Intelligent NFT Created Linked to a Machine-Learning Chatbot (decrypt.co) 22
Decrypt reports on the world's first "intelligent NFT" (or iNFT), being auctioned off in June as part of a collection of digital artworks at Sotheby's.
Her name is Alice: The brainchild of artist Ben Gentilli's Robert Alice studio and software developers Alethea AI, Alice is a non-fungible token (NFT), a blockchain-based token that can be used to prove ownership of a digital or physical asset. In this case, the asset in question is a machine-learning bot that uses a generative language model based on the OpenAI GPT-3 engine.
That means she's able to hold (somewhat stilted) conversations about life, the universe and everything... Since Alice "learns" from each audience interaction, drifting further from the original seed text, it becomes a decentralized manifesto. "It's fairly loose, because the audience can take it anywhere," Gentilli says. Alice has strong views on NFTs, as you might expect. "Non-fungible tokens are a way to liberate artists and give them the power of the blockchain," she tells me. But she's a little hazy on the details. Asked how, exactly, that would work, all she can come up with is, "I don't know. I am not an artist..."
So, is there an appetite for NFTs that talk back? Alethea CEO Arif Khan thinks so. "We're actually building a protocol that will allow you to take any NFT, put it into the smart contract infrastructure that we've built, and make it intelligent and interactive," he says. Your Beeple art piece or CryptoPunk could start talking back to you, he suggests. Or you could take your grandparent's diaries and use them as the seed text for a generative language bot. But do you want your CryptoPunk to talk to you? Chatbots already exist, and it's not clear why you'd need that bot to be attached to an NFT.
On the other hand, art can be a way to explore the implications of new technologies, Gentilli argues: "When you think about the whole trajectory of synthetic media, artists have been the people probably most known for experimenting with it at its rawest edge."
Her name is Alice: The brainchild of artist Ben Gentilli's Robert Alice studio and software developers Alethea AI, Alice is a non-fungible token (NFT), a blockchain-based token that can be used to prove ownership of a digital or physical asset. In this case, the asset in question is a machine-learning bot that uses a generative language model based on the OpenAI GPT-3 engine.
That means she's able to hold (somewhat stilted) conversations about life, the universe and everything... Since Alice "learns" from each audience interaction, drifting further from the original seed text, it becomes a decentralized manifesto. "It's fairly loose, because the audience can take it anywhere," Gentilli says. Alice has strong views on NFTs, as you might expect. "Non-fungible tokens are a way to liberate artists and give them the power of the blockchain," she tells me. But she's a little hazy on the details. Asked how, exactly, that would work, all she can come up with is, "I don't know. I am not an artist..."
So, is there an appetite for NFTs that talk back? Alethea CEO Arif Khan thinks so. "We're actually building a protocol that will allow you to take any NFT, put it into the smart contract infrastructure that we've built, and make it intelligent and interactive," he says. Your Beeple art piece or CryptoPunk could start talking back to you, he suggests. Or you could take your grandparent's diaries and use them as the seed text for a generative language bot. But do you want your CryptoPunk to talk to you? Chatbots already exist, and it's not clear why you'd need that bot to be attached to an NFT.
On the other hand, art can be a way to explore the implications of new technologies, Gentilli argues: "When you think about the whole trajectory of synthetic media, artists have been the people probably most known for experimenting with it at its rawest edge."
Sounds like a bunch of fart sniffing (Score:5, Insightful)
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The organization I work for is coming up with an AI that not only NFTs, it also VRs in the cloud. Tether the 5G app with your Cybertruck, and it will automatically crowdsource your socials from your passengers. No attention span? No problem! It will automatically beeple when you become disengaged. You have 3 new notices.
It's going to liberate artists. It's going to revolutionize the economy. It's probably going to start spitting loli fanfics and Lil Uzi Vert lyrics at you after a few months.
Her name is Alic
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Eh, other artist were exploring these ideas via contracts way back when as a type of performance art.
NFTs are just the continuation of the early dot.bomb days of fools and their money, closely resembling Beenz.
I'm more interested in the "artiste" taking what was arguably the promise of the early net (unlimited supply and open access) and essentially creating a walled garden of "ownership".
Just a stark reminder of how much things have changed.
Inevitably ... (Score:2)
NFTs are a social construct. (Score:2)
It's kind of liberating when there's a Slashdot story in which not a single word makes any sense to me. Now I can go back to watching my baseball game in peace.
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there's a Slashdot story in which not a single word makes any sense.
That's all that needs to be said.
Obviously bull (Score:1)
We’re trying to start a gold rush too legitimize this retarded abstraction.
Media attention (Score:5, Insightful)
Please stop publishing stories about NFTs. Their only source of value is attention. Without that, NFTs will shrivel up and die, just as it should.
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Alas, I have not a single modpoint to spend. You deserve them all.
Let me copy it (Score:2)
Whenever I think I have seen the peak of stupidity (Score:3)
... something like this comes along. Unbelievable.
Re:Whenever I think I have seen the peak of stupid (Score:4, Insightful)
There is no peak of stupidity, stupidity levels will just keep on rising forever and ever. HODL!
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Of course there is. Eventually we'll have turned the majority of our civilization's capacity towards stupid shit, then some catastrophe will come along and we'll have to turn our attention back to... never mind.
Um ... what? (Score:2)
I kept looking for something that made sense there, but not finding it.
The token, obviously, is not intelligent. One can debate whether the chatbot is, but the token linked to it has nothing to do with that.
How can a URL be intelligent? (Score:2)
AI Slave (Score:2)
Nfthis (Score:2)
"Why are you sad, Joe?"
"I own an NFT to an online AI, a true learning, online chat bot."
"So? That sounds pretty cool."
"It was, but only three days later it was spouting how Hitler did nothing wrong."
Ty (Score:1)
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