Squid Game has become a huge hit, are you aware the AI black technology behind it?
Recently, Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ has reaped great success worldwide, making a series of elements in the drama a big hit. A variety of offline theme experiences derived from the series have become exceptionally popular.
The drama is so popular that elements of AI technology (such as the giant doll Young-hee) have doubled the show’s appeal and pushed the plot’s horror aesthetic to its climax.
Young-hee is an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) robot, which must accurately and fairly track and monitor the movement of multiple people at the same time, and to shoot multiple moving individuals in the crowd accurately, quickly and indiscriminately. One robot can complete multi-target tracking, motion detection, face recognition, calibration shooting and other tasks.
Art reflects life, artificial intelligence in the film is not far from our real life. At present, the Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) that stands out in a single aspect has been widely used in manufacturing. Even the Alpha Go a few years ago, has long been unbeatable in Go.
Kurzweil, president of Singularity University ( co-founded by Google, NASA, and several technology experts), estimates that the world will enter the era of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in 2029 and the era of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) in 2045.
That is to say, whether you accept it or not, AI is destined to be involved in our ordinary life and the physical world in the future. It is either in the form of a companion robot or a self-driving car, and even the games cannot be without AI applications.
The value of AI is undoubtedly to become as an infrastructure, while the combination of AI and a series of new technologies can achieve an incredible effect. Such as AI + blockchain, AI can solve the blockchain’s problems in autonomy, efficiency, energy saving and intelligence, while blockchain can bring the isolated and fragmented AI to general intelligence through sharing.
Then what are the AI+blockchain projects worthy of attention at present? We have summarized the following projects for consideration: Fetch.ai , SingularityNET , EpiK Protocol , Matrix AI Network , Ocean Protocol.
Fetch.ai
Fetch.ai is an artificial intelligence blockchain platform. Launched in 2017, it is building an open, tokenized, decentralized machine learning network that provides smart contract capabilities to deploy machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions to enable an intelligent infrastructure built on a decentralized digital economy.
The project’s token FET has been fluctuating in a narrow horizontal pattern for more than a year, from late 2019 to early 2021. But it has a growing number of real-world applications, such as a new multimodal transportation app called Deep Parking being tested this year. The application is combining AI and blockchain technology to assist drivers in accurate parking.
These applications have also successfully driven up the price of FETs. On July 28, 2021, coinbase officially launched FET.
On September 7 of the same year, a Fetch.ai on-board agent was successfully interacted with Datarella’s autonomous identity, allowing drivers to rent an electric scooter from Tier Mobility. This has become a ‘global origination’.
As a result of this news, FET price surged 70% on the same day to $1.12, hitting a record high and up more than 100 times from the historical lowest price point. Meanwhile, FET’s 24-hour trading volume spiked 538% to $590 million on the same day.
SingularityNET
Launched in 2017, SingularityNET’s value lies in combining blockchain technology to create a decentralized AI algorithm and data sharing network that allows everyone to share AI technology.
The development team has established a globally accessible AI marketplace that allows anyone to easily “create, share and monetize” AI services. In this marketplace, users can browse, test and purchase a wide range of AI services with AGIX, the platform’s original token. The current price of AGIX is approximately $0.33.
It should be mentioned that the founder, Ben Goertzel, used to be the chief scientist of Hanson Robotics and has led his team to introduce the world-famous artificial intelligence robot “Sophia”. He is a very experienced person and is known as the “Father of Artificial General Intelligence”.
EpiK Protocol
EpiK Protocol is the world’s first decentralized storage protocol for AI data, with the mission of “opening up the cognition of AI and promoting comprehensive intelligence”. It has a vision of “four pieces”: incentive model, governance model, storage system, and annotation system.
Through its four major plans, EpiK Protocol organizes global users to work together to sort out all fields of knowledge into a knowledge graph, which is stored permanently in a distributed manner. It provides a constant source of high-quality data for existing AI language models, enables data sharing among traditional data islands, and realizes general intelligence in a shared approach for closed and fragmented AI.
At the same time, data annotation is the basis of data, and data is the source of AI, a critical infrastructure for the entire metaverse. EpiK Protocol’s effort will also benefit the development of the metaverse.
The metaverse has three core layers — data layer, interaction layer, and technology layer. Among them, the data layer (people, objects, environment) and the technology layer (5G/AI/IoT/Cloud/blockchain, etc.) are highly dependent on the underlying valid data and need to be co-adapted for the contents and assets of the interaction layer.
For example, the current problem of asset determination in the metaverse is being solved by NFT. In the long run, how to determine the right needs to be formulated rules, and to be left to decentralized AI systems, which relies on, behind the scenes, a large amount of valid AI data.
With rich and effective data support, the previously mentioned AI instances similar to the ‘Squid Game’ can also give birth to more possibilities and enhance the immersive experience of users substantially.
EpiK Protocol mainnet was officially launched on August 15 this year. Since its operation for more than 2 months, the mainnet environment has been continuously stable and the EpiK Protocol ecology has been improving. The token EPK has witnessed a surge prior to the launch, hitting a new high of $2.16, an increase of over 12 times compared to the historical price low.
As of recent events, Ben Goertzel, the father of artificial general intelligence, has become the chief advisor of EpiK Protocol. The two parties will next initiate a collaboration on medical AI data, annotating medical AI data for Grace, a second-generation robot developed by Ben’s team (a general-purpose medical robot).
Meanwhile, the campaign for the EpiK Protocol domain experts is in full swing, with the first round of experts, including the Executive Director of Europe’s largest bank BNP Paribas, entering the unveiling period. More information will be announced soon.
Due to these positive news, EPK, which had a large price retreat, ushered in over 30% increase on October 21, with the unit price rising over $0.66. EpiK Protocol’s development is once again receiving attention from the market.
Ocean Protocol
Ocean Protocol was founded in 2017. It allows any individual and business with a dataset, to tokenize their data and monetize it on the Ocean marketplace. The current CEO is Trent McConaghy, an experienced engineer and artificial intelligence expert. The token Ocean is currently about $0.93 and has a market cap rank of 127.
Overall, the application of AI combined with blockchain technology in the real world is a slow development process. With a high starting point and a slow effect, it still needs more broadly promoted cases of use and a public willing to accept new experiences. When it comes out of the nascent period, the era of comprehensive general intelligence will gradually come to reality.
