sapient
Imbued with wisdom. Derived from the Latin sapor, meaning flavour / taste / discernment.artificial
Made through skill and art. Derived from the Latin word artificialis (ars meaning "art, skill," -ficialis implying "making" or "doing.".intelligence
Derived rom the Latin "intelligere.", meaning to comprehend or perceive.
An open collective of curious creative engineering minds dedicated to exploring and advancing the frontier of AI.
Created on 24 November 2023 (pi, Bojan)
We spend our time (mostly on Discord) collectively figuring out the best thing we could be building, and building it.
We welcome careful drivers.
Humans are at a critical evolutionary point. Now is a good time to align, focus, grind, know thyself. We need to get this right.
We are a hub for freestyle exploration (theory) / engineering (code) of intelligent systems.
We seek to build intuition and clear understanding, designing solutions that are elegant, simple and effective.
Cross-Domain wins: Physics / NeuroBioChem / Algebra+Geometry / DynamicalSystems / InformationTheory / Prob/Stats...
OutOfTheBox: Intuition leads, theory sometimes follows.
Random keywords: Bio-inspired, Neuromorphic, Sparsity, Attention, Gating, Recurrence, Diffusion, Reinforcement, Agency, Saccades, BackPropagation, ForwardForward. All good ingredients for the Quantum Soup.
Hands-on. Can you code it?
Most of us are listed on the Discord in the /intros channel.
Here are some of the things we are working on:
- (pi)* An agentic system that self-evolves under human guidance
- (Bojan) Full Spectrum research, Alignment, Recursive Self Improvement
- (CatId) LLM architecture, local deployment, fine-tuning
- (BeeGass) SSM innovations
- (GreyGoo) CUDA kernels, physics, philosophy
- (Hong) Research / mathy things
- (Buttercutter) Neuromorphic / Quantum
- (Alexey) General smarts and sanity
(* pi led AutoGPT in Spring 2023)
We have some compute available for club use, we also rent more compute from the cloud as needed. Ask us for details.
We spend our time:
- figuring out the GOAL (eternal WiP) -- yes money is nice, but what is our desired outcome as humans building AI?
- figuring out how to get there:
- honing awareness of the OBSTACLES taking inspiration from biology
- monitoring SotA AI (lots of reading arXiv (etc.) papers)
- improving our understanding
- building/creating stuff (active exploration, tinkering)
Last updated by grey on 20 September 2026