为什么去中心化人工智能正在兴起

一年前，“加密+人工智能”听起来像是一场“VC 疯狂的游戏”。现在，随着现实世界的应用程序开始出现，这个想法变得更加有意义。

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.

随着人工智能成为我们生活中更重要的一部分——这似乎是不可避免的——它将有能力塑造我们如何看待世界、如何与世界互动以及如何向世界展示。它可以塑造我们的思维方式。

Should this be controlled by the billionaire de jour?

这应该由当今的亿万富翁控制吗？

Let’s look at two concrete examples, one that’s straightforward and one that’s chilling. The next frontier of Gen AI is likely the rise of AI agents, which can do things like book your flight, pay your phone bill, or invest your money in stocks. (“Hey Siri, go ahead and put $1,000 in the S&P.”)

让我们看两个具体的例子，一个是简单的，另一个是令人毛骨悚然的。 Gen AI 的下一个前沿可能是人工智能代理的崛起，它可以做一些事情，比如预订航班、支付电话费或投资股票。 （“嘿 Siri，继续在标准普尔指数中投入 1,000 美元。”）

Do we want Big Tech to control not just our data, but also what we do with it?

我们是否希望大型科技公司不仅控制我们的数据，还控制我们如何处理这些数据？

More chilling: It’s likely that millions of people will someday use AI chatbots — perhaps through audio or even video — as coaches or even therapists. Early versions are here now. (On my podcast AI-Curious, for example, I interviewed a longtime coach who’s working with the German Research Center to develop AI-based personal coaching. It’s coming. It’s inevitable.) Millions of people will share their inner-most thoughts, longings, fears, sexual desires, confessions and embarrassments. Do we want this sliced and diced by Zuckerberg and co.?

更令人不寒而栗的是：有朝一日，可能有数百万人使用人工智能聊天机器人（可能通过音频甚至视频）作为教练甚至治疗师。早期版本现已推出。 （例如，在我的播客 AI-Curious 中，我采访了一位长期担任教练的教练，他正在与德国研究中心合作开发基于人工智能的个人教练。它即将到来。这是不可避免的。）数百万人将分享他们内心深处的想法和渴望、恐惧、性欲、坦白和尴尬。我们想要扎克伯格和他的同事们把它切成小块吗？

The decentralized and privacy-preserving tech of blockchain, potentially, could give us the fruits of AI without the poison of Big Tech.

区块链的去中心化和隐私保护技术可能会给我们带来人工智能的成果，而不会受到大型科技的毒害。