Can Blockchain Help ML and AI?

It can be difficult not to get caught up in the hype surrounding blockchain and cryptocurrencies, such as the notoriously volatile Bitcoin. "They will completely revolutionize the world!" (or so we're told). Such lofty claims usually turn out to be wrong, but could the combination of blockchain and machine learning/artificial intelligence actually generate real value for real people? Shahin Khan, CxO for the Silicon Valley consulting firm OrionX had it right when he compared blockchain to an Ingmar Bergman movie during a session on blockchain at Tabor Communications' recent Advanced Scale Forum (ASF) summit in Austin, Texas. You just don't get it," Khan told the ASF audience last month. "Blockchain is very much like that.