Original | Odaily Planet Daily
Original author | Nanzhi
In 2023, AI has become the latest technology explosion track and has begun to penetrate and even subvert the production methods of various industries. Recently, Binance Labs announced 12 sixth-season incubation projects, including three AI-based projects:
MyShell, an AI-based Web3 chatbot platform
AI-based Prompt-UGC platform NFPrompt
QnA 3, an AI-based Web3 knowledge sharing and search platform
Based on these three projects, this article will explore the current combination of blockchain and AI.
MyShell
Basic settings
Function: Voice robot creation and communication platform. According to official documents, it includes functions such as "casual chatting, practicing oral English, playing games, and psychological counseling". It includes web version and Telegram version.
Features:
Customize unique voice style and functions: With integrated text-to-speech (TTS) technology, the robot can imitate the voice of anyone speaking with just a few seconds of voice samples
Private Large-Scale Language Model (LLM) (not yet released);
Sustainable crypto-economic incentives to achieve a balance between robot creation and consumption (not yet launched)
Membership system: affects function usage, robot creation, and reward system
Token: $SHEL, total amount is 1 billion, not issued yet
Purpose: ① Upgrade subscription level, ② Paid tasks
Obtain: ① Complete paid tasks, ② Create robots and have users pay for their use
summary
MyShell’s main functions focus on AI, and the application of blockchain technology is limited to token issuance. Although the Web2 points system can also achieve similar effects, although the official has not announced more details, the use of tokens still brings certain advantages:
Free circulation: ERC 20 tokens are different from Web2 points and can be freely traded and priced
Market pricing: With the free pricing feature, the market pricing of the project as a whole can converge quickly
Creator Economy: Helping Creators to Monetize
NFPrompt
Basic settings
Function: Convert text to images (based on Midjourney or Stable Diffusion), generate NFT and trade on NFPrompt’s own trading market.
Features: According to the official documentation: "Prompt artists can fully express their imaginations through convenient tools while providing verifiable ownership of their work."
summary
Text-to-image conversion is an important direction in the AI track, and products that realize this function have reached a certain scale (for example, Binance launched the text-to-image and then NFT product Bicasso at the beginning of this year). The main feature claimed by NFPrompt is "realizing the confirmation of ownership of AI works". "Confirmation of ownership" is a feasible implementation method to answer the question "What other uses does NFT have besides PFP?", but it needs to be based on a premise, that is, the work has a real need for confirmation of ownership.
Let's go back to NFPrompt itself. Its document states that "our goal is to convert ordinary Internet users into decentralized applications." The document contains a lot of introductions and instructions for people with no usage experience (such as the introduction of Gas fees, the transfer of wallet funds), and free Gas during the event to help attract traffic and usage.
Generally speaking, users use images generated by such products for their own use rather than for sale or other commercial purposes. Users do not have a deep foundation in Prompt, and the yield rate may be relatively limited, so there is no widespread demand for "property rights confirmation".
In summary, for NFPrompt, the application of blockchain technology is currently its fundamental competitiveness, but whether it matches market needs remains to be verified.
Question 3
Basic settings
Function: "AI + DYOR = Ultimate Answer to Unlock Web3 Universe", an AI Q&A tool focusing on Web3
Ranking: Vote for popular issues, the top three supporters will receive a large number of points;
News: Get the latest hot issues and answers in the market;
Q&A: Ask questions directly to the AI and get answers.
summary
Such projects face external technological pressure, fierce internal competition, and output homogeneity.
External technical pressure: ChatGPT can now browse the Internet, provide the latest authoritative information with direct source links, and is no longer limited to data before September 2021. The competence in the "Question and Answer" module is expected to be no less than that of existing projects.
Internal competition is fierce: the artificial intelligence-based Web3 search engine Kaito, the Web3 information AI assistant CLAB.AI, and the Web3 AI assistant ChainGPT (including text-to-image and news flash modules) all provide the same functions.
Output homogeneity:
Use the same questions for each product:
Question 1: Why is DWF Labs being squeezed out by other market makers?
QnA 3: The community has doubts about the trading volume of DWF Labs; DWF Labs' large-scale transfers to and from exchanges have raised questions about manipulation;
CLAB.AI: ①DWF Labs has been involved in controversial transactions, including allegations of market manipulation and unauthorized withdrawals; ②DWF Labs has been in fierce competition with other market makers such as GSR; ③The controversies and suspicious activities surrounding DWF Labs have undermined trust among other market makers.
In question 1, CLAB.AI’s answer is slightly more comprehensive, but both mention the transfers in and out of DWF Labs that have had a huge impact on the market.
Question 2: What is “Intent-Centric” as proposed by Paradigm?
QnA 3 ：The Intent-Centric concept proposed by Paradigm is an approach to building an infrastructure layer in blockchain technology…It aims to enable privacy preserving applications and improve the user experience by moving from an imperative to a declarative paradigm. This means that users don’t have to specify every parameter in a transaction….
CLAB: Intent-centricity as proposed by Paradigm is a paradigm shift towards intent-based architecture in blockchain systems. It goes beyond technological advancement to focus on user intent… It is a philosophical change to enhance user experience and engagement….
In question 2, both mentioned that it is an architectural paradigm shift, but QnA 3 has a more in-depth and accurate explanation of the problem, while CLAB is relatively less accurate.
In summary, it can be seen that the main purpose of such products is to explain concepts, track hot information, and organize the context of continuous events, which has a certain reference value. In addition, the above are all off-chain data, and the rich on-chain data may be more worthy of AI exploration and tracking.
Summarize
The above three projects demonstrate three blockchain + AI approaches: ① establishing tokens to create an economic system, ② combining blockchain’s unique attributes and functions as a competitive differentiation point, and ③ taking blockchain needs as the service object.
It can be seen that the current main direction is blockchain empowerment, rather than disruptive changes from AI.
In addition, these three projects also show another feature: weakening or hiding blockchain operations. For example, all three projects have set up Web2 login methods and generated escrow wallets, and set up limited-time free gas to import non-circle users. It can be seen that blockchain is the icing on the cake for AI, and the road to mutual transformation between the two still needs to be explored.
