Why decentralized AI matters: three areas where blockchains help
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Argues AI is centralized by big tech's capital, compute and talent, and uses io.net's framework of distributed MLOps, hardware and provenance to explain how blockchains can decentralize it. Calls IO the leader in distributed hardware.
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IO was listed on Coinbase
Why does DeAI matter? 🤖 ✨
Today, AI development is highly centralized.
Competing in the AI space requires significant resources (capital, compute power, talent), which are monopolized by big tech.
Blockchains offer a decentralized alternative for AI development, enabling broader participation in securing, validating, and optimizing AI models.
@ionet has identified three key areas across which blockchains can help decentralize AI:
➤ Distributed MLOps: Using token incentives and decentralized networks to involve wider talent pools in tasks like data labeling and model finetuning.
➤ Distributed Hardware: Blockchain networks can monetize idle GPUs, offering smaller companies affordable access to essential AI hardware.
➤ Distributed Provenance: Blockchain ensures transparent, verifiable data lifecycles, solving issues like copyright infringement and deepfake threats.
The intersection of AI and blockchain bears great potential to create a more equitable, scalable and secure AI ecosystem with blockchain-based coordination layers reducing centralization in the field, and putting control back into the hands of society as a whole (vs. big tech monopolies).
$IO is the leading player in the distributed hardware space and just got listed on @Coinbase.
NFA but at least DYOR. ↓
Linking my post below wrt $IO listing on @coinbase. ↓
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QUOTING @ionet
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