Almost every day we receive new information about teaching AI new impressive tricks. Recently Nintex company announced the algorithm that will control employees’ working efficiency.

Despite the success, the neural network is still far from the perfective and oftentimes is programmed only for exactly task.

To achieve noticeable progress of AI, it is necessary to discover new approaches and provide neural network an access to large amounts of information. An excellent solution will be the combination of AI and blocking technology.

The perspectives

Watching all the developments that are now actively being introduced into a wide variety of areas, that is the blockchain and AI are immediately evident. Both technologies are actively used to create plenty of products that are relevant both at home and global.

At the first acquaintance with the blockade and AI it seems that there is nothing in common between them and their mutual integration is impossible. But this is not so! To understand how to combine them it is necessary to comprehend what constitutes a blockchain.

Decentralization

Blockchain is a special technology for creating a distributed registry, represented in the chain of blocks. The feature of this technology is that all transmitted information is kept unchanged in the blocks of the system and duplicated on the users’ personal machines.

Main principle of blockchain work is to perform a constant recording of information in environments of an unprotected type. At the same time there is no central “authority” in the system that ensures decentralization. As the result, the intermediaries are removed and it makes the system more convenient and effective for the user.

The trust here is achieved through the introduction of correct economic motivators in the system — such as transparency. The system is a variant of using the theory of games when all participants are motivated not by punishment or morality with laws, but exclusively by economic benefit. What does this mean? Observing the rules participants get the opportunity to earn more — mining of the crypto currency.

And where AI will be placed? For answering it is necessary to accept the principle of the operation of artificial intelligence and neural networks. For working of any neural network the access to Big Data is strongly needed. Today there is an oligopoly of information. Therefore, the main developers of machine learning algorithms are such well-known companies as Facebook, Google, Amazon etc. They create the most effective neural networks since they have closed data.

Accordingly we get a closed market of information that is available only by “the powerful of this world.” Therefore, all the AIs known to date do not fully meet the requirements of society. For further development, decentralization is needed and that is what gives the blockchain.

Combination of technologies



What will happen if you connect the blockchain with the AI? It will be possible to destroy the oligopoly of owning Big Data and make the market of information free and open. In this case, individual AI objects with the help of the blockchain will become economic agents. In this way, you can create “smart” things (auto-piloted machines, drones, etc.) that will function in conjunction with smart contracts.

Thus AI will act as a consumer of information that is distributed in the registry (blockchain). It can be assumed if both technologies are combined, the AI ​​will conduct a crypto-currency mining when performing useful calculations. And this is interest for the miners who will not only support the neural network and provide it new Big Data, but also to extract digital currency.

In Bitcoin, Dash, etc. systems large volumes of transactional activity, so the blockchain for AI is an excellent source of information — Big Data. After all, instead of transactions on cryptocurrencies, legal documentation data, mail delivery, etc. can be transferred.

Blockchain is quite going to become the basis for super-AI.