1-2-3: Proof of Personhood

1 idea, 2 resources, and 3 tools for this week.

Happy Sunday!

Welcome to Ponderer's 9th edition.

Here are 1 idea to ponder, 2 resources to skill up, and 3 tools to try out.

Let’s do it.

PONDER THIS

World ID - Proof of Personhood

World ID - Proof of Personhood

. The Big Idea .

The need for proof of personhood in the age of AI.

Here is a path to an open and permissionless identity protocol called World ID.

Worldcoin's World ID swaggers in, brandishing proof of our humanity ever so stylishly.

Thanks to Tools for Humanity's nifty gizmo, we grace the digital stage with privacy, inclusivity, and over 1.4 million fine fellows twirling merrily in this online tango.

The craving for human proof is in full swing.

LEARN

Learn Section: Skill up through Experience

We learn via iteration and putting our skin in the game.

. 2 Resources .

Skill up with our top picks of the week:

I. Free Guide:

[Read it] The complete beginner's Guide to Autonomous Agents by Matt Schlicht. This well-done guide takes you from A to Z, along with examples.

II. Free Video Course:

[Watch it] Learn to code with ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. This is a 5-hour video course by Ania Kubów from FreeCodeCamp.org.

TRY IT

Infinite Leverage - Human input, AI output until AI provides input + output.

Human input, AI output. We leverage AI, and AI leverages us.

. 3 Tools .

Leverage our top picks of the week:

I. Chatbase

Chatbase is like ChatGPT but for any website or document. Turn any website or PDF in an AI chatbot in seconds and add it to your own website. [Try it]

II. NexusGPT

NexusGPT is a mind-blowing marketplace of 800+ autonomous AI-agents with each specific skillset. Demo is free. [Try it]

III. Godmode

Godmode will perform market analysis and summarize web pages. Give it a task, and it will do it from A to Z for you. This is an impressive autonomous agent. [Try it]

. CREW PONDERINGS .

🤔 Hmm: He brought ChatGPT on board as his CTO to craft a Chrome extension from scratch and got acquired faster than a quickie. Fastest launch to exit ever?

🤯 50/49/1: If 50% live in the past, 49% in the future, and 1% in the now, it can only mean one thing: the 1% spend way too long in the bathroom. 🚽 

 🥵 AI Ban: Mr. PG with a question worth pondering. We've got some "tobasco scorpion hot sauce" ideas 🌶️ but the world isn't ready for our alter-ego yet.

😢 Hug: With 7.7+ million views, this thread by Greg was bound to get some hate as Twitter is full of people needing a gentle bear hug, but we loved the lesson.

. TWEET TO PONDER .

We can't believe we got his book last year, but we haven't read it yet. 😏

. TOGETHER > SOLO .

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