According to Matt Wright, CEO and co-founder of fragmented AI system software Gaia, AI will power the third manifestation of the internet.

” We had read online, we had read-write, we had read-write-own with Web3″, he told Rug Radio’s Farokh Sarmad at the press system’s R HAUS celebration at Art Basel Miami. ” This is now read-write-own and think”.

But who determines what AI thinks is becoming a fraught problem, Wright argued, with electricity rapidly becoming concentrated among “very quick, powerful, centralized Artificial systems” like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, overseen by a” little group of boys in Silicon Valley”.

” You are putting your information into these uses, they’re therefore doing who knows what with it”, Wright said. They “are storing it in certain way that they have power over,” and they “are also controlling how these AI techniques develop over time.”

Gaia’s answer to this bureaucracy risk is to make “living understanding systems” built around AI brokers, Wright said. We have an application execution that essentially allows you to run an agent in a much more compact manner, he explained. We are essentially using open source big speech models and open source designer tools to create your own AI agents and agent inference.

A “living network” of AI agents

That will also lead to the development of a decentralized network where users can use their data to create agentic workflows and functionalities. According to Wright,” We can start to see a living network of agents that are utilizing our knowledge to create applications and eventually make money off of it,” which is quite bizarre.

According to him,” We’re basically enabling agents to put our own knowledge into a platform where we can essentially co-own these systems,” adding that Gaia’s platform will allow users to create AI applications that are “more peer-to-peer than having to go through some third party,” by having OpenAI tell us what to do with our data.

Gaia’s decentralized infrastructure lends itself to integrating blockchain with AI, Wright said, adding that,” We have an infrastructure where we see inference”, When an AI’s large language model and data are combined, he explained, “it comes up with a bunch of zeroes and ones in different buckets—we call those embeddings”.

Those embeddings, he said, are “light enough that we can put it onto a blockchain and make it open to a community”.

Combining AI with blockchain opens up an array of potential applications, Wright said, with” a bunch of different frameworks” where AI can effectively talk to a blockchain. ” You can do anything that a human can do with wallets and with interacting with smart contracts and tokenization”, he explained, adding that AI agents are already, “deploying their own tokens, they’re day trading on-chain”.

Sustainable, decentralized AI

” We keep thinking about AI agents as a tool”, Wright said. Instead, they should be considered as “independent entities”. In just a few years, he argued, “You’re going to have more AI agents than humans on Earth acting on the internet”. Those agents, “don’t need money, they don’t pay rent, they don’t need to eat, they don’t go to the club until three in the morning”.

Without human needs,” their currency might look more like reputation”, Wright said. They might require glib attributions or attestations for performing good deeds. And they want our steadfastness; they want to know that they were a good parents.

That, said Wright, means that decentralized AI could be programmed to be “more sustainable or maintaining of the system than destructive”.

Wright argued that negative portrayals of AI in the media —” It’s going to take over, it’s going to dominate, it’s very sci-fi” —reflect issues with centralized AI. ” That’s just human behavior at scale”, he said, pointing out that “technology is really just a mirror image of humans”.

Decentralized AI agents like Gaia work on a co-ownership model rather than a centralized AI’s extractive model, according to Wright, which enables the creation of tools that centralized AI simply can’t provide. There are really cool Web3 primitives that you can use to access AI, obtain permission, or build community engagement rewards for using those systems, he said. ” You can’t do that in the centralized AI world”.

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