在过去的几年中，主流人工智能（AI）工具的扩散激起了加密和区块链行业，以探索大型技术产品的分散替代品。

对于Degens来说，这似乎是一种更复杂的猜测形式，但Theta认为这是解决AI的一些问题，只有加密货币可以解决。

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）工具与加密货币之间的协同作用是在解决集中所有权的风险和访问AI支持数据的风险上。理论认为，权力下放可以减轻由诸如Alphabet（GOOG），Amazon（AMZN），Microsoft（MSFT），Alibaba（9988）（9988）和Tencent（0700）等一些技术巨头拥有的数据提供支持的整个AI经济。

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.

目前尚不清楚这是否会被证明是一个重大问题，更不用说加密行业能够解决它。但是，很明显的是，加密风险资本家（VC）愿意花费数百万美元寻找。

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

据Startup Deal Platform Tracxn称，到目前为止，AI分散的AI吸引了9.17亿美元的VC和私募股权。

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.

问题是，是否仍在炒作上进行投资的趋势是否仍在炒作上，或者现在已经超越了真正的交易。

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.

区块链投资公司Theta Capital将A​​I X Crypto描述为“ AI的不可避免的骨干”，这是最近的一份“卫星视图”报告，该报告从该行业一些最著名的投资者那里收集了见解和展望。

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

该公司的分析集中在AI和Crypto之间的协同作用，该集成在整个报告中强调了几个VC。

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

受访的几家风险投资人对AI和加密货币的交集表示了热情，几个资金正在积极投资。

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最著名的投资组合公司之一是Grass，它通过提供未使用的互联网带宽来鼓励用户参与AI网络，以换取令牌。

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

这被设计为大型公司的替代方法，将软件代码安装到应用程序中以刮擦用户的数据。

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

Grass创始人Andrej Radonjic在Theta的报告中说：“用户不知不觉地捐赠了带宽。”

"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."

“草通过形成大量的选择加入，点对点网络，可以在Google和Microsoft的规模上产生高质量的数据来提供替代方案。”

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.

接受采访的几家风险投资对基于AI的广泛智力接管人类的前景表示悲观。

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将区块链作为缓解的基础。 PolyChain的首席执行官兼创始人Olaf Carlson-Wee提供了人类证明机制的示例，以验证用户是人类的，并且通过微付款或垃圾邮件拒绝垃圾邮件。

"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.

他在报告中说：“如果发送电子邮件的价格为0.01美元，它将破坏垃圾邮件的经济性，同时对普通用户负担得起。”

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.

由于区块链可能提供其中一些保障措施，卡尔森 - 韦（Carlson-Wee）认为，AI将支持数字和金融系统，因为他们在市场上的表现可以超越人类。他声称，这一现实将很乐意接受，而不是恐惧作为某种荒凉的反乌托邦。

"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.

卡尔森·韦（Carlson-Wee）说：“随着时间的流逝，AI系统将演变为长期资本分配者，预测未来几年的趋势和机会，[人类]将其资金委托给他们的资金，这是由于做出数据驱动决定的卓越能力。”

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

他总结说：“ AI接管不会是我们输掉的战争 - 这将是我们同意的建议。”