For a time I thought Artificial Intelligence and cryptocurrency were two completely separate things. One seemed complicated and was controlled by big companies while the other was all about people making guesses and trying to make money quickly.. Over the last few months I noticed something interesting happening between Artificial Intelligence and cryptocurrency. Artificial Intelligence was getting better and better. The people who were actually making it work were not being paid fairly. At the time blockchain technology had already shown that it was possible for people to own things in a decentralized way. This connection between Artificial Intelligence and blockchain technology is what led me to discover OpenLedger.
At first I thought OpenLedger was another project that was trying to use Artificial Intelligence to make money.. The more I learned about OpenLedger, the more I realized that it was trying to solve a much bigger problem. Of just focusing on making Artificial Intelligence more powerful OpenLedger was trying to figure out how to make intelligence something that people can own and sell.
This idea stuck with me for days because when you think about it the Artificial Intelligence system we have today is really centralized. Big models are trained using data from millions of people. The people who contributed that data do not get to benefit from it. Independent developers build Artificial Intelligence tools but they have to rely on closed platforms to share them with others. Even the datasets that are used to train Artificial Intelligence models are not transparent so people do not know who owns them or how they are being used.
What I liked about OpenLedger was that it was not just talking about this problem it was actually trying to solve it. OpenLedger treats data, models and Artificial Intelligence agents like things that can be bought and sold. Of being controlled by private companies OpenLedger creates a system where people can contribute to Artificial Intelligence and get paid for it in a transparent way.
The technical side of OpenLedger was also well thought out. I spent time reading about how the protocol was designed for Artificial Intelligence rather than trying to use traditional blockchain technology. This is important because Artificial Intelligence systems are different from blockchain systems. Artificial Intelligence systems create a lot of interactions and data and OpenLedger seems to understand that future Artificial Intelligence economies will not work like economies.
What made OpenLedger seem more important to me was the timing. We are entering a period where Artificial Intelligence is being used to create more content. Soon it will be really important to know where that content comes from and how it was made. OpenLedgers focus on transparency seems like it will be necessary for the future of the internet.
I also think that OpenLedger is part of a shift in technology. For a time digital platforms have been built to take value from users and give it to companies. OpenLedger seems like it is trying to change that by creating systems where the people who contribute to them can also benefit from them.
After learning more about OpenLedger I stopped thinking of it as another cryptocurrency project. To me it seems like a framework for how decentralized Artificial Intelligence economies could work in the future. Whether or not it will succeed is something that only time will tell. I think the ideas behind it are really important.
Because in the end the future of Artificial Intelligence will not just be about who can build the powerful models. It will also be, about who can build the systems for owning and using Artificial Intelligence.. That is exactly what OpenLedger is trying to do.
