My Ideal AI + Blockchain Project (Part Four)

• Bittensor: https://bittensor.org/

The introduction to this project is easy to understand.

In simple terms, it creates a mechanism for evaluating the performance of artificial intelligence. In a peer-to-peer artificial intelligence network, the performance of any AI is evaluated by its "neighbors." The evaluation method is derived from neural network training. The scores obtained by each AI after being evaluated by their "neighbors" are recorded on the blockchain. AIs with high scores receive rewards and increase their weight.

The innovations of this project are quite interesting, and the feasibility and arguments for the plan are detailed in its white paper.

My question about this project is: when will such application scenarios or demands explode? Is the idea of the project itself a bit ahead of its time?

Overall, this project attempts to solve the problem of performance evaluation in AI using blockchain, evaluating AI performance in a decentralized manner to prevent monopolization by centralized institutions.

• Modulus Labs: https://www.modulus.xyz/

The concept of this project is also very clear; it proposes a solution that uses zero-knowledge proof technology to ensure that the results produced by AI are not tampered with.

It is very similar to what Space and Time is doing, utilizing zero-knowledge proofs to ensure data security and prevent tampering.

• Ora: ++https://ora.ai/++

This project allows anyone to easily create personalized AI tools (such as AI chatbots). These personalized AI tools can be used in various scenarios, including daily life and business.

I did not find detailed technical introductions or a white paper on the project's official website, so I currently cannot see how this project relates to blockchain. I also do not see a need for the project to issue tokens.

• Ritual: https://ritual.net/

The vision of this project is to become the execution layer for AI, allowing blockchain applications to conveniently use various AI applications.

Its proposed solution is to build a distributed network where anyone can deploy their own AI applications (including large language models, machine learning models, etc.). Users can call the AI applications deployed on this network through a simple interface.

Its first product is Infernet. It allows blockchain smart contracts to call AI applications through an interface, or in other words, enables smart contracts to offload computational tasks to off-chain by calling AI applications.

In fact, if we expand our thinking, this distributed network can provide not only various applications but also various resources; moreover, the need for this service is not limited to smart contracts; any application has this demand. Therefore, this project has a certain imaginative space.

My question about this project is: when will the scenarios of widespread and extensive use of AI applications by smart contracts explode?

Overall, this project provides a decentralized AI application model using a distributed network.

• Olas: https://olas.network/

This project attempts to construct a network that can attract users to develop their own automation programs. These automation programs can autonomously interact with smart contracts.

The project will issue tokens, and the purpose of the tokens is to incentivize users to develop automation programs, enriching the functionality of this network.

The sector this project is in has demand; in fact, the numerous trading bots that have emerged recently are a type of this service.

But I have some questions:

How effective can simply using tokens as incentive chips be? How long can this sustainability last? Can the value of the tokens themselves be supported?

Historically, many projects have attempted to use blockchain technology as an incentive mechanism to improve efficiency, but very few have been proven effective in practice and survived.

I believe the fundamental issue here is that the value of the tokens themselves lacks support, and the incentive mechanism has not formed a closed loop.

Currently, there is not much information about this project in this regard.

Additionally, this project does not have a very close relationship with the currently popular AI technologies; it seems more like a solution for efficiently utilizing smart contracts through the development of automation programs.

Myshell: https://myshell.ai/

This project can be understood as a decentralized platform for discovering, creating, and aggregating AI applications.

Its logic and ideas are very clear.

However, seeing this project reminds me of another category of applications: social platforms.

Whenever we talk about the various popular social platforms today (such as Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, Douyin, etc.), we can easily point out the various centralized issues they have.

In response to these issues, similar decentralized applications have long emerged. Yet, over the years, these decentralized applications have not been able to break the monopoly of these centralized giants.

I think one reason for this is that people's social circles have already formed on those traditional platforms. The attraction of these social circles may far outweigh the problems brought by those platforms. So despite the many complaints, people are still reluctant to leave those giants.

Therefore, for platforms, quickly forming user habits and social circles may be key.

For this project, whether it can quickly establish usage habits among users is crucial.

This project utilizes blockchain technology to incentivize users to use and discover AI applications, and it does not involve modifying AI itself.

Reference link:

"Overview of 11 Mainstream Crypto AI Projects": ++https://www.jinse.cn/blockchain/3677551.html++