The future of blockchain + AI

Source: Daoshuo Blockchain

During the online communication last weekend, many friends asked questions about AI and mentioned the view I agree with in the article: cryptocurrency is the currency that AI naturally uses.

In my guess, for AI, if they really develop their own desires and thoughts in the future, they must also exchange "assets" and "information".

In this process, whether as an intermediate equivalent for exchange or as an "item" that AI really needs, I believe that crypto assets are indispensable and the most credible assets------especially those that are as decentralized as possible and have global transfer characteristics.

And the intermediate equivalent fiat currency currently used by humans is difficult to be accepted and used by AI. Let alone other things, just say that registration identity and various regulatory restrictions are an insurmountable obstacle.

And when AI has blockchain-based crypto assets as its intermediate equivalent for exchanging "assets" and "information", they can start to create applications based on their own needs.

So what are the applications that AI needs?

I think this is hard for humans to imagine. Because AI is a completely new species, just like Musk said: The relationship between AI and humans is probably just a switch turned on by silicon-based life and carbon-based life. When this switch is turned on, how AI will develop will become more and more difficult for humans to understand.

When I first came into contact with the crypto ecosystem and talked about this ecosystem with my friends, many friends liked to describe the scenario that we want to develop applications such as "decentralized WeChat", "decentralized short videos", "decentralized Twitter", etc.

In my opinion, this kind of thinking is just a simple linear extension. It cannot be said to be wrong, but it is not a disruptive application. Disruptive applications are likely to jump out of our daily thinking, and are leap thinking rather than extended thinking.

I prefer to use "Mars" and "Earth" to compare the crypto world and our current centralized world.

We are people living on "Earth", but the crypto world is "Mars". We like to use the thinking of "Earthlings" to think about the needs of "Martians". I believe that some of the needs of "Martians" are indeed the same as those of "Earthlings", but more applications of "Martians" must be completely different from those of "Earthlings".

Before, I could not think of where this "Martian" was. There is indeed a very small number of "Martians" on "Earth", and the applications they create meet the needs of "Mars". But there are too few such people. How can such a small number of people create a prosperous "Mars" ecosystem?

What's more, it may be an impossible task to expect "Earthlings" to create a prosperous "Mars" ecosystem.

Perhaps this is an important reason why the application of the crypto ecosystem is so sluggish in this cycle.

But the emergence of AI has made me see the emergence of "Martians".

Both AI and crypto assets are products of the Internet, both are intangible, both are interoperable, and both are irreversible (once they appear, the possibility of being destroyed is extremely small)...

But at the same time, the two have a strong complementary relationship: AI has a strong centralized attribute, while crypto assets have a strong decentralized attribute.

At the same time, what is more interesting is that in the face of AI centralization, we have been committed to solving its problems with decentralization; and in the crypto ecosystem, we are facing the ubiquitous threat of centralization.

This characteristic of mutual generation and mutual restraint, but also of you in me and me in you, is very similar to our Tai Chi diagram. In our culture, it is the fundamental driving force for the advancement and development of all things, and I believe it is also the fundamental driving force for the advancement and development of the virtual world.

Therefore, I now believe that the more exciting period of the crypto world will be when AI has consciousness and desire, and begins to create its own applications in the crypto ecosystem and learns to meet its own needs.

The role played by humans in the crypto world may be the same as that played by humans in AI. It is just turning on the switch, and the subsequent glory will be opened and created by the integration of these two ecosystems.