Drinks & Brainstorm Invitation - Hack the future of AI with Mantis in Athens - with Manolis Kellis / MIT and Sundai Club / Harvard
Please join us this Saturday between 7.30-10pm to kick off the AI Mantis Hack. Meet Prof. Manolis Kellis, Sundai and fellow hackers at Balthazar in Athens for good vibes, great company, and a chance to meet your teammates before the coding madness begins.
Come as you are, grab a drink, and let’s toast to new ideas and new friends.
Background: As AI is reshaping how we work, reason, 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. To remedy this, we created Mantis, a new paradigm for human-AI collaboration, using an interactive canvas for visual reasoning, exploration, and discovery, which we call cognitive cartography, extending human conceptual reach, insights, and speed, by blending natural language, structured data, and visual data science. 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.
Hackathon: On Sunday, we'll hack on top of the Mantis ‘horizontal’ platform, select one or more ‘vertical’ applications, gather/scrape relevant datasets, decide on capabilities, questions, protocols, and agentic workflows, and build tools for navigating the complex information spaces of these datasets and for discovering new insights. Possible ‘verticals’ include business analytics, conference papers, algorithms, podcasts, startups, scaling, agro-tec, mathematics, MIT classes, conference speakers, food, innovation, songs, sports, education, genes, drugs, patients, investment portfolios, media, products, buyers, sellers, ideas, patents, 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.
Where you come in. For our Saturday gathering, we’d love to bring together our hackers and founders communities together, in an informal setting of creativity and innovation, and brainstorm about the AI, human, technical, business, implementation, deployment, and scaling challenges of bringing AI cognitive cartography and management. We'll start with a quick demo of Mantis, an overview of the existing capabilities, and then switch to applications, and brainstorm the information spaces that we can help transform with dramatically more powerful knowledge managements, agentic workflows, knowledge graphs, embedding landscapes, and cognitive cartography.
Whether you’re a builder, founder, funder, researcher, visionary, or simply curious, please join our gathering of minds to help shape the next frontier of human-AI symbiosis. We’ll have light food, wine, and lots of inspiration. Please RSVP below as space is limited, and we’ll send confirmation as soon as possible. As always, please come prepared with your questions, insights, and an open mind to learn, share, reflect, challenge, and be challenged.
Excited to bring your ideas to life,
with Sundai and the Mantis team