Matt Turck produced this post about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain. His goal was to provide a broad introduction to the topic and feed the discussion why the topic matters in the first place, and highlight the work of some interesting companies in the space.
Blockchain emerged as a powerful response to political and organizational problems, rather than purely technical ones.
In the post he is coming at this topic from the perspective of a VC investor. He notes that each trend (AI and blockchain) individually could very well end up disappointing, and explorations at the intersection of both could prove fruitless.
He points out that AI and blockchain are philosophically opposed in many ways:
| Crypto | AI |
|---|---|
| Decentralized | Centralized |
| Open | Closed (mostly) |
| Transparent | Black Box |
| Deterministic | Probabilistic |
For example, AI is very much centralized - within a handful of companies, primarily Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (“GAFA”) and the large Chinese Internet companies, Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu. These companies have been able to attract top AI talent around the world.
He then explains many aspects related to these topics, including: data, models and computing power.
You will find much more in this interesting article with links to further resources and reading. Well done!
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