Using blockchain to eliminate bias in artificial intelligence models could prove to be the technology’s “killer use case,” executives attending the World Economic Forum in Davos said. Blockchain company Casper Labs and computer giant IBM have teamed up to create an AI data bias tracking system.
Hallucinations in the field of artificial intelligence
Some business leaders attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos have argued that using blockchain to root out bias or misinformation in the data used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models is the ‘killer user case ‘ of technology could be.
According to a report by CNBC, blockchain is now preferred as it allows AI developers to keep track of the data on which their respective models are trained. Blockchain company Casper Labs and multinational technology company IBM have partnered to create such AI and continue to replicate it even beyond their interactions with the artificial intelligence model.
However, Medha Parlikar, the chief technology officer and co-founder of Casper Labs, speaking at a WEF panel discussion, suggested that her company’s solution is already proving useful in tackling the problem of AI bias.
“And if you’re using the AI and you notice that the AI is starting to hallucinate, you can actually reverse the AI. And so you can undo some of what you’ve learned and go back to an earlier version of the AI,” Parlikar said.
Sheila Warren, the CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, emphasized that an AI tracking solution could be perhaps the blockchain’s most consequential use case and confirms calls for its wider adoption. She added:
“I actually think that the verification of an AI and some kind of checks and balances… within an AI system will be blockchain-driven and blockchain-enabled.”
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