I always feel like people are trying to launder blockchain, which appears to me to be mostly useless, with AI, which is highly useful. I fail to see how the two technologies are related in any way.
Its about who applies AI and for what purpose. Currently, FANG controls all the data and applies AI to maximize ad clicks (the evil paperclip maximizer). "blockchain" is a movement for people who want "take back" their data (re-decentralize the web). They still want the benefits of machine learning on big personalized data sets (but without the annoying intrusions of profit-maximizing EvilCorp).
Not to disagree with you, but in this specific case, might there be a use for blockchain to support AI, as its reliable "memory"?
AI systems process data streams that by definition change as time passes, and previously-streamed data becomes the AI's memory, so to speak. If so, then using databases that allow for data to be manipulated post facto makes the AI's memory unreliable.
In providing verifiably accurate and permanent memories to AI systems, could blockchain be advantageous in certain cases to the development of AI?
The most buzzwordy thing I heard from a blockchain guy was from Vinay Gupta, of Ethereum fame. He said quantum computers can solve the economic calculation problem, so we can get Quantum/Blockchain/AI socialist central planning.
To match the performance of a market economy, wouldn't that require modelling agents that themselves have access to the same computing techniques you have?
Ironically, quantum computers could break the underlying premises of the elliptic curve cryptography [1] that is used in Ethereum, thereby breaking Ethereum.
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AI systems process data streams that by definition change as time passes, and previously-streamed data becomes the AI's memory, so to speak. If so, then using databases that allow for data to be manipulated post facto makes the AI's memory unreliable.
In providing verifiably accurate and permanent memories to AI systems, could blockchain be advantageous in certain cases to the development of AI?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Qu...
> The MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium will conduct anti-disciplinary research
> What are the next things that were always impossible, until suddenly, they not longer are?
At the risk of sounding facetious, have you considered an automated proof reader?