TL;DR
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The Dfinity Foundation and SingularityNET want to stop tech giants from having a monopoly on AGI and are using blockchain tech to do so.
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They aim to realize that goal by first selling access to AI training data via the ICP blockchain, so that all advanced/privately owned AI models will rely on a range of data, from a range of providers, scattered around the globe…
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While this all sounds great on paper…we have no idea whether or not it will work in practice.
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From 1990 until today, we’ve seen a handful of tech duopolies grow to control entire sectors of the internet:
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Google & Bing own search
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Meta & TikTok own social media
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Amazon & Walmart own online shopping
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Google & Apple own our mobile operating systems
Which ain’t great as far as ‘pushing innovation forward’ goes…but at least these duopolies don’t pose a civilizational threat, like artificial general intelligence (AGI) does.
And that’s something the Dfinity Foundation and SingularityNET want to protect against.
Not the threat of AGI ‘going all SkyNet’ and killing us all (see gif ☝️), but to protect against the danger of AGI being owned by a single company/entity.
(Because that’s too much power for anyone to own/wield alone).
Their solution?
Make the most advanced AI systems on the planet available to anyone, anywhere via decentralized networks, so that these systems aren’t owned by a single tech company.
They aim to realize that goal by first selling access to AI training data via the ICP blockchain, so that all advanced/privately owned AI models will rely on a range of data, from a range of providers, scattered around the globe…
In theory, by fragmenting the ownership of the data that powers these models across multiple entities and making it all publicly accessible, AGI monopolies should be much harder to form.
We have to be honest though:
While this all sounds great on paper…we have no idea whether or not it will work in practice.
