Blockchain Supercharged with AI: The Next Revolution?

How Blockchain can Help Artificial IntelligenceArtificial intelligence needs vast amounts of data to learn and make insightful decisions, blockchain becomes useful a novel way of storing data securely.

As mentioned earlier, blockchain often boils down to being a distributed ledger technology, which means it creates a massive database of every transaction on the network.

But unlike traditional data storage solutions like Amazon’s servers, which are centralized, blockchain networks are decentralized.

This means blockchain stores data on a vast network of computers, which constantly verify the information with each other, making the data stored on the network immutable.

In case a hacker gets into one computer and manipulates the data, the abnormality is often picked up by the other computers on the network and the data manipulation made invalid.

   On top of this, the data stored on blockchain is cryptographically secured meaning modifying the data is incredibly difficult.

Blockchain users can also check if the data stored on the network has been tampered with,  by simultaneously cross-checking cryptographic signature of the data across all nodes (computers) on the network.

This makes Blockchain an ideal solution to store highly sensitive data.

The same can’t be said for our current networks and systems, which are often the victims of cyber hacks.

For example, In November last year, the Marriott hotel group revealed the personal data of as much as 500 million of its guests were stolen by hackers.

Thus from this, we can conclude that blockchain can be a critical element in the advancement of AI systems and Big data analytics.

But can AI be useful for blockchain?.How Artificial Intelligence can Help Blockchain  AI systems could profoundly change the way we manage blockchain networks and make them more efficient.

For example, while transferring Bitcoin to another peer on the same network, it often takes days to confirm the transaction.

Ironically, this is inadvertently caused by blockchains decentralized nature, as transactions facilitated on Bitcoin’s network is confirmed by Bitcoin miners, who group these transactions into blocks.

Therefore an unprecedented increase in Bitcoin transactions could delay the confirmation time even further as ‘block’ sizes are limited, meaning transactions which exceed the capacity of a block will get queued for confirmation by Bitcoin miners.

Artificially intelligent systems could help bring down this cumbersome process by reducing the computing power needed to confirm these transactions.

As the Hashing algorithms used to confirm transactions on a blockchain network often uses a ‘brute force’ approach.

An AI system could possibly be trained to improve these algorithms by providing it with the right data.

Top Five Startups in this Niche Space, According to Funds Raised($MM) Neuromation – $72 million Endor- $45 million Blockchain data foundation- $38 million Singularity.

NET- $33 million Neurochain-$25 million These are the top five startups, in terms of funds raised, looking to usher in a new era technology by combining Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technology.

Even though, by itself, funds raised is not a precise way to measure the success of a startup or for that matter the potential of a new market.

It does provide conclusive evidence that investors are confident in the potential of combining these technologies and are willing to pledge top-dollar to some startups in this realm.

  Therefore even though Blockchain technology and Artificially intelligent systems already garner tremendous potential for revolutionizing many industry sectors.

But an amalgamation of both could be advent of a new era of technology, one that will bring growth to various sectors on an unprecedented level.

  About the Author Gregory S.

Mathew.

As an engineer I’m passionate about technology and its use cases in the real world.

Currently working as a Business Analyst at InWara, I’m researching how technology, specifically blockchain, is shaping current capital markets.

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