Modern Philosophers - AI Tinkerers - New York City Hackathon
AI Tinkerers - New York City
Hackathon Showcase Finalist

Modern Philosophers

Fine-tune Gemma on podcast transcripts, use A2A for debates, leverage Podskim fact-checks; seeking two ML/fine-tuning collaborators.

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Modern Philosophers

Debate with top podcasters, with support from gemma fine-tuned Joe & Lex!

  1. Hot take

We find “hot takes” from podcasters and your goal is to persuade the audience PRO or CON

  1. Research

You can check other podcasters for advice - using RAG we pull in relevant chunks as your research team

  1. Ask Lex! Ask Joe!

OR you can ask fine-tuned gemma models.
We have “Ask Lex Fridman” or “Ask Joe Rogan” two LoRA models served on GCP

  1. Rebuttal

craft your answer to be as persuasive as possible!

  1. Score

At the end we rank your ‘persuasiveness’ by sampling the audience agents and seeing how much you changed their mind
Shift Perception! Control the Overton window!

this feature is deployed live here!
https://podskim.com/debates/new/start

Podskim is a tool I built to scrape podcasts from youtube and process them, extract quotes from top podcasters
embed the text for RAG etc.
This debate feature was brainstormed and built from the ground up for this weekend inc model finetunes

AI Tinkerers Betaworks Google Cloud

work on the models, fine tuning

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training data used for fine tuning (podcast excerpts)

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client app for podskim that the 'debate' feature was added to

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