selection, be it Discord, Telegram, or your website. The term "message" is broad, incorporating questions, answers, and subsequent clarifications. This modest investment paves the way for a significant leap in efficiency, ushering in a revolution in the way you manage community interactions. Despite the apparent simplicity, the considerable bulk of this contribution will be directed towards server hosting and token licensing costs, ensuring a smooth, uninterrupted operation of NearGPT. We believe this opportunity presents a momentous step towards embracing the future of customer interaction and support. With NearGPT, you’re not just funding a service; you're investing in an AI-driven vision that has the potential to redefine how blockchain projects communicate with their communities. Let's embark on this innovative journey together, shaping the future of blockchain engagement.