AI's Opaque Box Is Actually a Supply Chain
Karen Kilroy,
O'Reilly,
Jun 20, 2023
I was just talking about this with a colleague here, and it relates directly to some of what I've said about AI and the blockchain, but with a nice twist. The twist (to me, at least) is in the use of the phrase 'supply chain' to describe the mechanism or process through which an AI such as a large language model (LLM) gets its input. This input, at its core, is data. To date, the data used by LLMs to produce such services as chatGPT has been very low quality. But at a certain point, the quality of the input data will matter, which means there will need to be a way of establishing the provenance of that data, which involvs the technologies found in blockchain networks. Calling it a 'supply chain' for AI is a nice way of making the concept more intuitive. This article cites a book co-authored by the author, O'Reilly book I co-authored, Blockchain Tethered AI, describing four blockchain controls for AI: pre-establishing identity and workflow criteria; distributing tamper-evident verification; governing, instructing, and inhibiting intelligent agents; and showing authenticity through user-viewable provenance. That's a nice well-thought out list.
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