In the movie "Underworld 2", there is a classic conversation:
Louis Koo: Lao Xu is also a triad. Why can he come up to do business?
You are: We talked with Lao Xu, and he is patriotic.
Louis Koo: I can also talk, I can also be patriotic!
This scene, like the recent blockchain company transformation, gives me the same feeling, as if the group is saying: I can also AI!
Although there have been many brainstorming discussions about the application of blockchain technology, for a long time, the only commercial value that has been opened up seems to be mining and speculation, and many mining machine manufacturers have earned a lot of money. Full.
Recently, blockchain companies have not mined and started to invest in AI, including even the bite continent known as 'mineba'.
In the end what happened?
Blockchain companies collectively staged AI escape
The situation of blockchain companies is the same as the climate in the northern hemisphere today.
However, some companies that have long since shifted their stories to the AI and chip are still in the aura.
For example, the bit mainland bitmain that has just submitted the prospectus has resolutely transformed artificial intelligence in the first half of the year.
In the prospectus, the word 'AI' appears twice as often as the 'blockchain'. Bitcoin believes that its advantage lies not only in mining, but also in the design and R&D capabilities of ASIS chips, which is the AI chip industry. Strong competitors. Recently released a marginal AI chip BM1880, and related servers, AI modules, power bars and other product clusters.
Similar to Bitcoin, there is also the mining industry 'second two' Jia Nan Zhi Zhi, recently announced that it has achieved mass production of the world's first 7nm chip, to prove that blockchain companies can 'turn in the AI chip field' Overtaking'.
In order to distinguish it from the 'classical blockchain', the Ethereum, which is known as the 'blockchain 2.0', also launched the AI project from the good-selling - 'Ether-Chi Lian', even issued a token EAI for it, claiming to pass The combination of blockchain and AI establishes a global distributed artificial intelligence value network, which promotes the development of Ethereum as the next generation AI computing platform.
Overseas blockchain companies are not far behind.
For example, not long ago, Thought Company announced that it broke Amazon, Facebook, Google's AI monopoly, and launched Thought Blockchain to provide artificial intelligence analysis applications. Through big data analysis and artificial intelligence algorithms, any industry or any data stored in the data center. Compiling and filtering, making it possible to use artificial intelligence for small organizations.
There are many similar stories, and these are actually logically self-consistent.
There are a lot of unknown blockchain companies, and they also announced that they want to embrace AI. In the end, it is not only implemented on the website to promote the copy, but also back to the currency.
In the movie, You Changguan told Gu Tianle: Lao Xu is a slapstick, you are just a small leader, want to talk to me, first grab the seat of the 'talker' and say it. The blockchain company wants to have a deep root. The AI giant and the unicorns 'scoring position' are not as easy as they thought.
'The AI that matches your performance is not seen'
Regarding the blockchain company's collective 'touch porcelain', the reaction of AI companies may only be described by a lyrics -
I will miss the performance of your performance, and force a person who loves you to improvise.
The resolutely transforming Bitland, in the prospectus directly against the standard AI chip maker Nvidia, has repeatedly cue to Intel and AMD, in order to demonstrate greater commitment to the computer industry. However, this 'confession ' In addition to the capitalists and individual media for their drums and calls, did not attract many AI giants' response, the scene was very embarrassing.
To be fair, blockchain companies want to be in the top position, but they still have a bit of cards in their hands, such as:
1. Blockchain technology has a natural combination with artificial intelligence. For example, it helps to improve the security and data credibility of artificial intelligence networks, and provides powerful computing power for artificial intelligence, which is beneficial to mutual trust between robots.
2. The mining machine manufacturer has obvious advantages in hardware. It has certain AI chip design, structure, manufacturing capability, and can achieve higher computing efficiency with lower power consumption, helping to reduce the computing cost.
3. Many real-world scenarios require artificial intelligence and blockchains to collaborate. For example, auditing, insurance, medical, etc., before processing data, you need to store and encrypt highly sensitive personal data to prevent tampering. Blockchain is the most ideal solution.
4. The token currency derived from the blockchain can be used as a more flexible reward token to encourage users to exchange access to their anonymous data in order to better train the AI dataset.
In this way, the blockchain company's transformation of AI has unlimited potential for future applications, perhaps more than many new AI unicorns. But why both AI companies and serious technology media have Be cautious?
