I posted the original thread here:
a compilation of what influencers & investors are saying about AI+crypto 👇🏽
ft @fredwilson, @VitalikButerin, @CryptoHayes, @caseykcaruso, @Travis_Kling, @vgr, @BinanceResearch, @DistilledCrypto, @varun_mathur
who have I missed? will append new ones as I come across them
🦜
— habits (@habits) February 15, 2024
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Fred Wilson
AI and Web3 are two sides of the same coin. AI will help make web3 usable for mainstream applications and web3 will help us trust AI. Together they will lead to a more powerful, more resilient, more trusted, and more equitable Internet
https://avc.xyz/what-will-happen-in-2024
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Vitalik Buterin
It’s a reasonable question: crypto and AI are the two main deep (software) technology trends of the past decade, and it just feels like there must be some kind of connection between the two. It’s easy to come up with synergies at a superficial vibe level: crypto decentralization can balance out AI centralization, AI is opaque and crypto brings transparency, AI needs data and blockchains are good for storing and tracking data.
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/01/30/cryptoai.html
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Arthur Hayes
“Any company that can be attacked in the analogue human legal field will be attacked by those who believe a for-company-profit AI implementation used their data without payment,” he continued. “It is an impossible problem to solve — how do you adequately pay every entity for their data?”
“The only way to create AIs as economic entities is for the ownership to be dispersed wide and far, such that there is no single centralized structure to attack in the traditional legal arena,” he added. “The market will quickly come to realize the entire lifecycle of an AI must be decentralized, which will in turn benefit networks such as Ethereum. Ethereum is the most robust decentralized computer in existence, and I fully expect it to peer power the future AI / human economy.”
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Casey Caruso
Since computational strength grows with resource consolidation, AI naturally fosters centralization, where those with more computing power progressively dominate. This introduces a risk to our rate of innovation. I believe decentralization and Web3 stand as contenders to keep AI open.
https://www.caseycaruso.com/thoughts/decentralized-ai
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Crypto, Distilled
Divides the web3 AI stack into: Agents, AI analytics; Authentication; Privacy; Data; Compute; Models
Blockchain = provable fairness; AI = unparalleled productivity
https://x.com/DistilledCrypto/status/1753300276298289169?s=20
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Travis Kling
AI is a clear opportunity for crypto, but I am wary about crypto’s ability to execute on that opportunity this cycle
https://twitter.com/Travis_Kling/status/1753455596462878815
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Varun Mathur
Centralized AI entities have consolidated immense power, regulatory capture, and using their growing network effects, there now exists a period of at most a year, before they cannot be competed against. The world they present to users is that of biased and limited interfaces, where the $20/month “pro” features are far outside the reach of say a college student in India.
https://twitter.com/varun_mathur/status/1754305144630440089
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Binance Research
Funding for AI-related web3 projects surged in 2023, reaching US$298M. This is more than the collective funding amount raised for AI projects from 2016 to 2022, at US$148.5M.
Areas of note: DePIN; Zero Knowledge; Consumer dapps; Data analytics
https://www.binance.com/en/research/analysis/ai-x-crypto-latest-data-and-developments/
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Venkatesh Rao
AI+blockchains point to a dystopia of impersonal and faceless interchangeable-parts humanity that’s more industrial than the industrial age.
https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/brains-chains-and-vibemobiles