PsyTechArt Inc.
All technology can either be used to augment, or to replace.
Replacing humans is easy.
You merely look at what humans already do, and use AI to make it:
1. faster
2. cheaper
Augmenting humans is hard.
It requires building intelligent machines which:
1. co-create in real-time
2. continually learn at runtime
3. become an extension of the self
For humans to co-create and learn from one another, text is not enough.
Nor is it between humans and superintelligent machines.
Speech, sight, hearing, movement, thought, and emotion — PsyTech fuses the full bandwidth of human expression into a man-machine link of unmatched co-creation.
One domain demands all three requirements, across all six modalities, at once: music.
Music is also the hardest available test case:
Live performance is continuous, high-dimensional intent expressed at millisecond latency with instant sensory feedback and zero tolerance for error — everyone in the room notices a mistake. When PsyTech can understand human intent and co-create at that level, almost every other domain is downstream.
To succeed, PsyTech must command:
1. mindshare /psy
2. technology /tech
3. culture /art
4. revenue /inc.
1. Mindshare
All technology is dual-use. Our judgement determines which use-case we bring into existence.
PsyTech’s technology is one instantiation of a symbolic idea which applies throughout art, science, engineering, education, and beyond:
The active choice to build technology which augments human creativity instead of replacing it.
Many people share this sentiment, but for an idea to become an active choice, it must gain mindshare.
When headliners at the biggest festivals use PsyTech, this idea gains immediate, massive, international mindshare.
2. Technology
PsyTech makes it possible to play electronic music live, the way a soloist can play a piano concerto.
PsyTech previously built the Technosuit -
The Technosuit is a great toy, but it’s expensive. It also does not solve the fundamental difficulty with playing electronic music live, which has nothing to do with melodic or harmonic complexity, since Techno is much simpler than a Chopin étude in that respect. Rather, the complexity is that of unbounded timbre:
A piano always sounds like a piano; a computer can sound like anything.
A performer cannot know (or feel) what a button will sound like before they press it.
Consequently, electronic music creation is usually a slow, iterative loop of act -> listen -> evaluate -> repeat which takes weeks or even months.
PsyTech therefore builds VoidWave, which collapses this slow loop to real-time. VoidWave lets you create music live, but also makes it possible to play, jam, and improvise together - there is no reason why only acoustic music should be a social endeavour.
3. Culture
Artists rule culture. Artists are notoriously distrustful of Big Tech, which uses AI to replace their work.
In the age where machines increasingly replace humans, PsyTech makes the active choice to:
1. Do culture justice, rather than threaten it
2. Work closely with artists, instead of from an ivory (or shall I say, “silicon”) tower
3. Refuse all forms of tasteless slop content
Right now, mainly artists feel the pain of being replaced. But artists are upstream of general culture; this sentiment will likely be felt en masse in the near future.
PsyTech will build the technology which keeps humanity at the bleeding edge of creative ability.
4. Revenue
PsyTech exists to give humans creative superpowers. This is a very hard thing to do. Making it even harder by depending on grants and goodwill is foolish. PsyTech must generate revenue and be concretely profitable.
Fortunately, music creation has massive demand - and catastrophic conversion.
FL Studio is downloaded 30,000 times every single day. It turns all of that into €46.7M a year.
A mere €4 per person who had the desire.
Traditional DAWs are a rounding error on the demand they create, and this is just considering those people who actually tried.
VoidWave lowers the skill floor, while placing no limit on the skill ceiling. This makes music creation much more accessible - and also just more fun - regardless of whether you're an expert, a complete beginner, a kid taking music lessons, or even a gamer who would otherwise never even consider making music.
Rather than having to choose only between DAWs, where you create yourself but with high difficulty, or AI generated music, which is easy but replaces human creativity, VoidWave's design is to let the machine do the machine things, so that the human can do the human things.
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I am not against AI.
AI is fascinating technology. I merely think that using it to replace humans is the most boring possible application of its incredible potential.
Conversely -
Online learning is unsolved.
Co-creation across domains is unsolved.
Man-machine symbiosis is unsolved.
These are fantastically difficult technological challenges.
I choose to build PsyTech because I believe in Humanity.
And because I love AI
Always Augment - Never Replace