AI Hack - with Manolis Kellis from MIT and Sundai Club from Harvard
Theme: Mantis - Visual AI and Cognitive Cartography.
Mantis is the AI-Powered Visual Data Science platform developed by Manolis Kellis and his team at MIT.
https://home.withmantis.com/
Organized by: Sundai Club - the largest AI 'Hacker' Club in Harvard and MIT - we helps organizations to solve problems via Rapid Prototyping with AI Tools.
https://sundai.foundation
Support from: MIT Universal AI Summit - MIT Open Learning's new online learning initiative aims to provide AI education to 1 Billion people worldwide. Join us for full day summit two days later here -
https://www.eventora.com/en/Events/mituniversalaisummit25
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Why Mantis?
As AI is reshaping how we work, and learn, current chatbot frameworks are unfortunately excluding humans from the creative process, underutilizing the extraordinary acuity of human visual cognition, hiding away necessary complexity, and providing over-confident and over-simplified answers to complex questions, resulting in reduced human creativity and ingenuity.
Mantis provides a new paradigm for human-AI collaboration that extends human conceptual reach, insight, and speed, by blending natural language, structured data, and visual reasoning into an interactive canvas for exploration and discovery. User interactions are enriched with a wide range of tools and capabilities, including: lasso selection, magic lasso, bags, paths, partitions, clusters, ontologies, flashcards, waypoints, vignettes, journeys, quick-sheets, keywords, plotting, coding, notebooks, collaboration, and a crew of interactive, interacting, reasoning, learning expert agents, and their coordinating orchestrator.
Mantis is based on Cognitive Cartography, Agentic Workflows, Multi-Modal Embeddings, Graphical Inferencing, Tool Integration, and Contextual Reasoning.
The Mantis platform can be applied to almost any "vertical", from knowledge management, to business analytics, investment portfolios, startups, founders, patents, publications, genes, drugs, patients, products, buyers, sellers, ideas, songs, meetings, people, financial reports, government documents, laws, regulations, code, GitHub commits, progress reports, memos, news, books, historical events, Wikipedia, social media, YouTube videos, and education.
The goal of our hack will be to build on top of the Mantis platform: (1) select a vertical; (2) gather/scrape relevant dataset; (3) decide on capabilities, questions, protocols, and agentic workflows; (4) navigate complex information space of your data to discover new insights.
Watch Mantis demos here: tinyurl.com/MantisDemos
Create a Mantis account here: https://home.withmantis.com/inquire
Use Mantis here: http://alpha.withmantis.com/
Watch Manolis on Lex Fridman and on the CSAIL podcast
Visit the Kellis Lab: https://compbio.mit.edu/
Join the Mantis team here: https://tinyurl.com/MantisOnboarding
And as always - this Sundai we will be building and shipping apps that have the potential to gain either 1000 users, 1000 github stars or 1000 euros over the course of the following week! Sundai's rapid prototyping motto is 'in the users' hands by the end of the day'.
Schedule:
9:00 Arrival and Networking
9:30 Intros and Vision
10:00 Brainstorming and Pitching
11:00 Breakout and Team Formation
12:00 Group Pitches
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Checkup #1
16:00 Checkup #2
20:30 Dinner and Presentations
22:00 Close and Sign-off
Sundai Club is a global hacker movement that meets every sunday to build a new app with AI from scratch by the end of the day.
We are always looking for the best people in building, designing or growing to join us. Our goal is to push the envelope of what is possible to build in a day with AI. We had done 70+ hackathons back-to-back in the last year - one for every sunday.
Our vision at Sundai:
"AI is the new literacy". "Hacking with AI" is a core skill of the future. It will give you superpowers to do incredible things FAST.
Our values:
Open. Balance. Shortcuts.
Open mind, open source, open to new ideas and people from all walks of life. This is how progress happens.
Balance between serving our community and making big strides for the future. Balance between hard work and frolic. Balance between spending time with your loved ones vs pushing the envelop of what's possible.
Shortcuts is an ingenious move that a hacker makes to build a system that works. In order to build fast - you always need to think in shortcuts.
Terms of Participation:
By joining this event you agree to take care & vigilance of the following:
leave the room as you found it. All whiteboards, chairs and tables must be cleaned and re-arranged as you found them. All trash must be in the bin.
do not let any strangers enter into any building behind you where sundai is taking place. if you see anyone you do not recognize who is suspicious, please let us know immediately.
use only the dedicated spaces to a sundai hack. if unsure - ask explicitly.
be respectful and considerate of others who may be in the building and are studying or working.
if unsure - always ask.
You agree to these rules by coming to the event. Please read full terms carefully here: https://tinyurl.com/sundaiterms