This year AI development has been taking engineering schools across the world by storm. On the brink of a new technological revolution, how could this not be the case? We have just unlocked a fundamental technology, and when you unlock a new fundamental technology you get a once in a lifetime opportunity to build new industries from the ground up, or rebuild existing industries.
At Princeton this spring, I co-taught a class with Professor Pramod Viswanath, and got to witness the innovation being pushed forward by these students first hand. Over the course of this class, COS/ECE 473, students worked in small teams to build AI applications for blockchain, and blockchain applications for AI. This included everything from AI agents for writing and testing smart contracts to a decentralized image authentication system for telling what is real and what isn’t. We are looking forward to having some of these projects get implemented on the Sentient platform and perhaps even see some of the research discussed on this forum.
This innovation is a glimmer of the kind of work we want to see Sentient enable. It is our firm belief that an open community owned platform for ownership and composability of AI models can enable an unprecedented era of AI entrepreneurship.
Consider this a call to arms. Your mandate to start tinkering, to start building and to start researching. To inspire research built on top of the Sentient platform we have decided to share some of the research directions, developed through Pramod’s lab at Princeton, that we shared with the students in our class. Some ideas we are excited about are:
• AI agents for smart contract generation and verification
• Smart blockchain wallets for automatic fraud detection
• AI powered blockchain explorers
• On chain (and off chain) models for gas prediction
• AI powered market makers
• Smart DAOs and Data DAOs
• AI powered lowest cost cross-chain path detection
Of course these AI x Blockchain apps are just a sliver of what you can build on Sentient, but I think these apps represent low hanging fruit for an AI platform powered by blockchain.
We look forward to posting more details on some of these research directions and the progress we have seen being made towards them on this forum in the coming days. In the meantime here is a link to a notion site with some of the projects made by students in our class:
