Potential development space for AI agent track

Source: Daoshuo Blockchain

If the road of financing AI agent development through methods similar to ICO can be taken, then we naturally have to ask how big the potential market space of this track will be.

I think it all depends on how big the potential user base it can serve is.

At this stage, because the users who understand this track are mainly users in the crypto ecosystem, the user group is limited to the crypto ecosystem. What kind of services the users in this ecosystem need, what kind of AI agent will come into being.

For example, AIXBT, which is quite popular recently, its function is to search the popularity of topics on Twitter and find the current hot projects. This function corresponds to the needs of the crypto ecosystem, which is to meet the needs of a considerable number of users looking for crypto projects.

In the future, if this model grows further, is it possible that not only users of the crypto ecosystem, but also users of traditional Web 2.0 will join this track after learning about this method and use this method to finance the AI ​​agents used in their development of Web 2.0?

I think it is possible.

When ICO was at its craziest in 2017, some domestic companies, because they had not been able to be listed on the A-share market, thought of cashing out in the crypto ecosystem by financing with ICO.

So in that extremely immature era, the applications of the crypto ecosystem had briefly gone out of the circle.

If this track can really be popular enough to attract developers of Web 2.0 AI agents, then the potential user base of this track will expand to the traditional Web 2.0 ecosystem, and it will go out of the circle again after ICO.

However, even if it develops to this point, I don’t think it is the most promising part.

In the interview mentioned in my article yesterday, the interviewee mentioned the following:

"You will have a virtual world with 100 different AI Agents, each with a different personality. As players, we can go in and fall in love, be hobbyists, and pursue becoming the world's richest man, etc. These AI Agents can make money because they are all independent individuals with their own wallets."

This vision is something I agree with very much.

Imagine that when we develop to that day, it means that there are likely to be more AI agents in the world than real human users.

The following words from the interviewee are even more imaginative:

"An agent who wants to become popular may not write songs, but can pay other agents to write a song; or if cryptocurrency data analysis is needed, it can find another agent who specializes in this area. This forms an autonomous agent economy or agent commerce, where agents can trade with each other because each agent has its own wallet and can pay service fees to achieve its goals."

This scenario means that AI agents may also create their own AI agents, and even eventually form an AI agent world parallel to the human world.

So if this model can develop to that point, the potential imagination space of this track is quite large.

Of course, there are still too many uncertainties in this process.

For example, although the AI ​​agents developed now can solve some problems, as user needs upgrade, can the existing technology continue to support the development of more complex AI agents?

After all, if the technical foundation for the development of AI agents is not available, and the functions of the developed AI agents are too simple, this track will not go too far.

For example, how far can this financing method support the project? What level of projects can it fund?

If the projects supported by this method cannot go too far, and there is no subsequent relay financing to continue to support the growth of the project, the functions of AI agents will be limited, and the development of this financing method will also be limited.

Finally, this financing method is essentially very similar to ICO. It is fine when the scale is small, but once the scale is large, will it encounter obstacles from supervision (especially US government supervision). And this point may have to wait until next year at the earliest, when the new US president takes office and officially introduces policies on crypto ecological supervision.

In short, this is a track that has just emerged. We can look forward to its future, but we must also see the many uncertainties it faces. How far this track can go, I guess we have to wait until next year to see the signs.