Shobhit Srivastava
Hi, I’m Shobhit, an engineer at heart, living in Bangalore. I’ve spent more than a decade in technology, and what I love most is building - products, teams, and businesses.
What I’m building
In the next decade, new ways of computing will become part of everyday life, with computers that understand us through conversation and respond naturally. The interfaces and personal computers we know are already being challenged, opening a window for something new. I believe the new personal computer will live like humans around us, with superintelligent capabilities of comprehension, counsel and personalisation. There will be two categories of agents: personal agents, and expert agents, like a wealth manager, a nutritionist or a bank agent. Personal agents will become the primary interface through which we navigate and make use of the digital world.
Stevens
We’re developing a full-duplex, speech-to-speech model, customised to run locally on household hardware, able to listen while it speaks, respond naturally and adapt. As this intelligence becomes part of our most sensitive lives, our families, health, wealth, children and elders, personal identity and privacy will be of utmost importance. Casual promises of privacy will have to give way to structural guarantees that protect people’s data and keep them in control of how it is used.
Meet Stevens →The Creole Network
The substrate Stevens runs on — a user-controlled, local-first network that keeps a person’s data in their own hands. Everything else we’re building sits on top of it.
More at shovel.company →Writing
Talks
All talks →A little background
Before Shovel, I started a video startup that didn’t make it, built a DevOps company a few of us took into Gojek, and spent five years there helping the engineering grow as the company did. The longer story is on the about page.
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