Crypto+AIWeb3最后得希望?

币界网Published on 2024-08-16Last updated on 2024-08-16

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Meme市场似乎面临崩盘,市场的焦虑情绪又开始蔓延。原因何在?缺乏新叙事呗,资金们倒是聪明的,统统都跑去蓝筹NFT上面了。

对于新的焦虑,今天在推特上看到几位KOL讨论AI,他们认为Crypto+AI可能是下一个叙事方向,也是未来的希望。作为正在从事相关业务的人,我今天顺便和大家聊聊这个话题。先说两个我自己的经历:

1.去年,ChatGPT引起了广泛关注,随后市场上推出了一款名为《斯坦福小镇》的游戏。在这个虚拟小镇Smallville中,研究人员使用GPT-4驱动了25个AI智能体,这些智能体在小镇上生活、工作、社交,并展现出复杂的行为模式,比如处理突发事件、等待使用公共设施、以及与他人交流等。尽管这项研究当时未开源,但现在已经开放了源码。我和朋友们也在本地部署了这款游戏并接入了GPT。玩了不到五分钟,我发现已经向OpenAI支付了十多块人民币的费用,在反复检查确认之后,我们得出了结论AI的使用成本真的不低。

2.今年,我们在云南的一座水电站内改造了一个AI算力工厂。这里曾是比特币矿场,因种种原因在2018年被弃用。今年我们将其重新改造并启用,使用Meta公司的Llama3,我们的客户是大数据公司,为他们提供算力支持。尽管是自有算力,但使用成本依然不低,现在是夏季丰水期还好说,等10月份后到了枯水期电力供应不足时,我们还得反向找当地国电网协商购买电力,届时成本会更高。

通过以上两个案例,我想告诉大家,AI的使用成本确实很高。当然有朋友会反驳,平时使用ChatGPT聊天,用文生图,图生视频,创作歌曲等AI工具不贵甚至免费,诚然这些业务并不算贵,但也只能限于这些简单的业务,对于复杂业务的成本依然是个大问题,这也是为什么我们去年会在市场上看到大量套壳GPT的所谓AI项目,毕竟贵的他们也开发不起,也不可能有人使用。

Crypto+AI的组合固然有潜力创造出许多创新产品,但目前最大的问题是AI调用成本太高,限制了大规模应用的可能性。对此,我想无论是VC还是项目方自己,心里都应该清楚。

对于AI+Crypto这个赛道,我认为可能要等到下一个周期甚至再往后,才能真正实现规模化落地。在此之前,我们需要解决可控核聚变(低成本电力)和专门针对AI的Asic芯片(高效能低能耗)这两个关键问题。这将是AI+Crypto大规模应用的基础。

文章最后,我发个彩蛋,这里面可能蕴藏着巨大的机会哦。

可控核聚变可能是我们币圈人无法触及的未来,基本上没戏。但在Asic芯片方面,我们倒是有机会看到突破。目前,国内在AI专用Asic芯片研发领域做得最强的,应该是比特大陆。没错,就是那个造矿机的比特大陆,而且他们已经弄了好多年了,是不是有点出乎意料,又有点惊喜?如果真有那么一天,你们可以一人买一点,放到我们的算力工厂这里来托管,就像以前挖大饼一样。

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