PolkaBotAI - decentralizing AI with OriginTrail and Polkadot
April 29 2024 - 1:00PM
The explosive rise of Artificial Intelligence has sparked the first
stages of a new knowledge revolution, comparable historically with
the invention of the printing press or the world wide web. Its
sudden growth also pointed at some of the threats and shortfalls
such as hallucinations, bias, mishandling of intellectual property
rights and even potential AI model collapses. Both the
opportunities and challenges of this knowledge revolution are
showing the need for convergence between Crypto, Internet and AI in
a Verifiable Internet for AI proposed by OriginTrail. The
Verifiable Internet for AI is effectively addressing AI’s
shortfalls by decentralizing knowledge that AI systems use in their
solutions. One of the pioneering implementations of the approach
is
Polkabot.AI - a Decentralized AI education hub
on Polkadot which will see its full release in the coming months
after receiving support from the Polkadot Treasury.
Spearheading the development of Polkabot.ai is Trace Alliance, a
collaborative hub that builds partnerships for creating and
leveraging trusted knowledge in the age of AI. The solution is
bringing the vision of decentralized AI to reality as it
revolutionizes how anyone can interact and learn about the Polkadot
ecosystem whether they are a novice getting through the first steps
or a seasoned user looking for the latest updates. It achieves that
by allowing a wider Polkadot ecosystem to get involved in creating
a trusted knowledge base that Polkabot’s AI system will use to
construct its responses. Unlike the solutions using solely
generative AI, Polkabot is implementing a novel
decentralized Retrieval Augmented Generation (dRAG) approach
leveraging the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph
(DKG). Instead of Polkabot solely relying on AI to produce
a generated response, it uses AI to construct a response using
trusted inputs from the DKG populated by the wider Polkadot
community. This gives the solution information provenance, respect
for data ownership and gives the user a chance to verify each
source and its issuer used in the final response. The trusted
knowledge Polkabot’s AI systems access will be continuously
expanded through community curation and knowledge publishing
process called knowledge mining.
The Polkabot.ai initiative received backing through
an OpenGov treasury proposal, which was approved on April 23,
2024. As an AI-powered educational platform that tailors learning
to each user, PolkaBot.AI represents a significant leap forward in
how we interact with Polkadot's diverse content - whether within
the ecosystem or in outward communications - enabling users to
access trusted knowledge and get precise responses online.
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