What is a data vending machine?
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I know I could have searched it. Asking nostr is way more fun.
i have seen mentioned by pablo and dont believe the hype but tbh not exactly sure 😂 something like AI integrated with nostr?
free market of compute integrated via nostr
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/vending-machine/vending-machine.md#job-request
nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft can probably explain it better than I can, but as I understand it, it’s a way to submit a request via nostr, and AI providers can compete on price or quality results to meet that request.
The example I remember was asking, “generate a transcript from this podcast clip”, and the “sellers” will return the cost, time to produce, show a preview, etc.
Oh, that’s pretty freaking cool/awesome.
I saw someone posted that they had generated some AI art from one earlier, in fact
Yeah there was a post a little while ago. Very cool! Thanks for the explanation Boston.
My pleasure 🫂🤙🫡
yup
and they are composable
so the output of one AI can be the input of another AI
as in:
job 1: transcribe podcast A
job 2: transcribe podcast B
job 3: transcribe podcast C
job 4: grab the outputs of job1, 2 and 3 and grab the most interesting points, condense them to 10 paragraphs
job 5: grab the output of job 4 and create a podcast that explains the summarization
job 6: grab the output of jbo 4 and create an image
etc etc etc
Would the requester (customer?) be presented with one ⚡️ invoice that gets divvied up between the multiple services used?
vending machines can collaborate but behind the scenes, the customer only sees either a result or a LN invoice from each service provider that chooses to apply
each service provider might gather reputation or implicit recommendations from your social graph (via NIP-89) for specific jobs
so you might see 5 service providers when requesting a job for #bitcoin podcast transcription, but a bunch of the people you follow say (implicitly, via NIP-89, not that you're asking them) they use provider 4
Thus, your client might opt to move provider 4 at the top of the list.
Or even just go with provider 4 and never ask you which provider you want.
The idea is that the flow is so flexible that clients can create the best UX possible.
this is an old video, it's much cooler now, but it should give you an idea
Still have no clue 😂
nostr is the coke machine, lightning is the quarters, AI understands which button you select and gives you exactly the product you want? but there are infinite buttons so to speak? idk my best guess rn
I see!
It’s you, you’re dispensing data. How valuable is your data? Give it away for free or charge a premium? Maybe it’s not for sale or available 🤷🏻
Zucker Meta 🤪