The reason may be that the blockchain is very close to artificial intelligence, but the blockchain company may not.
I want to tell the story of 'AI',
At least make up these lessons
What can be done, how to do it, obviously is two different things.
At present, it seems that there are very few blockchain companies that have the conditions to transform into AI companies. Most of them have more or less shortcomings:
First of all, the talent echelon. The competition for artificial talents for top talents has already entered a stage of white-hot. Compared with artificial intelligence that requires data to be written and algorithms to train models, the blockchain with smart contracts as the core has been developed in the past. The requirements are obviously much lower, which makes it slightly insufficient in the top talent reserve. Especially in the current situation of the blockchain industry, whether it is the salary level or the stability of the enterprise itself, or the future growth of the profession. In fact, it is not enough to compete with 'orthodox AI companies' for talent.
At the same time, even if there are many joint points, the single hash algorithm of the blockchain and the overall technical system of AI are deeply isolated. The two industries did not have a de facto combination point before. When AI companies began to reflect on their own frequent When brushing the scores of various competition rankings, is it not unreasonable? I am afraid that most blockchain companies have not even sent a paper. On the premise of lack of talent, it is said that the existing blockchain enterprises suddenly smashed. Understand, fully understand the conditions and environment required for AI calculations, and cooperate with your own chip research and development capabilities to surpass Baidu overnight. It is a fantasy.
Secondly, even if it breaks through the technical barriers, efficiency and cost still limit the commercial probability of blockchain AI. The emergence of multiple computing methods such as distributed computing, local computing, etc. means that AI has never been a disregard Technological advances in cost. For different industries and application scenarios, we may choose to sacrifice the speed of computing to the cloud computing with lower cost, or choose the local computing with higher cost than the comprehensive demand. For some traditional enterprises, the software is integrated. Model and computing chip AI all-in-one machine is more in line with their needs. But the blockchain is much simpler. The ASIC chips of mining machine manufacturers often have a single function. Under the huge interest chain of mining, manufacturers will hardly consider how to reduce Energy cost. Based on blockchain data transmission, the cost of verification and storage is also high. Entering the AI market, it will soon be rejected because of the high cost of the application.
Finally, the security risks. Although the blockchain itself is almost impossible to attack, the application level is not necessarily so secure. The Bitland mining machine has exploded the Antbleed backdoor and is subject to a power attack. If the only security advantage cannot be guaranteed, nothing can be done. How should long blockchain companies compete with AI companies?
Therefore, if you want to compete with the AI company, the blockchain company needs more lessons.
The road is long and long, why are you still going forward?
You must ask, since it is impossible to make up for the accumulation of AI companies for many years in the short term, why should blockchain companies rush to transform?
There are three reasons:
1. The overall mining market is down, and the oversupply has caused the mining company to have excess computing power, and spared no effort to provide calculations for the AI;
2. The blockchain supervision is becoming more and more strict, and the bursting of the currency bubble may be in the midst of the eve. AI is the most suitable safe haven for blockchain companies;
3. Listing has become the main appeal of blockchain companies this year, accelerating the process of capitalization, and it is safe to leave as soon as possible, naturally needing new stories.
It is not difficult to find that the 'AI vision' of blockchain companies is not for 'the starry sky and the creed in the heart', but a wave of operations that are helpless and capital ashore.
Some 'blockchain believers' also try to explain the rationality of the transition from the perspective of artificial intelligence, but IMHO, no amount of sweet words, can not cover up the 'inferior streaks' behind the propaganda copy.
And every fresh 'chives' are only concerned with the long-term technical value, but they ignore the short-term engineering difficulty, and the foam stand up to the last moment of the crack.
Gold mines don't often exist, and pits are often there. Blockchain companies that have long been accustomed to quick profits, can really maintain restraint and calm in the face of the next boom?
At present, we have not seen the commercial capabilities and technical beliefs that match the superiors in the transformation of blockchain companies. On the contrary, the top mining machine manufacturers have fled, let the block chain ecological mining, virtual currency hairstyle and circulation The company directly faces the shackles of upstream water, and becomes another victim after the speculative fans. It is inevitable that people are embarrassed.
Blockchain companies want to convince everyone that they really want to 'return their heads' and still need to be more sincere.