OriginTrail on AI, real-world adoption and the value of knowledge: The Agenda podcast
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Artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs) and machine learning have infiltrated just about every aspect of our technology-connected lives. Tools like ChatGPT offer an array of helpful utilities, but they also come with a potentially dark side, as ChatGPT and other LLM chatbots are known to occasionally spit out information that is
According to Drev, “By decentralizing AI, what we give users actually is an ability to verify from which source an answer was extracted. Or even if you use a generative AI, you can still check what is the information trail and where does that information come from.”
Bringing the blockchain to the real world
One common critique of the crypto space is that most projects only exist to solve problems created by other projects, and that there is little real-world need for blockchain technology. A core goal of The Agenda is to find and explore those use cases that are impacting, or have the potential to impact, the world outside of the cryptosphere.
OriginTrail, for its part, has partnered with or been supported by several well-known enterprise clients, including the British Standards Institution, Walmart, Google, Oracle and more. When asked how and why everyday people should find value in enterprise adoption and blockchain tools that power information verification, Levak pointed out that different people will find use cases in different things.
“I think it may vary to whom certain things are kind of closer,” he said. “To some, it might be they understand or they connect with pharmaceuticals or medicines or the sustainable medicine field. Others may be more construction, some may be food.”
Spot the @origin_trail logo? This is how the real world adoption looks like in #fmcg as example. Looking forward to chat about mainstream adoption of #web3 in wide spectrum of industries globally at @MessariCrypto #Mainnet2023 together with @Polkadot pioneers pic.twitter.com/JVoFRPT77S
— Žiga Drev (@DrevZiga) August 25, 2023
However, according to Levak, the easiest real-world use case to communicate in today’s climate surrounds AI:
“A lot of people have dabbled with ChatGPT, and mostly two questions arise. A is, ‘Am I going to lose my job?’ And B is, ‘How can I trust this thing?’ And then boom, it’s very easy to kind of extend the importance of these types of technologies to exist, because that is something that anyone can kind of create a story around — their job, around their situation, where that could help or hurt them.”
To hear more from Levak and Drev’s conversation with The Agenda — including the origin of the protocol’s name, the tokenomics of the TRAC utility token and their perspectives on bull market hype vs. longevity — listen to the full episode on Cointelegraph’s Podcasts page, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And don’t forget to check out Cointelegraph’s full lineup of other shows!
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