🎧 Creating the Data Economy

My conversation with Trent McConaghy

Hi,

Here is my full discussion with AI and blockchain researcher and founder of Ocean Protocol, Trent McConaghy.

We discuss:

• ‘Not your keys, not your bitcoin data’: the role of data economies in the long-term vision of sovereign personal data, and in levelling the playing field around exploiting its value.

• The real-world impact of deep learning and reductions in error – and why we have not yet fully leveraged data’s potential for learning.

• The changing ebb-and-flow of supply and demand in data, and the role of data economies in bridging the disconnect between the data and AI haves and the have-nots: companies with a lot of data, but lacking in deep AI expertise, vs. AI researchers with AI expertise, but little to no data. 

• Ocean Protocol’s three-part model to unlocking value in a data economy: (i) a decentralised substrate for a marketplace and data commons, (ii) data computation, and (iii) leveraging network rewards to incentivise the supply of data.

• Early use cases of successful data exch…