Igniting the future…

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen is now hosting weekly calls to further the development of the Governance AI Tools (GAIT).

Recently all delegates and facilitators have been tasked to prepare material for the AI system to digest.

https://forum.makerdao.com/t/atlas-and-gait-call-tasks-for-next-week/22458

But first, we want to ask our readers to apologise the missing edition of this newsletter. Last week saw us confronted with an endless stream of obligations both private and work related, and finally ended in a weekend recovering from a short, but unpleasant illness that made writing coherent text seem undoable.

We did use the occasion to come back to publishing on Monday, which had been the original plan, and, in our mind, is the best day for this publication.

The task set out by Rune to ADs and facilitators is in-line with one of the major challenges we saw arise out of the field of AI technology: Training data.

LLMs such as ChatGPT4 are incredible at processing vast troves of data and then becoming something like jack of all trades, but masters of none.

With governance, especially MakerDAO governance, we need GAIT to be a master of this very specialised matter. While it may appear that Maker Forums and Discord chat provide seemingly massive training data, the reality is that LLMs are trained with multiple powers of ten times that.

So the training has to become more specific and more effective. Rune and his team have devised a clever, JSON like way, to make the ATLAS and derivative training data more readable for the LLM and are asking the community to help train it.

If you have some time, please head over to the forum post linked above and submit an example. We will do so too.

A lesson in resiliency

On last Thursday the KISS AVC call was scheduled to take place in the Element room we usually use. Due to downtime of the hackliberty.org server, some members, who’s home domain this is, were not able to communicate via Element.

Many switched to Discord for the discussion, and the Discord to Element bridge made sure that users on matrix.org, another Element server, were getting the messages relayed, mostly…

We first started to notice some delays, and finally the Discord bridge stopped working, and pulled the KISS_AVC meeting channel on Discord with it into the digital abyss.

Two ADs reported that it was still visible on Linux, but most others had no way to communicate anymore, except the public channel.

Thankfully this happened two minutes before the end of the meeting, and we adjourned earlier.

While it is always unpleasant when things break, we learned a lot:

• Two tightly coupled system can be less resilient than a single one

• Employing two systems can still be useful if they are independent

• Establishing a protocol for switching channels is key

• The communication about switching can not take place in either of the channels

We’re looking forward to furthering our resiliency in communication and are happy for suggestions and best practices.

DAI supply update

The supply gained another ~100m since our last newsletter. At the same time stablecoin collateral is at a new low, with only slightly more than an 8th of DAI being backed by stables.

DAI is uniquely positioned to profit from the current high interest environment, and it shows.

Voting update

There are no open polls as of this Monday.

Igniting the future…

MakerDAO co-founder Rune Christensen is now hosting weekly calls to further the development of the Governance AI Tools (GAIT).

Recently all delegates and facilitators have been tasked to prepare material for the AI system to digest.

https://forum.makerdao.com/t/atlas-and-gait-call-tasks-for-next-week/22458

But first, we want to ask our readers to apologise the missing edition of this newsletter. Last week saw us confronted with an endless stream of obligations both private and work related, and finally ended in a weekend recovering from a short, but unpleasant illness that made writing coherent text seem undoable.

We did use the occasion to come back to publishing on Monday, which had been the original plan, and, in our mind, is the best day for this publication.

The task set out by Rune to ADs and facilitators is in-line with one of the major challenges we saw arise out of the field of AI technology: Training data.

LLMs such as ChatGPT4 are incredible at processing vast troves of data and then becoming something like jack of all trades, but masters of none.

With governance, especially MakerDAO governance, we need GAIT to be a master of this very specialised matter. While it may appear that Maker Forums and Discord chat provide seemingly massive training data, the reality is that LLMs are trained with multiple powers of ten times that.

So the training has to become more specific and more effective. Rune and his team have devised a clever, JSON like way, to make the ATLAS and derivative training data more readable for the LLM and are asking the community to help train it.

If you have some time, please head over to the forum post linked above and submit an example. We will do so too.

A lesson in resiliency

On last Thursday the KISS AVC call was scheduled to take place in the Element room we usually use. Due to downtime of the hackliberty.org server, some members, who’s home domain this is, were not able to communicate via Element.

Many switched to Discord for the discussion, and the Discord to Element bridge made sure that users on matrix.org, another Element server, were getting the messages relayed, mostly…

We first started to notice some delays, and finally the Discord bridge stopped working, and pulled the KISS_AVC meeting channel on Discord with it into the digital abyss.

Two ADs reported that it was still visible on Linux, but most others had no way to communicate anymore, except the public channel.

Thankfully this happened two minutes before the end of the meeting, and we adjourned earlier.

While it is always unpleasant when things break, we learned a lot:

• Two tightly coupled system can be less resilient than a single one

• Employing two systems can still be useful if they are independent

• Establishing a protocol for switching channels is key

• The communication about switching can not take place in either of the channels

We’re looking forward to furthering our resiliency in communication and are happy for suggestions and best practices.

DAI supply update

The supply gained another ~100m since our last newsletter. At the same time stablecoin collateral is at a new low, with only slightly more than an 8th of DAI being backed by stables.

DAI is uniquely positioned to profit from the current high interest environment, and it shows.

Voting update

There are no open polls as of this Monday.