Generative AI Blockchains are Coming, And They Will Blow Your Mind

I am writing this to extend my thinking on the topic of how Generative AI represents a massive disruption to both compression and encryption.

In this article, I will outline a design for a Generative AI Blockchain. I believe this new model of blockchains represents only one potential direction, but I see massive implications for generative AI in the blockchain space. Lets begin.

Generative AI and Blockchains

In the previous era of blockchains, the most significant advancement after the core innovation of the blockchain and proof-of-work algorithms was the addition of smart contracts and virtual machines which enabled decentralized storage and compute networks.

After doing some research and thinking, I believe we are on the verge of another massive breakthrough: Using Generative AI Models to replace traditional means of cryptographic puzzle creation and solution will enable new forms of blockchains.

I also believe that associating Generative AI Models with particular blockchains may ultimately supplement or even replace the concept of virtual machines as the core execution environment of choice for particular chains.

An Example Generative AI Blockchain Design

To tell this story, imagine the following new blockchain design:

• A very complex AI model is created with 1 billion parameters
• This blockchain is “attached” to a host chain in the same way that Ethereum Virtual Machine is associated with the Etheruem blockchain
• The Generative AI model is fed the first sentence from the Bible and asked to render it as an artwork
• That Artwork is stored as an NFT and becomes the next “Block” on the blockchain
• Next, the second sentence from the Bible is used to generate the next artwork
• This next artwork is stored in the next block
• And so on

Continue this “Artwork Blockchain” using the Generative AI model as the “Encryption” method and soon, you create a novel blockchain which is “Encrypted” in every sense of the word by a form of “Proof of Work” Generative AI Model.

This “Blockchain” would meet all the standards of a blockchain in that it is very challenging to reproduce, and if you lack access to the model used to create it, it might be next to impossible to replicate this chain.

That is the simplest example I can think of to illustrate the direction when you begin replacing or supplementing virtual machines with Generative AI models.

Generative AI Models: Move over Virtual Machines

In the same way that the Ethereum Virtual Machine is “Attached” to the Ethereum blockchain and used as it’s execution environment, I see a world where a new class of blockchains come into being where the Virtual Machine is replaced with an associated Generative AI Model.

Rather than writing “Smart Contracts,” we might see blockchains that store generated assets, mint blocks by generating outputs from a sequence of prompts and more.

Or, possibly, Generative AI Models which can be “paid” via smart contracts to create new outputs from user submitted prompts.

Likewise, I see a world where the Generative AI Model attached to such blockchains might be used to fingerprint the assets which are stored enabling novel forms of copy protection and authenticity verification.

New Types of Blockchains

In coming years, I am expecting to see millions of Generative AI Blockchains, perhaps used to create and timestamp and copywrite novel artworks and movies. We are only getting started.