Tau: The Blockchain Network Tackling the Limitations of Human Bandwidth

Discussions are at the heart of exchanging thoughts, sharing knowledge and discovering new inventions. Unfortunately adding more participants to a discussion doesn’t mean more utility. The quality of a discussion, online or in person, drops as more people are added because of the limits of human bandwidth.

What is human bandwidth? Human bandwidth is the capacity to input, understand and retain information, as well as the capacity to output useful information, innovation and productivity from the information that was consumed. Without external help, even the most hardworking learner can only understand and retain a limited amount of books and online discussions in a lifetime. Limits in human bandwidth also impact software development. Since currently the only way to create software that reflects your needs is to learn how to code it yourself, which is time-consuming,  few end users have a direct say in how the software they’re using should be updated.

The limitation of human bandwidth is a global problem that is being solved by Tau, the first-ever decentralized blockchain social network that is capable of taking its users’ thoughts and needs into account.

The team at Tau believes that in a world where discussions with billions of people are efficient and the human bandwidth is liberated, the advancement of humanity would accelerate to a huge degree. Given the right tools, thousands of scientists could, for example, efficiently discuss a potential cure for cancer and discover the best possible solution at record speed.

Digitizing your mind

In a more effective software development model, end-users could determine what a network would look like by simply discussing how they want it to be. The development could be automatically updated based on the user’s direct inputs.

On Tau, the opinions, thoughts and knowledge you share in a discussion will automatically be registered in your profile called the Worldview. It will be at the center of Tau and it will represent everything you know, believe in, think and are curious about. The consensus of everyone’s Worldviews will define the next version of Tau, bringing you the ability to create a new digital universe that you all control.

Your Worldview will be entirely yours to own. You will be able to choose to share aspects of it with other people, publicly or privately, and connect it with apps, services and businesses.

Powered by a new wave of AI

Tau’s solution is powered by logical artificial intelligence (AI). Unlike machine learning, logical AI provides provably correct results and allows people to specify the intended meaning of discussions and real-world knowledge. This is achieved by using a controlled natural language, which is a  language both people and machines can understand.

By bridging the gap between humans and machines, Tau’s logic-based engine becomes able to accurately self-build complex software by understanding the intended meaning of the opinions users share over the network.

On Tau, users will govern the development of the system through their Worldview. The Worldview will serve as a user’s digital twin and will also include your thoughts on how you want Tau itself to function. You will never have to explicitly or repeatedly vote on how you want Tau to evolve; your Worldview will act as your vote. Tau will understand and take into account all ever-changing Worldviews in the network, calculate the consensus of what the users want Tau to be and implement the next version of Tau into the next block in the blockchain.

With logical AI, Tau has pioneered an original concept of human-human communication, with a machine in the middle. The core to this principle is humans engaging with each other and with Tau through a language machines can understand, known as a controlled natural language (CNL).

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Writing in languages that both people and machines can understand will enable you to instantly realize the relative meaning of what people say in billion-people-sized discussions.

With knowledge organized in a manner that makes it understandable both to people and to machines, a clear advantage will be presented over books and search engines. Data that was once broken out into bits and scattered through different formats will be organized, distilled and made ready for consumption.

Scaling discussions to unprecedented levels

The scientist and expert team at Tau is currently working on the creation of a social platform that will allow users to engage in efficient discussions regardless of how many participants exist. The release of this platform will enable discussions to become scalable and consensus points to be detected, improving the knowledge exchange process in its entirety.

These efforts are being developed in conjunction with a demo release and minimum valuable product (MVP) launch of the Tau Meta Language (TML). TML will allow seamless communication and semantic translation between programming and knowledge representation languages, visualization and organization formats, domain-specific languages and more.

Future developments will incorporate a knowledge economy, in which users will be able to trade knowledge and other resources for cash directly, giving Tau’s capabilities a monetary incentive. On Tau, you will be able to get your desired deal without figuring out how to get it. All you will have to do is tell Tau your desired outcome and it will instantly create a deal-to-deal pathway that will ultimately exchange the goods you have for the goods you want. The platform’s revolutionary Logic AI engine will also automatically and autonomously handle every transaction involved.

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