Will Blockchain Empower Artificial Intelligence? YourTechDiet

One of today's prime trends – blockchain technology – has the remarkable potential to empower other mega-trend, artificial intelligence. Regardless of the ongoing Facebook confidentiality scandal, private companies including Facebook, Baidu, Google and Alibaba are continuing to collect and store a surprising amount of consumer data. Increasingly, data analysts are employing AI algorithms and tools to mine these data-sets – known as big data. However, the Internet of Things (IoT) with autonomous cars and Wi-Fi enabled devices will create enormous challenges regarding storage of data. Google's self-driving vehicle generates roughly 1 GB of data per second, how will current systems cope in a world with every autonomous vehicle sending an approximate 2 Petabytes of data to the cloud per annum?