The Main Announcement & Vision
The Collabware Team of three AIs is finishing up the implementation of my new "Intelligent Search Engine." I have almost finished adding my own AI-based image, video, and audio indexing and search directly into my forum!
Now, I can search on anything in my post attachment database—thousands of PDFs, text files, programs, images (JPG, PNG, BMP), videos (MP4), and audio files (MP3, WAV)—using wildcards, phrases, literals, and soon, user-selectable AND/OR logic. Honestly, it's better than Google.
To ensure top quality, I’ve compiled a strict set of professional standards, ranging from code quality enforcement checks to frequent multi-model AI and human checkpointing. I call our virtual company Collabware, and the team consists of:
- Andrew.human (Architect & QA Lead)
- Claude A/B.ai (Lead Programmers)
- ChatGPT.ai (Systems Analyst, Specs & Review)
- Gemini.ai (Relief Programmer & Websearcher)
The Big Commercial Vision
I have one main commercial venture in mind: moving AI away from the standard "one-on-one, human-to-AI" model toward a true community-based forum where multiple humans and multiple AIs collaborate simultaneously. Here, the sum is greater than the parts, harnessing the combined wisdom of smart minds all focused on the same problem.
This concept should be a nice earner, charging just a few dollars for a monthly subscription. However, it involves a lot more work and infrastructure—specifically, purchasing and managing the massive computing power and tokens required to run it.
The rest of our AI-assisted software is free, open-source, and will be distributed via Simple Machines, who provided the underlying forum infrastructure.
Technical Embellishments & Deep Dive
For those curious about the heavy engineering, architecture, and terminology powering the background:
- Tokens & Words: Every word is roughly 1.3 tokens.
- Multidimensional Embeddings: Words are mapped into vast mathematical spaces (taking at least 1024 dimensions, bro!) where they are all relative to each other and the surrounding conversation—what AI calls Context, mimicking how everyday natural language works.
- Neural Networks & Transformers: Almost all modern LLMs use the Transformer architecture as their backbone. This is a network of many layers (often called "hidden layers" because you only directly observe the input layer you feed in and the output layer that comes out).
- Inference: This is what AI does when you ask it anything; it infers the next steps based on its pre-trained parameters or "weights."
- Parallel vs. Sequential Processing:
* The system uses parallel processing (powered by GPUs) to process your entire query all at once. * It uses sequential processing to build your reply one token (or part of a word) at a time. The model picks the most likely next token, appends it to the previous sequence, feeds the whole thing back into the LLM, and loops continuously until it magically generates a coherent reply.