In the midst of the Initial Coin Offering craze of 2017, it seemed as if companies would try to decentralize anything and everything. Then came the inevitable regulation of the space, to some extent, and things seem to have died down considerably.
Even so, certain blockchain firms have still retained their powerful optimism in terms of how the Blockchain will one day affect the world. While Kambria is not exactly only a blockchain firm, it does employ the blockchain, together with AI systems and Machine Learning algorithms, to run it’s main product. Because of this unique amalgamation, their vision as well as the latest developments surrounding their platform are worth mentioning.
In an overarching sense, Kambria aims to be the go-to location for the open-sourced development of all AI projects. Achieving such a market position, however, is no easy feat.
Since they want to create a decentralized platform, on which many AI teams work together to push the industry forward with different kinds of projects and research, there will have to be some sort of incentive in place for these teams to share what is traditionally confidential information.
What’s to stop one team from beating another to the punch with the same project and going to market first, claiming that it belongs to them? In other words, what sort of governance will be in place to discourage bad actors from taking control of the platform? On one level, it seems that the platform has deliberately been structured so that certain principles in Game Theory are put into place to discourage such behavior, though this is hard to test since it is not truly live yet.
One such principle that was mentioned by Kambria’s CEO in a podcast interview is what is called the Nash Equilibrium. In general terms, what this idea boils down to is that the ideal state of a game or business situation is when there is no incentive to skirt away from the desired state. In the case of Kambria’s planned platform, this appears to mean that the CEO believes the team has eliminated any incentive that might have existed for bad actors to deviate from the platform’s desired code of ethics.
As with the ideas mentioned above, is is hard to tell whether or not this is true, since the platform is still not truly live. Because of these inherent uncertainties surrounding Kambria’s future product, we can circle back, instead, to what is known.
According to an interview that was done last year with the ICO 101 podcast, Kambria aims to be the go-to, decentralized platform where people who have a robotics related need can go and connect with AI development teams as well as producers like Omni Labs. Though the network’s growth depends directly on how many development teams as well as customers it can attract, it would never even get a chance to grow at all if Omni Labs did not exist.
In a basic sense, Omni Labs is a robot producer that was created by Kambria’s founding team which uses 3D printers to make its’ products swiftly and efficiently. Because of this, Omni stands as Kambria’s only production center at this time though eventually, they hope to attract other, similar producers in order to keep up with the demand from individuals or businesses with a robotics need.
At this point, you might be wondering how the block kchain factors into all of this. To incentivize developers to join the platform and collaborate together to help it and the projects on it grow, Kambria has issued a proprietary cryptocurrency which we can call “KAT coin.”
KAT coin may be likened to Bounty0x’s BNTY coin in that will serve as the anchor for the platform’s use case as a database of bounties for the AI industry. With that in mind, our next post on Kambria will expand upon how KAT coin ties into Kambria’s long-term vision to democratize AI development. Until then, check out some of the resources below for yourself to learn more about why Kambria already stands as the Bounty0x of the industry.
