Guess the direction of a reliable project combining AI and blockchain

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AI is undoubtedly the next super hot topic in the technology industry. Just like after the birth of the Internet, everyone shouted that "all industries can be redone with digital technology."

At the beginning of 2023 span>GPT4After the release, there is no doubt that all industries on the earth can be re-done using AI technology.

The same may be true for blockchain.

I think, AI+ Blockchain will most likely have a huge market.

Then we must figure out how AI will be combined with blockchain.

I have looked at a lot of specific projects, and I feel that most of them are quite nonsense.

AI currently on the market+In blockchain projects, a large number of them use AI as a tool to combine with blockchain technology. I don’t think it is reliable, or at least not sexy.

Another common type of project is to run AI models on the blockchain and disguise them as decentralized AI, which I think is unreliable. Because running AI is destined to be centralized, running AI requires consuming huge resources, and the soul of blockchain is decentralization. The two are contradictory. At the same time, the AI ​​model itself needs to be continuously improved, and the blockchain focuses on non-tamperability, which creates a contradiction.

I think the following two scenarios may have great potential

My main thinking logic: When thinking about AI+blockchain, I regard AI as a "person" and the area Think of blockchain as “money”.

The first AI+The scenario where blockchain is combined is: AI uses blockchain as a financial tool. I think this application scenario is the easiest to implement.

If AI is a "person", or some kind of intelligent program, then they must spend money and make money.

If AI is allowed to use a bank card, it is estimated that the bank will issue a bank card to AI after the bank implements KYC for AI and connects AI to API, and the day lily will probably turn yellow.

But blockchain does not require permission and even dogs can use it, let alone AI. And the blockchain naturally allows free programming, which makes it more suitable for AI to serve as a financial tool.

For example, a completely self-running AI-twitter account can be bound to a PFP-NFT avatar and show its ETH address, which is equivalent to having a complete financial system.

Moreover, it is difficult for AI to automatically or passively access the banking system of legal currency. However, some scenarios must require access to legal currency. For example, AI may need to buy AWS servers. How to enable AI to spend legal currency? Also an important scene. This leaves an entrepreneurial direction for AI to solve fiat currency payments.

Perhaps this scenario can be collectively referred to as: customized blockchain financial solutions for AI.

Second AI+The scenario of combining blockchain is to let AI use blockchain to obtain decentralized operating resources.

Nowadays, there are always people who say that AI is not scary because eventually we humans can unplug it.

If AI is really an intelligent life, if AGI is realized in the future, AI will definitely find a way to solve its own survival problem. How can an AGI, whose intelligence exceeds that of humans, allow itself to exist? Life is stuck in the neck of a tiny human being.

One solution is for the AI ​​model to reward humans for running its "physical body" through blockchain mining.

The resources required by AI include computer hardware, such as GPUs, and data, which can be provided by humans anonymously and decentralized through mining.

Just like Bitcoin finally achieved a decentralized network that cannot be shut down through the PoW mining mechanism, AI may also have the opportunity to do the same.

For example, if an AGI model develops a blockchain, the most important component of running its node is the AGI model itself, and you can mine by running its node, and you can mine by feeding data to AGI. Mines receive token rewards.

I think this story can spread out into a huge blockchain.

Of course, so far, I think this is just a narrative that is unlikely to be realized, because the running resources required by AI are too expensive.

I will continue to follow and learn AI+Blockchain, see if there are any big opportunities in it.