{"id":25380,"date":"2024-12-29T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/?p=25380"},"modified":"2024-12-30T15:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:21:45","slug":"what-is-decentralized-ai-deai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/what-is-decentralized-ai-deai\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Decentralized AI and Why We Need It ASAP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we think of centralized AI gone wrong, imaginative readers may begin to conjure images of a society ruled by artificial general intelligence-powered robot overlords.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as the Bitcoin movement was born out of a desire to create a permissionless financial system, decentralized AI aims to democratize access to AI technologies by removing gatekeeper chokepoints.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Decentralization, in step with the open-source programming philosophy, offloads the heavy burden of auditing and data security to a global community, which decentralization proponents believe to be an effective means to watchdog against the potential of a centralized AI Frankenstein growing too strong for centralized systems to control.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If it sounds dystopian, that\u2019s because it is\u2014such was the plot of Terminator; Arnold\u2019s character was just one of a series of machines designed by Skynet, a fictional artificial intelligence created by a centralized organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While decentralized AI isn\u2019t a guaranteed insurance policy against dystopia, it hints at a necessary alternative construction to the nascent centralized systems, the true risks we may not realize until it\u2019s too late.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why Do We Need Decentralized AI in the First Place?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Machine learning improves with the quantity of data available, and consumer-friendly products like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.AI will continue to improve as they grow in popularity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Providing models with training data, Users are often oblivious to the value they generate for private companies just by using them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

AI\u2019s potential to pull the economic rug from virtually any career path and the out-of-whack monetary incentives for users are parts of an entirely different rabbit hole we’ll explore in a future article.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the greatest risk is what happens if these highly trained models end up in the wrong hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OpenAI, for example, has been under intense scrutiny over recent moves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apple and OpenAI <\/span>announced a partnership on June 10th, 2024<\/span><\/a>, that would bring ChatGPT into Apple\u2019s suite of products, including iOS, MacOS, and iPadOS, a collaboration that\u2019ll likely lead to a mindblowing customer experience far exceeding any recent iOS update.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The other hand, however, is troublesome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although the press release states, \u201crequests are not stored by OpenAI, and users\u2019 IP addresses are obscured. Users can also choose to connect their ChatGPT account, which means their data preferences will apply under ChatGPT\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, OpenAI\u2019s models would be trained on incredibly intimate personal behavior and information, which could be used for whatever purpose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n