SINGAPORE
—
Industry
leaders
have
launched
a
non-profit
organization
called
the
Decentralized
AI
Society
(DAIS),
dedicated
to
tackling
the
probability
of
the
monopolization
of
the
artificial
intelligence
(AI)
industry.
The
group
is
headed
by
Michael
Casey,
formerly
CoinDesk’s
chief
content
officer
and
chair
of
Consensus,
the
crypto
media
company’s
annual
conference.
“The
decentralized
AI
society
is
acknowledging
the
fact
that
centralized
platforms
in
the
AI
era
have
a
massive
head
start,”
Casey
told
CoinDesk
in
an
interview
on
the
sidelines
of
the
Token2049
blockchain
conference
in
Singapore
on
Tuesday.
“They
own
all
the
data,
they
own
all
the
compute,
and
I
would
say
they
own
the
regulators.”
The
eight
founding
members
of
DAIS
include
CETI
AI,
Filecoin
Foundation,
Bloq,
Hypercycle,
Morpheus,
Hemi,
Odyssey
and
Lumerin.
According
to
the
new
organization,
DAIS
aims
to
tackle
four
problems:
-
Bringing
capital
to
the
decentralized
AI
world
in
what
has
already
become
an
arms
race
for
resources
like
graphical
processing
units
(GPUs)
and
the
data
centers
that
compute
together. -
Shaping
policy
to
craft
AI
regulations. -
Education
and
promotion
of
decentralized
AI. -
Engineering
to
create
new
algorithms
for
learning
models
in
a
distributed
way.
“What
choice
do
we
have,”
Casey
said,
but
to
fight
for
a
decentralized
form
of
AI,
given
the
power
of
tech
giants
like
OpenAI,
Google,
Microsoft
and
Apple?
“I
never
accept
the
idea
that
this
is
too
difficult,”
he
said.
“Somebody
has
to
resolve
the
challenge.”
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