Emerging from the bean bags and low-level lights, a young man rose to introduce his new coding project: A Google Chrome extension capable of sorting through AI-related event pages to pick out the most relevant event to each user.
As it turns out, it’s a project that could be useful: In September, dozens of different groups hosted some 75 artificial intelligence events across San Francisco, including this event at The Commons, a “college common room” a stone’s throw from the Hayes Valley Playground. The surge of peer-to-peer house parties plus Moscone mega-events needs sorting: Join us on a tour.
The venues hosting these events have unilaterally renamed sizable swaths of the city: There’s “the Arena,” AI enthusiasts’ shorthand for several central neighborhoods (the Mission, Potrero Hill, and parts of SoMa) where startups, social clubs and various hangouts…
