TL; DR
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The Dfinity Foundation and SingularityNET want to prevent technology giants from having a monopoly on AGI and use blockchain technology to do so.
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They want to achieve that goal by first selling access to AI training data via the ICP blockchain, so that all advanced/private AI models will rely on a set of data from a set of providers, spread around the world…
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While this all sounds great on paper, we have no idea if it will work in practice.
Full story
From 1990 to today, we’ve seen the growth of a handful of technology duopolies that control entire sectors of the Internet:
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Google & Bing own search
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Meta and TikTok own social media
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Amazon and Walmart own online stores
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Google and Apple own our mobile operating systems
That’s not great when it comes to ‘pushing innovation forward’… but at least these duopolies don’t pose a threat to civilization the way artificial general intelligence (AGI) does.
And that is something the Dfinity Foundation and SingularityNET want to protect against.
Not the threat that AGI will ‘take all SkyNet’ and kill us all (see gif ☝️), but to protect against the danger of AGI becoming owned by a single company/entity.
(Because that’s too much power for anyone to possess/exercise alone).
Their solution?
Make the world’s most advanced AI systems available to everyone, everywhere through decentralized networks so that these systems are not owned by a single technology company.
They want to achieve that goal by first selling access to AI training data via the ICP blockchain, so that all advanced/private AI models will rely on a set of data from a set of providers, spread around the world…
In theory, AGI monopolies should be much harder to form by fragmenting ownership of the data that powers these models across multiple entities and making it all publicly accessible.
But we have to be honest:
While this all sounds great on paper, we have no idea if it will work in practice.