In the “AI Plugin Brainstorming” thread, SimonBiggs initiates a community discussion to gather ideas for AI-powered Discourse plugins, suggesting features like automated conversation seeding, friend matchmaking, sentiment analysis, and community promotion. HAWK notes that official AI plugins are forthcoming, advising patience. SimonBiggs follows up, inviting collaboration from the Guild of Entrepreneurs in Australia for an upcoming AI hackathon in Sydney, seeking suggestions from the Discourse team for impactful, open-source AI plugins to showcase to the startup community. HAWK directs the inquiry to Falco, Discourse’s AI lead, who recommends exploring existing AI modules in the discourse-ai repository, highlighting spam detection, AI OCR, automatic image captioning, and categorization — especially if they can leverage open-source models. Meanwhile, philip_rhoades expresses interest in attending the hackathon, though plans to observe rather than actively contribute philip_rhoades. The thread reflects collaborative enthusiasm for integrating AI into Discourse, with a focus on open-source, community-driven innovation.
We were hoping to collect some ideas for a range of AI plugins. I imagine there are some people who would be keen jump into the AI space and making an AI Discourse plugin would be perfect way to dip in one’s toes.
So… this is a topic for sharing ideas around possible AI plugins that we as the community might be able to implement together. I’ll get the ball rolling:
Automated conversation seeds - relevant news/discussion-worthy feed into relevant spaces. Pulling from news and social media AI would automatically seed conversations within the niche spaces. Possibly even fun facts framed in a way to prompt discussion
AI could do friend matchmaking across the whole community
Sentiment analysis: Monitor and analyse the sentiment of community discussions using AI, providing insights to moderators for improving the community and member satisfaction.
Automated community promotion - Creating social media and email promotions each week highlighting the best of the community without sharing anything identifiable from the community. Perhaps something like podsqueeze with repurpose
A group of us from the Guild of Entrepreneurs in Australia are getting together in Sydney in a couple of weeks at an AI hackathon:
We were hoping to build an open source AI plugin for Discourse that will help our community (and any other Discourse community that wants to use it).
Do you have any suggestions for something that your team might be keen for us to work on to demonstrate the power of Discourse combined with AI to the Australian startup community?
Also, if there’s anyone on this forum in the vicinity, we’d love to have you along! (eg @philip_rhoades)
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