In the recent years Artificial Intelligence has achieved several feats of technological advancements, but there is one which still remains unconquered and that is passing the Turing Test. The theory behind the test is very simple, it involves an interrogator asking questions to a human and to a machine while they are in separate locations, and receiving the answers in written format. If the interrogator fails to differentiate between the human being and the machine, the Artificial Intelligence has cleared the test.
Developers of the first program have been offered a prize of one hundred thousand US dollars, for the past twelve years, to come up with the technology to conquer this feat once and for all. However there have not been any breakthroughs yet.
Recently a startup has taken up the challenge of building an Artificial Intelligence that can execute tasks that previous machines failed to perform. The new things is that the startup is using the blockchain technology to provide incentives to the people helping the startup in developing the Artificial Intelligence.
According to the CEN, the present Artificial Intelligence offerings can be unreliable due to the fact that they have possibilities of making basic errors when coming across information that is outside the domain of their training set. This is one of the key reasons AIs have struggled to perform in the Turing Test, as most of the time they gave answers that lacked any relevance to the questions that were put forth.
The startup is incorporating a newer approach that involves switching questions that an AI fails to answer to a human being in real time, a coherent mixture of machine and human capabilities. The information gained through the approach is then incorporated into the AI’s knowledgebase, assisting it to learn what it has to do in the future.
The facility of Tokenization is used to log the answers given by the humans intervening, “minders”, and as a reward they are given ERC-721 tokens for their efforts. The ERC-721 is a non-fungible token that has gained a lot of popularity over the recent years due to their being unique and non-divisible. The minders also have chances of getting incentives if the knowledge they provide is ever used again in the future.
CEN has begun a campaign to recruit more minders that can better contribute to the AI venture, and has also initiated a test version of a chatbot where various members of the public can put the technology to the test and contribute to the improvements by replying with “+” when they like an answer or with a “-“ if they don’t like the answer.
The startup working on the AI project soundly believes that AI will have a fundamental role in the technological advancements of the 21st century, however it states that several machines are being built wrong and hence lack human understanding. It is also interested in ensuring that the people contributing to the project are rewarded for their knowledge, in times where bigger corporations often single handedly acquire all the profits. Through this platform individuals and businesses, would greatly benefit, who are seeking expert information to pay for increased insight from a human using tokens.
The startup, CEN, also stated that its founding team had made multiple significant technological accomplishments which included the invention of the touch screen and delivering the world’s first mobile VoIP call. They are showing the same enthusiasm in achieving similar success in the Artificial Intelligence industry.
A number of pre-production systems have been developed by the company, which are focused on revealing the full potential of a hybrid artificial and human intelligence system. CEN is also aiming to scale the platforms further and ensure that the humans who want to make a contribution can do so through an interface that’s suitable for non-programmers. Through A “freemium” model registered users will be enabled to access crowd funded data without any charges, and further products or services would be available on demand through purchases.
CEN is presently organizing a crowd funding campaign, and the network is scheduled for release during the spring of next year, 2019. The startup will also be attending BlockShow’s Asia Blockchain Week, which will take place in Singapore, in order to give the participants a learning opportunity on what CEN is working on.
