Blockchain adventures: AI is good
After a number of discussions with companies involved in blockchain, I came to this title. This is because, as in the movie "Maze Runner", an system is being looked at which serves as a safe keeper to maintain and control a society.
Disclaimer: this is only the opinion arising from the various conversations with companies and professionals involved in blockchain. To express the essence well, my own opinion has been left out here.
How it all started
As described earlier, the internet is seen as a network of information and blockchain as a network focused on value and transactions. Transactions in the form of money are what most people think of, but transactions are much broader. Any form of data and knowledge exchange can also be seen as a transaction. And that's where AI comes in the picture.
What do AI and transactions have in common?
Currently many companies are experimenting with AI robots to automate certain tasks. Processes and tasks that are routine and can be standardized are ideal to perform better, faster and more effectively in the form of AI. In the medical sector they can detect cancer better and faster, smartphones become interactive and Google can better address the wishes and needs of its target group with AI bots.
As described, these are simple tasks with "few" variables. This is clearly visible in the gaming sector; At first Deep Blue won the game chess which is quite complicated. A while after DeepMind won the game Go, which is seen as the most difficult game in the world. And recently the bot OpenAI has mastered the game DOTA2 so well that it has won from world class players. All this is possible by introducing variables and "learning" through machine learning (learning from different actions and outcomes).
Why blockchain could be the missing link
As described above, transactions are important to the success of AI. How fast an AI learns depends among other things on the number of options / variables that are possible. In a game like chess the number of variables is still manageable. But how many variables does a person have, and especially how many variables does our thinking ability have and how fast can this be "copied"? The answer to this is not even known because of the mystery called our brains. A long wait has therefore been made until the moment that neuroscientists and technicians have completely dissected the brain and understand what that 5 kilos of mass can do.
And then came blockchain ...... Blockchain is data, blockchain is all about data, it lives on data.
What is ideal about blockchain? It is so broad, accessible and smart at the same time. It can store our ideas, thoughts, opinions and all our actions to save them forever. Ideal for individuals, companies with complicated processes ... and entities that want to understand!
To make it clear, I outline the following example:
A group of people sit at a table, the chairman of this group has a secret number in his head and the number is between 1 and 1,000,000,000,000, they can call a number in turn and whoever wins deserves a great prize . You can understand that this will take infinitely long. However, the candidates may also ask questions and the chairman must answer them honestly.
Then there is asked:
- Is it an even number? Yes the chairman says, half of the options are lost
- Does the number start with an even number? Yes the chairman says, again a lot of options gone
- Is it in the lower or upper half of the numbers? The top says the chairman, and again a lot of possibilities gone.
As you can understand, simple questions cause the number of options (variables) to decrease drastically and the right "code" to be cracked earlier.
This same way blockchain can help AI with learning about our brain. Every transaction and every form of input is knowledge that an AI learns and grows from. It teaches us how we think, how we communicate and how transactions between parties take place. And then it is also very nice when "middlemen or trusted parties" disappear, because where first a transaction started online (eg payment tax), it is checked offline in the head of an inspector and then processed online. Thanks to the blockchain, everything stays online and the entire transaction and thought process is transparent.
What does it mean in the future?
In theory we learn a lot of new things through blockchain possibilities and applications. The other way around a blockchain and all "readers" of that blockchain learn from us. It is a kind of balance and can result in a win-win situation. Is that bad, I don’t know and let’s be honest.
Through social media, smart phones and smart devices we are already giving away a lot of data for free and with blockchain we can become horribly rich again as well, hello cryptos!
This is the opinion of several companies who are trying to find the solution of smart strong AI’s. What is your opinion and do you believe AI and blockchain are connected?
Some people even say AI made the blockchain happen but that’s a story for some other time;)
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