Over the last few weeks, I've been thinking a lot about AI.
I initially thought the primary challenge would be intelligence.
More intelligent models.
Better reasoning.
Better answers.
At that point, it seemed apparent.
But the more I read, the less convinced I was.
Because while intelligence is important, it's not the only thing that makes up a society.
Trust is essential.
Memory is critical.
Communication is a key component.
Coordination is necessary.
Accountability is paramount.
I kept having this thought while I was investigating @OpenGradient .
The more I learned about verifiable execution, persistent memory, specialized nodes, and shared trust, the less it felt like an infrastructure to support models.
And the more it felt like an infrastructure to promote cooperation.
Perhaps it's the distinction between intelligence and civilization.
Intelligence solves problems.
Civilization solves problems together.
The future will not be owned by the highest functioning individual agents.
It will likely be owned by the systems which enable intelligence to remember, verify, communicate and coordinate at scale.
Because perhaps the true challenge was never to teach machines to be intelligent.
But rather to teach intelligence how to coexist with other forms of intelligence.
If this is true, then we may not be creating AI networks.
We may be creating digital societies.
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