" keyword analysis shows that ai was the hottest technology in 2017, with blockchain in fourth place. A few months later, in 2018, blockchain strong pushed into first place, and ai became second. " The results of this analysis provided by yuan yong are clearly visible in the data comparison diagram, while in a cloud picture formed by current technical term analysis, the three big words "blockchain" occupy the most prominent position.
" in terms of technical features, the two technologies are very
complementary and complementary." According to yuan, ai is a kind of centralized
research. From AlphaGo in 2016 to today's super computing and deep learning,
including some new AI algorithm patterns, they are actually implemented through
a lot of calculation, which is centralized intelligence.
The counterpart of central intelligence is decentralized distributed
intelligence. With the advent of the Internet, there are distributed intelligent
forms such as human flesh search and crowdsourcing. However, these forms have
not further become more mature social intelligence with the in-depth development
of the Internet, and thus produce more social and economic benefits with greater
influence. In yuan's opinion, this is because human flesh search has no
incentive mechanism, "the search is conducted by means of feelings, curiosity or
other spontaneous organizational mechanism, which is not sustainable".
The technical characteristics of blockchain are distributed and
decentralized, autonomous and automatic, organized and orderly. Yuan yong said
the most important feature of blockchain is "" decentralized autonomy" ", and
its P2P networking, distributed consensus collaboration and contribution-based
economic incentives are the natural modeling of distributed autonomous social
systems themselves. Each node in the blockchain system will act as an autonomous
and autonomous intelligent body in the distributed system.
Yuan Yong shows a marked the timeline of technological change, from left
to right in turn for: inspired intelligence, logical intelligence, computational
intelligence, network intelligence, centralized intelligence, distributed
intelligence, and through the timeline correspond to different stages of smart
technology forms: mainframe, PC, client/server, Internet, cloud computing/super
calculate, chain blocks. In the evolution of computing patterns, although
distributed intelligence is listed in the order of time after centralized
intelligence, he explained that this does not mean that distributed intelligence
will replace ai, but that it will co-exist with ai for a long time, integrate
with each other and develop together.
"The combination of blockchain and ai will generate a lot of sparks and
even a lot of fire, and the biggest spark will herald the re-emergence of
distributed ai," yuan said.