前沿资讯：去中心化人工智能为何越来越火？
A year ago, “Crypto+AI” sounded like a game of “VC mad libs.” Now, as real-world applications begin to emerge, the idea makes much more sense. Jeff Wilser, who is hosting the AI Summit at Consensus 2024, offers a preview of the programming and reviews the decentralized AI state-of-play.
一年前，"加密+人工智能 "听起来像是一场 "风险投资疯狂自由派 "的游戏。现在，随着现实世界的应用开始出现，这个想法就更有意义了。杰夫-威尔瑟（Jeff Wilser）是 Consensus 2024 大会人工智能峰会的主办人，他对会议的日程安排进行了预览，并回顾了去中心化人工智能的现状。
Almost exactly one year ago, I wrote a piece for CoinDesk called 10 Ways Crypto and AI Can Make Each Other Better (or Maybe Worse). At the time, the idea of “Crypto + AI” was still a novel concept. Even fringe. To many, AI development felt adjacent — at best — to the world of Web3. To others, “Crypto + AI” felt like a cynical mix of two hype-y trends, like VC mad libs.
几乎整整一年前，我曾为 CoinDesk 写过一篇文章，名为《加密货币和人工智能相互促进的 10 种方式》。当时，"加密货币+人工智能 "还是一个新奇的概念。甚至是边缘概念。对许多人来说，人工智能的发展充其量只是与 Web3 的世界相邻；而对其他人来说，"加密货币 + 人工智能 "则像是两种炒作趋势的玩世不恭的混合体，就像风险投资的疯狂自由派。
Decentralized AI is arguably the hottest topic in the web3 space. Dozens of projects — maybe hundreds, it’s hard to keep track — are now racing to merge the tools of blockchain with the taming of AI. The space is booming. By the time you finish reading this article, another DePIN startup will have launched. And the architects of this movement are converging in Austin, for Consensus 2024, in CoinDesk’s inaugural “AI Summit.”
去中心化人工智能可以说是 Web3 领域最热门的话题。目前，数十个项目--也许有数百个，很难跟踪--都在争先恐后地将区块链工具与人工智能驯服相结合。这个领域正在蓬勃发展。当你读完这篇文章时，另一家 DePIN 初创公司已经启动。而这场运动的设计师们正在奥斯汀汇聚一堂，参加 CoinDesk 的首届 "人工智能峰会"--"共识 2024"（Consensus 2024）。
You could argue that the stakes of decentralized AI are higher than the stakes of decentralized finance. In some ways the principles are the same. Satoshi Nakamoto was wary of centralized financial institutions that acted badly and jeopardized people’s money. As AI becomes a greater part of our lives — and that feels inevitable — it will have the power to shape how we see the world, how we interact with the world, and how we present to the world. It could shape how we think. Should this be controlled by the billionaire de jour?
可以说，去中心化人工智能的风险比去中心化金融的风险更高。在某些方面，原则是相同的。中本聪对集中式金融机构的不良行为和危害人们金钱的行为保持警惕。随着人工智能在我们的生活中占据越来越重要的位置--这似乎是不可避免的--它将有能力塑造我们看待世界的方式、我们与世界互动的方式以及我们向世界展示的方式。它可以塑造我们的思维方式。这应该由当日的亿万富翁来控制吗？
While an explosion of AI + Crypto projects have launched since 2022, some have been around for years and have been quietly building. One is Singularity NET, founded in 2017 by Ben Goertzel, a prominent AI researcher, with an early vision of building decentralized AI. “My initial vision for what became SingularityNET occurred to me in ’95 or ’96, when the internet became a thing,” Goertzel told me recently in Panama City, at an AI conference hosted by Singularity. “It seemed to me, the internet shouldn’t be centralized. The internet is a decentralized network. So why would you want to have a centralized search service?” The seeds of this idea included AI (which he has studied since the 80s), and Goertzel has the receipts: A 2001 book “Creating Internet Intelligence” that fuses all these concepts.
尽管自 2022 年以来，人工智能+加密货币项目呈爆炸式增长，但有些项目已经存在多年，并一直在悄然建设。其中一个是奇点网络（Singularity NET），由著名人工智能研究员本-戈尔策尔（Ben Goertzel）于 2017 年创立，其早期愿景是构建去中心化人工智能。"我对后来的 SingularityNET 的最初构想是在 95 年或 96 年，当时互联网已经成为一种事物，"戈特泽尔最近在巴拿马城奇点举办的人工智能会议上告诉我。"在我看来，互联网不应该是集中式的。互联网是一个去中心化的网络。那么，为什么要有一个集中式的搜索服务呢？这个想法的种子包括人工智能（他从上世纪 80 年代就开始研究人工智能），戈兹尔拥有收据： 2001 年出版的《创造互联网智能》一书融合了所有这些概念。
Goertzel will share his thoughts on how to actually pull off this vision at the AI Summit, along with other pioneers trying to hammer out the plumbing, pipes, and protocols of decentralized AI. That brings us to DePIN (or decentralized physical infrastructure networks), where communities of token-holders are incentivized to participate in building online services.
在人工智能峰会上，戈尔泽尔将与其他试图制定去中心化人工智能管道、管道和协议的先驱者一起，分享他对如何真正实现这一愿景的想法。这让我们想到了 DePIN（或去中心化物理基础设施网络），在这里，代币持有者社区被激励参与构建在线服务。
在人工智能峰会上，戈尔泽尔将与其他试图制定去中心化人工智能管道、管道和协议的先驱者一起，分享他对如何真正实现这一愿景的想法。这让我们想到了 DePIN（或去中心化物理基础设施网络），在这里，代币持有者社区被激励参与构建在线服务。
