AI & Blockchain: An Introduction

At the kind invitation of Rob May and the Botchain team, I had the opportunity recently to keynote Brains and Chains, an interesting conference in New York exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain. This is both an exciting and challenging topic, and the goal of my talk was to provide a broad introduction to kick things off, and frame the discussion for the rest of the day: discuss why the topic matters in the first place, and highlight the work of some interesting companies in the space. Below is the presentation, with some added commentary when relevant. Scroll to the very bottom for a SlideShare widget, if you'd like to flip through the slides. My firm FirstMark has been active in both AI and crypto/blockchain.