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Re:MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockc... by wycs on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:25AM (#17886309)
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.
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Re:MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockc... by PakG1 on Friday August 31, 2018 @11:39AM (#17886427)
Trendy at the same time. They're contemporaries. Related by circumstance.

It's all just marketing.

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Re:MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockc... by ComradeTaco on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:14PM (#17886731)
The block chain has fundamentally reinvented the way startups fleece investors.
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Re:MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockc... by spaceten on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:29PM (#17887360)
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?

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Re:MIT Blockchain Systems Consortium: Scalable AI and Blockc... by cdetrio on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:01PM (#17886625)
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).
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