Here at AiBB we spend a lot of time thinking about what happens when Ai and blockchain combine to take over the world.

Well, maybe not take over the world. To be truly brilliant, Ai has to start small, with subjects it can learn and learn well, in order to serve us better.

We heard tech founder Cristina Fonseca say:

You can start by automating a process that is well defined but it’s manual (models and algorithms need to learn with humans, remember?). Or get a small percentage of the data you have available and try to make sense of it. Start by training a model to work well on your machine instead of worrying about GPUs and complex infrastructure setups.

We couldn’t agree more — after all, we concentrate our efforts on what may seem like a tiny corner or the world’s knowledge — cryptocurrency trading. Our Ai is brilliant because 1. We have partnered with the best Ai around to make it rock-solid and 2. We focus on making AiBB a genius at just one little area of knowledge we know it can conquer.

Our mission is making sure traders have correct, actionable knowledge to make better trades (You can check out our White Paper here for the nitty gritty on the geeky side of how we make this happen).

But there are tons of amazing companies advancing Ai in other niches on the blockchain, coming up with other areas to teach our Ai, then connecting it to the blockchain. They’re like our BlockAi cousins. They’re making sure that in the future, what we know is both decentralized as well as trustworthy. They’re making sure Ai is exploding in all the right ways — as an exciting field with the potential to improve our lives, give us better information, and help us make better decisions.

We’re in no way advocating or investing in these guys — we’re just fan girls and boys showcasing what other big dreams happen when Ai + blockchain meet. We think it’s an overlap made in heaven.

So don’t take our word for it. Aside from cryto-trading, check out how the Ai blockchain combo is being used all over the world:

1. Healthcare and data privacy

BurstIQ, a Colorado-based blockchain company, is leveraging machine learning as part of a suite of healthcare services. The Ai can make individualized health plans, accessing all the patient’s data across service providers, pharmacies, and other stops along the way in a patient’s (often) disjointed healthcare history. It identifies needs among the thousands of touchpoints in an individual’s healthcare data, and therefore saves time and money. Heck, as well as getting patients in shape faster or identifying tests they may want to consider earlier.

2. Genetics and Research

You may also find out about your specific medical needs these days by having genetic testing done. But your very DNA quite often ends up in centralized databases, sold to the highest bidder and with only minimal assurance it is not linked to your personal medical data. Enter blockchain. Though security and privacy are very different, having both for your DNA (but still allowing you to sell it to researchers and help cure diseases) may be possible. Nebula Genetics, providing security of genetic data through blockchain, has partnered with Longenesis to analyse medical data alongside genomics to search for the best ways to develop cures.

3. IoT

Sophia the robot can hear you, respond to you, and even sympathize with you. She was famously the only Ai-based robot given citizen status a couple years back (Saudi Arabia), and now companies responsible for her technology are conspiring to make Ai of our future assistants even more lifelike with blockchain integrated.

If an Ai-powered blockchain backed the analyses of our most human Ai, like Sophia, these smarter robotics could power smart houses, smart cities, smart cars, and smart…well, you get the picture. Singularity.net has its sights set on an Ai marketplace where anyone can contribute to the smarts of the machines we use everyday. They’d get paid for their part in the Ai, and buyers and sellers could trust one another remotely, thanks to blockchain.

What they’re doing is democratizing Ai, so that more companies and individuals can capitalize on crowdsourced knowledge and scripts to create smarter solutions of all kinds.

Some other “smart city” applications focus their efforts on individual industries. In the energy industry, consumers in Asia will be able to choose their electricity provider based on Ai algorithms that determine the best choice for them based on use and cost. After finding the right company, transacting on blockchain makes sense. Electrify came from a diverse market where it was tough to find the right company or compare them. But Ai adds value to the process, making for a smarter consumer decision for users.

It just means more great Ai in the ecosystem, which pushes the tech farther for everyone looking to incorporate Ai into their projects.

4. Advertising

Ai is a great way to trim hours from influencer marketing research and vet how “influential” those potential partners really are, as well as whether they’ve done what they were supposed to do. It automates these transactions and pays according to smart contracts, for easier transactions for both parties.

AdHive does a good job of defining an annoying problem and using Ai in a completely laser-focused way. Their platform makes it a snap to identify influencers by demographic, audience, and location, make sure they’re a good fit, then pay them for a job well done. All without spending the time it currently takes to research all these variables, then reach out and negotiate a deal with multiple individuals.

5. Selling and Insuring our Stuff

The problems in marketplaces are pretty obvious: when I want to buy and sell, or even insure, my things, it’s hard to fairly price them. It’s even hard to return to them later and confirm they were real, worth what I said, and truly damaged in that accident. Hello, Ai and blockchain, you were made for dilemmas like these.

Ai can see patterns in your driving as well as your diamonds, log damage immutably on blockchain, and release payments when conditions are met. In the case of car insurance from companies like Kasko2Go, 3D scans and confirmations of car damage along with car IDs individually logged on blockchain lead to automatic price calculations and fund release. No more shopping around to collect quotes and then submitting them and waiting for your insurance company to verify them and pay.

In the case of your diamonds, Rare Carat has partnered with Everledger to provide Ai-based reports on provenance, so you know for sure where that rock came from, that it’s not a conflict diamond, and when it was last sold.

When it comes to shopping, Shopin has been using Ai to help retailers match offers to consumer’s actual taste — data that is owned by consumers. Shoppers opt into sharing with Shopin’s recommendation engine, which uses Ai to make better recommendations. It gives retailers higher conversions, and spares customers from seeing those random ads.

6. Hedge Funds

Ai is already a logical way to parse data points from past trades and predict smart investments for the future. And hedge funds often use such technology, but not from thousands of data scientists. Numerai is democratizing the process, putting as many real, human-intelligent humans in the mix so that their knowledge can influence the Ai that predicts trades. They bring more machine learning models to the Ai undergirding hedge fund trading, and encourages more predictions from more scientists so that more knowledge can go into better predictions.

7. Good, old-fashioned help

Ai and blockchain can be used to run our lives. Take the Farley family. Matt Farley invented his own family cryptocurrency altcoin, the Farley coin. It is governed by smart contracts and 36 Alexa Dots running in the Farley family home.

The Farley family takes personalized Ai help to the extreme. But enterprises are waking up to the same idea: that families and businesses could use smarter, personalized Ai and transactions on blockchain to run more smoothy. And if it works with the Farley teenagers, it’s got to be at least a little useful for getting things done in business.

Crypto Angel is the future of Ai assistants. The project claims it synthesizes and learns from millions of files to develop a “mastermind” and that Ai developers add to the mind, with more and more data points making the technology smarter as it is developed.

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One day, these masterminds may take our jobs, or Ai may simply offer us brand new projects to work on that safer and more profitable. Ai may usurp our humanity itself — but probably not.

In the end, it is only one tool of a smarter future and combining it with blockchain makes sense to us, so we’re happy to see this combo being applied in almost every vertical we can see.