Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, jointly released the latest blog article "The promise and challenges of crypto + AI applications" with the Worldcoin and Modulus Labs teams. The article pointed out that cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence are Two of the major deep (software) technology trends of the past decade, it feels like there must be some connection between the two. On the surface, it’s easy to create synergies: Cryptocurrency decentralization can balance AI centralization, AI is opaque, cryptocurrencies bring transparency, AI requires data, and blockchain is good for storing and tracking data . Vitalik Buterin divides artificial intelligence into four categories:
1. Artificial intelligence as a player in the game [highest survivability]: In the mechanism in which artificial intelligence participates, the ultimate source of incentives comes from the agreement entered by humans.
2. AI as a gaming interface [huge potential, but also risks]: AI helps users understand the crypto world around them and ensure that their actions (i.e. signing messages and transactions) are consistent with their intentions and cannot be deceived or cheated.
3. Artificial intelligence as the rules of the game [very careful]: blockchain, DAO and similar mechanisms that directly call artificial intelligence.
4. Goals of AI as a game [long-term but interesting]: Design blockchains, DAOs, and similar mechanisms with the goal of building and maintaining AI that can be used for other purposes, using cryptocurrencies to better incentivize training or prevent AI Private data is leaked or misused.
The most challenging is trying to use blockchain and cryptography to create “singletons” of applications: single decentralized trusted artificial intelligence that some applications rely on for some purpose, and that function in and improving AI security, avoiding the centralization risks associated with more mainstream approaches to the problem.