The Neural Aesthetic @ ITP-NYU, Fall 2018
Lecture 11: Autonomous artificial artist [12/4/2018]
[Slides]
- Why AI and decentralization are relevant to each other (5:21)
- Quick primer on cryptography (18:35)
- Applications of public key cryptography (27:55)
- Hash functions and proof-of-work (31:39)
- Peer-to-peer networks (38:37)
- Problems with the web today & IPFS project (46:08)
- How Bitcoin works (54:45)
- Blockchain-secured assets & second-generation applications (1:08:55)
- Smart contracts & Ethereum (1:13:04)
- Applications of smart contracts (1:16:45)
- Decentralized autonomous organizations (1:23:42)
- Cryptoeconomics (1:27:41)
- Tokens and ICOs (1:28:50)
- Continuous organizations and curved bonding (1:37:09)
- Curation markets (1:49:14)
- Governance as curation and liquid democracy (1:56:22)
- Problems with centralized machine learning (1:59:48)
- Federated learning, homomorphic encryption, and OpenMined (2:03:35)
- Pros and cons of decentralized machine learning setups (2:15:36)
- Numerai and Ocean protocol (2:18:45)
- The idea of an autonomous artist (2:25:56)
- Crypto-collectibles, ArtDAOs, and other related ideas (2:27:27)
- Components of an autonomous artificial artist (2:33:14)