在過去的幾年中，主流人工智能（AI）工具的擴散激起了加密和區塊鏈行業，以探索大型技術產品的分散替代品。

對於Degens來說，這似乎是一種更複雜的猜測形式，但Theta認為這是解決AI的一些問題，只有加密貨幣可以解決。

The synergy between mainstream artificial intelligence (AI) tools and crypto is built on addressing the risk of centralized ownership and access to data that powers AI. The theory goes that decentralization can mitigate against the entire AI economy being powered by the data owned by a few tech behemoths like Alphabet (GOOG), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), Alibaba (9988) and Tencent (0700).

主流人工智能（AI）工具與加密貨幣之間的協同作用是在解決集中所有權的風險和訪問AI支持數據的風險上。理論認為，權力下放可以減輕由諸如Alphabet（GOOG），Amazon（AMZN），Microsoft（MSFT），Alibaba（9988）（9988）和Tencent（0700）等一些技術巨頭擁有的數據提供支持的整個AI經濟。

It is unclear as yet if this will prove to be a significant problem at all, much less whether the crypto industry will be able to solve it. What is clear, however, is that crypto venture capitalists (VCs) are willing to spend millions of dollars finding out.

目前尚不清楚這是否會被證明是一個重大問題，更不用說加密行業能夠解決它。但是，很明顯的是，加密風險資本家（VC）願意花費數百萬美元尋找。

Decentralized AI has thus far attracted $917 million in VC and private equity money, according to startup deal platform Tracxn.

據Startup Deal Platform Tracxn稱，到目前為止，AI分散的AI吸引了9.17億美元的VC和私募股權。

The question remains whether the trend of investing in blockchain-based AI is still built on hype or has now transcended to become the real deal.

問題是，是否仍在炒作上進行投資的趨勢是否仍在炒作上，或者現在已經超越了真正的交易。

Blockchain investment company Theta Capital described AI x crypto as “the inevitable backbone of AI,” in a recent “Satellite View” report, which collected insights and outlooks from some of the sector's most prominent investors.

區塊鏈投資公司Theta Capital將A​​I X Crypto描述為“ AI的不可避免的骨幹”，這是最近的一份“衛星視圖”報告，該報告從該行業一些最著名的投資者那裡收集了見解和展望。

The firm's analysis focused on the synergy between AI and crypto, an integration that several VCs highlighted throughout the report.

該公司的分析集中在AI和Crypto之間的協同作用，該集成在整個報告中強調了幾個VC。

Several VCs interviewed expressed enthusiasm for the intersection of AI and crypto, which several funds are actively investing in.

受訪的幾家風險投資人對AI和加密貨幣的交集表示了熱情，幾個資金正在積極投資。

One of Hack VC's most prominent portfolio companies is Grass, which encourages users to participate in AI networks by offering up their unused internet bandwidth in return for tokens.

Hack VC最著名的投資組合公司之一是Grass，它通過提供未使用的互聯網帶寬來鼓勵用戶參與AI網絡，以換取令牌。

This is designed as an alternative to large firms installing software code into apps in order to scrape their users' data.

這被設計為大型公司的替代方法，將軟件代碼安裝到應用程序中以刮擦用戶的數據。

"Users unwittingly donate their bandwidth without compensation," Grass founder Andrej Radonjic said in Theta's report.

Grass創始人Andrej Radonjic在Theta的報告中說：“用戶不知不覺地捐贈了帶寬。”

"Grass provides an alternative [by] forming a massive opt-in, peer-to-peer network able to produce high-quality data at the scale of Google and Microsoft."

“草通過形成大量的選擇加入，點對點網絡，可以在Google和Microsoft的規模上產生高質量的數據來提供替代方案。”

The dreaded AI 'takeover'

可怕的AI“接管”

Several VCs interviewed expressed pessimism toward the prospect of a broad-based AI-powered intelligence takeover of humanity.

接受采訪的幾家風險投資對基於AI的廣泛智力接管人類的前景表示悲觀。

Some VCs present blockchain as the basis for mitigation. Olaf Carlson-Wee, CEO and founder of Polychain, provided the examples of proof-of-humanity mechanisms to verify that users are human and disincentivizing spam through micropayments or spam.

一些VC將區塊鏈作為緩解的基礎。 PolyChain的首席執行官兼創始人Olaf Carlson-Wee提供了人類證明機制的示例，以驗證用戶是人類的，並且通過微付款或垃圾郵件拒絕垃圾郵件。

"If sending an email costs $0.01, it would destroy the economics of spam while remaining affordable for average users," he said in the report.

他在報告中說：“如果發送電子郵件的價格為0.01美元，它將破壞垃圾郵件的經濟性，同時對普通用戶負擔得起。”

With blockchain possibly providing some of these safeguards, Carlson-Wee believes AI will underpin digital and financial systems, as they could outperform humans in markets. This reality, he claims, would be gladly accepted, as opposed to dreaded as some sort of bleak dystopia.

由於區塊鏈可能提供其中一些保障措施，卡爾森 - 韋（Carlson-Wee）認為，AI將支持數字和金融系統，因為他們在市場上的表現可以超越人類。他聲稱，這一現實將很樂意接受，而不是恐懼作為某種荒涼的反烏托邦。

"Over time, AI systems will evolve into long-term capital allocators, predicting trends and opportunities years into the future, [which] humans will entrust their funds to, because of the superior ability to make data-driven decisions," Carlson-Wee said.

卡爾森·韋（Carlson-Wee）說：“隨著時間的流逝，AI系統將演變為長期資本分配者，預測未來幾年的趨勢和機會，[人類]將其資金委託給他們的資金，這是由於做出數據驅動決定的卓越能力。”

"The AI takeover won't be a war we lose - it will be a suggestion we agree to," he concluded.

他總結說：“ AI接管不會是我們輸掉的戰爭 - 這將是我們同意的建議。”