AI and blockchain, explained from the ground up.
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- Artificial intelligenceIntermediate
AI agent
An AI agent is an AI system that does not just answer but independently completes multi-step tasks: researching, operating tools, making decisions, triggering actions.
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AI and blockchain: why together?
AI and blockchain complement each other: AI produces decisions and content, blockchain provides verifiable provenance, programmable money and coordination of distributed computing.
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Artificial intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence refers to programs that learn patterns from data and generate text, images, decisions or predictions from them, instead of following rigidly programmed rules.
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GPU & computing power (compute)
Computing power ("compute") is the raw material of AI; GPUs are the specialised chips that make training and running AI models possible in the first place.
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LLM (large language model)
An LLM is an AI model trained on vast amounts of text that understands and generates language; ChatGPT is the best-known application.
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Training vs. inference
Training is the one-off, extremely compute-intensive learning of an AI model from data; inference is every subsequent use of the finished model, such as an answer in ChatGPT.
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