Blockchains for Artificial Intelligence

big data has transformed AI, to an almost unreasonable level. Blockchain technology could transform AI too... Some applications ... mundane... Some appear almost unreasonable, like AI that can own itself ... This article will explore these applications... blockchains introduced three new characteristics: decentralized / shared control, immutable / audit trails, and native assets / exchanges... characteristics are also potentially interesting for AI applications...
Decentralized / shared control encourages data sharing ...
Immutability / audit trail... provenance on training/testing data & models... Data wants reputation too....
Native assets / exchanges Leads to training/testing data & models as intellectual property (IP)... to decentralized data & model exchanges... better control for upstream usage of your data....
AI with blockchains unlock the possibility for AI DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations)... can accumulate wealth, that you can’t shut off...
In this new world, data is a moat, and AI algorithms a commodity.... blockchains encourage data sharing among traditional silos, if there is enough up-front benefit... when data from silos is merged, you don’t just get a better dataset, you get a qualitatively new dataset. Which leads to a qualitatively new model... you can do something you couldn’t do before...
data & model sharing can happen at three levels: within an enterprise (which for multinationals is harder than you might think); within an ecosystem or consortium; or within the planet (which amounts to becoming a public utility)...
a whole new scale for diversity of datasets and data feeds. Therefore, we have qualitatively new data. Planetary level structured data. From that, we can build qualitatively new models, that make relations which among inputs & outputs which weren’t connected before. With the models and from the models, we will get qualitatively new insights....
Claiming copyright of and licensing data & models was possible before ... But blockchain technology makes it better... a tamper-resistant global public registry...
An AI DAO is AI that owns itself, that you can’t turn off... An AI DAO is an AGI-style control system running on a decentralized processing & storage substrate. Its feedback loop continues on its own, taking inputs, updating its state, actuating outputs, with the resources to do so continually... AI gets its missing link: resources. DAO gets its missing link: autonomous decision-making.