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The Problem

It's incredibly difficult to keep track of modern media releases. The latest book in a series, the new season of a tv show, or a new movie from a favorite director. Tracking all of these and distilling them down to dates isn't necessarily difficult, it's just time consuming.

The Inciting Incident

I used to keep a TXT file of upcoming books and games along with their projected release dates. This put the onus on me to open the file, search, and update things.

The Problem Statement

How might we delegate the tracking of media property statuses (books, movies, music, shows, video games) to an AI that can: discover sources, discern the veracity of those sources, and proactively inform the user when there is a high confidence, vetted change of a properties source?

How might we track the status of GTA 6 or the final book in the Jackpot trilogy without using social media? How might we know when a TV is skipping a week due to a holiday or sporting event, again, without relying on social media?

AND, how might we build an AI that works for the benefit of the user and not to sell you stuff you don't need?

The Solution

Timothy is, at it's core, three things:

1. A Web Crawler - Timothy searches the web and assembles sources. It judges those sources and extracts signal where it finds it.
2. A Media Graph - Timothy builds a context graph of media to serve as its world state. This helps parse data during the initial crawl (so that two things with the same name can be discerned) and for assigning trustworthiness to sources.
3. A Notification system - Timothy is designed to alert users when something happens. It's a push system - alerting the user when there's something new, rather than asking the user to do work.

Wait a minute...

Yes, the original Timothy.AI was my first personal AI product launched way back in 2016. I've held onto the domain since then.

This is an extension of that original premise - a bot that reminds you of stuff - but expanded to find stuff for you, rather than just echoing back what you said.

Use Timothy

Timothy is not yet available for public use, but stay tuned for updates as development progresses.