Blockchain Starting To Feel Its Way into the Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem

Blockchain is a technology that everybody seems to think will revolutionize the global economy. If nothing else, the cryptocurrency boom has produced a flood of VC money that's trying to cash in on every potential application for this distributed hyperledger technology. It's no surprise that the artificial intelligence (AI) community is also trying to board the blockchain train. Clearly, none of these is a mature, built-out, widely adopted AI backbone, and many are highly speculative. To the extent that any of these initiatives gains a foothold in production AI environments, it will probably be to support enterprises' own heterogeneous modeling, training, and deployment pipelines for machine learning and deep learning.