🧞Shape the Future: Decentralized AI for Web3 Innovators
Learn why decentralizing AI is crucial and how Web3 can support this
GM and happy Monday frens🖖
AI (and especially Gen AI) is super hot now 🔥But to be honest, it lacks security, transparency, and user-controlled solutions. Blockchain is here to help it improve.
We decided to take a deep dive into the topic of dAI to shed some light on its potential and impact. Why AI should be decentralized and how Web3 technologies can complement and support this shift?
Today we're going to share with you:
🦾A hackathon for Web3 builders & AI enthusiasts
🎥 Video content and podcasts on decentralized AI
📖 Must-read articles for in-depth insight
👨🏻💻**dAGI House** hackathon & hacker house powered by cyber•Fund
We’re excited to announce that we, in collaboration with Cyber•fund, are organizing a hackathon & hacker house dedicated to developing decentralized AI. Attendance is free!
What we'll build at the hackathon?
Here are some examples of decentralized AI use cases and projects:
>> Autonomous agents
- Identity, wallets, smart contracts for interaction with autonomous agents
- Agentic economy [customer-agent, agent-agent, agent-human worker]
- Payment systems and financial primitives for AI
>> Data pipelines
- Collaborative and crowdsourced RAG datasets, labelling, synthetic data generation
- Crowdsourced pre-training and fine-tuning
>> Distributed infrastructure
- Inference on edge devices or networks of edge devices
- Aggregation, decentralized marketplace and routing of compute providers
>> User-owned models — specialized and optimized models
- custom models
- distillation techniques and networks
- inference optimizations and quantization
Hackathon partners and sponsors:
Naptha AI - Decentralized AI Workflow and Agent Orchestration
Pond - Large AI model designed for the crypto realm, providing recommendations on tokens with similar on-chain behaviors to those familiar to users
Allora - Self-improving decentralized AI network
Corcel - API Access to Artificial Intelligence, Decentralized
Galadriel - Layer 1 blockchain for AI
Marlin - Scalable coprocessors for decentralized compute
NEAR - The blockchain for the User-Owned AI
🧑💻"Why decentralized AI matters and how we should build it" – Stepan Gershuni, VC Principal, cyber•Fund
Stepan, one of the organizers of our hackathon, shared his insights at the Epic AI Dev summit in January. Discover the importance of decentralized AI and the best practices for building it.
🎧 Crypto's Answer to Centralized AI Monopolies – Empire Podcast Featuring Niraj, Ritual & Anand Iyer, Canonical
This podcast discusses the convergence of AI and crypto technologies, exploring how AI's advancements have created powerful tools like ChatGPT.
It highlights concerns about the centralization of AI technologies under major corporations and governments, proposing that decentralized solutions using blockchain and cryptocurrencies could offer more control and privacy.
The discussion covers practical applications, market observations, and potential future paths for integrating AI with decentralized systems to avoid monopolistic control.
📼The Battle Against Centralized AI: Emad Mostaque's Decentralized Vision
Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, talks about the economic consequences of AI and why it needs to be open-source and distributed on the Bankless podcast.
📌The future of centralized AI
An insightful article by one of the speakers at DAGI House brings up the potential outcomes and challenges of centralized AI.
This article highlights the risks of AI centralization, including data harvesting and power concentration by major corporations.
It stresses the need for open, decentralized AI systems to prevent economic manipulation and ensure equitable technological advancement. The urgency of adopting decentralized solutions is emphasized to safeguard our future.
📌 Why Decentralized Data Warehouses Are the Future of Web3 Technology
This article explores how decentralized data warehouses can revolutionize Web3 technology by providing more secure and efficient data management solutions.
📌The AI x Crypto Primer
The "AI x Crypto Primer" explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, discussing frameworks, project assessments, and the synergy between AI and blockchain technologies.
It highlights innovative projects that leverage both AI and crypto to address challenges in security, scalability, and decentralization.
PDF: https://alexcheema.github.io/AIxCryptoPrimer.pdf
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