Why A.I. Needs Blockchain to Evolve

Google, Amazon, IBM are all heavily investing in artificial intelligence. But have you ever heard of a little company using A.I., or even investing in it? I don’t think so, and the reason why is because A.I. is so expensive that only the biggest companies can currently afford to use it. Everyone knows that Artificial Intelligence is going to be a major thing in the future, so if it’s only accessible for big companies, it also means an enormous amount of consumers, nearly everyone actually, will only be able to use the A.I’s of these big companies. In other words: big companies will have an even bigger monopoly than they currently have. Scary, right?

Besides that, governments are also investing in it. You will think that it’s good that governments are investing in it, but it actually isn’t. The reason why is because all these governments are investing in A.I. for military purposes, which isn’t very reassuring. Now that you know the scary parts of Artificial Intelligence, I hope you will have understood by now that A.I. needs to be accessible to everyone and everywhere.

That’s the moment where blockchain comes into the spotlight and saves A.I. from the evil big companies and governments!!!

In fact… It’s a bit more complicated than that. First we need to clarify the main problems that A.I. encounters today.

1. There are a few teams in the world working on different A.I.’s who do not cooperate with each other. It’s like a competition. The problem with that is that the development of Artificial Intelligence is much slower because the different currently existing A.I’s can’t learn from each other. In other words: they are all separated.
2. It’s only available for big companies and wealthy governments because it costs a lot of money to develop. Big companies want to create a monopoly of it, and governments use it for military purposes. In short: they aren’t doing nice things.
3. For an A.I. to function, an enormous amount of computational power is needed which most companies don’t have.

Guess what? Blockchain solves all these problems.

1. Different A.I’s can learn from each other and evolve much quicker thanks to blockchain. By connecting different A.I’s on a blockchain, these A.I’s can communicate with each other and learn from each other.
2. The reason why A.I. is so expensive is because it needs a lot of computational power. By decentralizing Artificial Intelligence on a blockchain, anyone can participate in the network and let the A.I. use his/her computational power so that the A.I. is more efficient and less expensive to use. By doing so, blockchain solves the two last problems that I mentioned previously in this article. Because the cost is much lower now that everyone can participate in the network, it’s also accessible to everyone.

Now that you know why A.I. needs blockchain to evolve, I would like to mention two projects active in the blockchain + A.I. space which I think are worth a look at.