BigchainDB and IPDB Meetup Recap: AI DAOs
Last week we held the fifth edition of our BigchainDB and IPDB meetup to one of our most enthusiastic crowds yet. Hosted at BlueYard, the evening was focused on all things Artificial Intelligence related, from how to define AI to business benefits, AI law and a look at a real world application of an AI DAO, terra0.
BigchainDB’s CTO and co-founder, Trent McConaghy, kicked off the evening with an exploration into the architectures of AI, knowledge extraction, machine creativity and artificial general intelligence.
“These days the goal isn’t to try and mimic human behavior directly, [AI] is really about a human level, or superhuman level, capacity for tasks.” — Trent McConaghy
Co-founder and Executive Director of IPDB, Greg McMullen took a legalistic approach to the topic, discussing liability, intellectual property laws, discrimination and how to create policy about and for AI.
“Sometimes we can’t see the patterns that exist in these enormous data sets but we might come back with results that reinforce or reestablish biases that we don’t want to have.” — Greg McMullen
Trent drove further into AI DAOs in the second part of his talk. One example he gave was of how an AI-based DAO, the ArtDAO. Using an AI art engine to generate new images, the DAO could claim attribution of the image and have it time-stamped to the blockchain. The ArtDAO could auto adapt at the code level based on human interaction and use algorithms to sell more art.
“We may have the world’s first AI millionaires, the world’s first AI billionaires. It doesn’t have mouths to feed so it can grow that much faster, it can reinvest all of its resources.” — Trent McConaghy
Paul Seidler and Paul Kolling closed the evening with an introduction to terra0, an ongoing project which proposes AI DAOs as proxies for natural systems. They presented an actual implementation prototype of this with a self-owning forest in Germany. In this semi-autonomous system, the forest could sell rights to log its own trees, using proceeds to maintain itself and expand.
“What is also embedded in this is that you could take other ecosystems and [ask] how other ecosystems can get paid for the services they already provide.” — Paul Seidler
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