It is a new age of the machines capable of speaking, writing, drawing and they were even able to reason. Nonetheless, despite all this smartness, there is a strange weakness of most AI systems. They forget. They forget context. They forget people. They forget yesterday. Each message or communication are likely to start at a point as though nothing serious has ever happened before. It is neither a technical disadvantage. It is a technical flaw and it determines the work of the digital systems, experience to the user, will they build up or tear down trust.
I would guess that the next new software battle will not be speed and Intelligence. It will be about memory. Its owner, its whereabouts, in whom it is joint property and shall it be maintained without misuse. Vanar Chain is one of them, and belongs to the period when memory is the infrastructure but not even a glance in this silent yet deadly battle.
The cost of clean-up and Loose Brain AI.
The existing interaction between most of the population and AI is interchangeable. You ask a question, you get answered and you continue. The devices will tend to consider you as an object which has not seen you in a long time. It forgets what will please you and what man would fain do in the long run, niceties of the surrounding, which are dear to conversations, and make them human. Such forgetfulness is typically an additional option of security or privacy though not confined to that. Memory can hardly be invented, it can hardly be locked or it can hardly be decentralized.
Memory is closely related to intelligence of man. We learn by remembering. We trust by remembering. It is the experience that makes us grow and develop. The long-term memory will make AI superficial. Useful, yes, but shallow. It can calculate, and not literally follow. It is capable of responding and it cannot see continuity.
This is what is causing the loss of the layer by memory. Otherwise, AI will be transactional. Through it, AI is relational.
The memory is an infrastructure and not a feature.
Internet has also been invented when a problem storage occurred in the memory. Databases held records. Servers kept logs. The details of the users were displayed on the platforms and the time of presence and utilization listed. The model had been effective where the web was entrenched and a sensible control was not provided to the user.
Today, that model is breaking. The meaning produced by the AI systems is time-based. Virtual worlds persist. The digital identities are cross platform. The music was creative hence lived beyond the instrument. In this environment, memory is no longer employed as a storage. It is infrastructure.
It has to be a uniform, indispensible and passive infrastructure. It does not fade away in a day. Power grids cannot always be switched on during a morning. With the same in mind, the deletion of the digital memory would be impossible in case one session has been initiated or in the case a platform would make sure to act in a different way.
But, without any screaming there is the introduction of blockchains into the discourse, only this time, blockchains are not introduced with the warning that they are a hypothetical resource but a memory rail.
Decentralized memory is important.
It has a poor and decentralized memory. It will be conditional on whether the companies will come out of their own or not, tell truth and are consumer friendly. It is gambling with death as history would testify. Platforms shut down. Policies change. Data gets repurposed. The net takes away the personal history of consumers.
There is still another vow of decentralized memory. Such information can be in the shape of absence of the actor. Ownership can be clearer. Rules of access can be open. Above all, memory could be composed. It can be read, written on by many systems and expanded without any permission of a central gatekeeper.
For AI, this is critical. The AI retrieval of memory cannot be limited to one application in a decentralized level. It is able to track a user inter-contextually. It can remember and not own. It has an ability to study without exploitation.
In this the melancholy manner of Vanar turns it.
Vanar is not an advertised memory chain that impersonates itself to be AI. In fact, it is factoring significant amounts of its communications to on-line experience, gaming and virtual worlds. There is, though, something below that. Vanar will be used to persist.
There is the demand of long-term memory in the long-term settings. The virtual worlds become not willing to start and become physical. It is noteworthy that the digital objects will lose meaning when they are lost with no meaning. The spaces that are unmuch inventive are not viable in the fact that they are unable to preserve history. Vanar architecture is less biased towards the short lived information, shallow friction interactions or environments that are expected to be live over time and are not restricted to the hype cycle.
This would render Vanar appealing in the AI front that is not necessarily making it out. World AI agents that are persistent require memory. They must be in a position to meander backwards the past, to understand the changing space and be adjusted to the communities. There accompanies this need a chain in which one of the values instilled is the value of persistence.
This is where I suppose Vanar comes into the higher battle of memory. In the contest of clanking, not, but as a flat plane.
The emotional side of memory
Memory is not just technical. It is emotional. Human beings become concerned about their backgrounds. Their creations. Their progress. It is not the case when the systems lose their memory and the users do not experience it. This is something that systems must avoid presenting false memories as this places the users on the same level as vulnerability.
The balance is delicate. Respectful memory is good. And it is upon that which thou clingest, forgetteth was. This level of the scales is extremely hard to strike when the centralized system is employed as the instincts are expected to run on the false side.
A closer match is offered with decentralised memory. The users can choose what they would be saving. They can give beselective access. They can afford to risk going out for their memory and leave their memory.
This is even more so in the case of AI coming closer. It is a subjective remembrance of an AI, which lacks a subjective memory. It is unnatural to have a personal AI, one belonging to a corporation, though. Thirdly is level memory infrastructure.
It might sound like it is a peaceful war but why is it a war?
The earliest phases when infrastructure wars occur do not involve much noise. They unfold slowly. Competing standards emerge. Silent resolutions prevail in the future. Most of the people would not have known what has transpired only to realize it too late.
It will be the competition whose existence in the world of the digital world. Are there memory cataclysmic, meager platforms in closed platforms? or will it be a popularity layer, the one of the users, and one which will be available to many of the systems?
AI speeds up such a collision as it can increase the worth of the memory. One remembered choice can have an impact on thousands of the future relations. A facility of a holding of artistic history can enlighten systems in years. Memory compounds.
Such slogans are not the way chains such as Vanar are getting this war. They are locating themselves through the construction of that supposes persistence, minimal expense interaction and settings that supposes enduring being. That is a strategic choice.
What I myself think happens.
I do not believe that the screaming chains are the prototypes that are fast and that they are the ones that are carrying the future. It is an element of the mechanisms that are able to understand time. Memory is about time. About continuity. The show of piety to the olden days.
The amnesic AI will continue to represent an even more outdated phenomenon as those sites where one can find the updated information after clicking on it are also updating. The users will require that the systems should be in a form of memory as they get advanced but in a secure and acceptable manner.
Vanar is an insightful method of arriving to this future. It is not trying to usurp memory in an offputting way, either. It is trying to host it. That difference matters.
The AI forgetful is not going to be slain at night. But, when that it is, we shall find that that was not a quality of memory. An entire segment was based on it.