Microsoft has announced the projects it’s selected to demonstrate the latest AI innovations at ChangeNOW Summit – and OriginTrail features prominently. The developer team behind the Decentralized Knowledge Graph for broadening access to artificial intelligence will present at the Paris conference that runs from April 24-26 at the Grand Palais. In a further coup, OriginTrail has revealed that it’s received a fresh investment from umanitek.
Good News Comes in Twos
AI is everywhere now, and thus of course it’s destined to feature prominently at ChangeNOW, the global summit dedicated to addressing sustainability. More than 40,000 delegates are expected to descend on Paris for the three-day event and amongst them will be members of the OriginTrail team, preparing to demo their Decentralized Knowledge Graph and other AI products, having been given the green light by Microsoft.The ability to outline technology to an influential non-web3 audience is a coup for OriginTrail, furnishing it with the ideal stage on which to espouse the benefits that blockchain and AI bring to bear when judiciously combined. OriginTrail is in the trusted knowledge sharing business, supporting discoverability and trust for industries ranging from supply chain to DeSci – themes that it will doubtless be delving into at length during the course of its ChangeNOW product demo. But it’s not the only task keeping its team occupied in the months to come – there’s also a solution to build out from new investor umanitek.
Transparency for Real World Assets
umanitek is in the internet safety business. Specifically, the business of reducing disinformation, AKA fake news. In OriginTrail, it believes it’s found an AI-equipped partner willing to support these goals through smart implementation of technology. According to umanitek chairman Chris Rynning, “We invested in OriginTrail to drive transparency and trust for any real world asset. Now, we have co-founded umanitek to combat harmful content, IP infringements and fake news, using the OriginTrail technology across internet platforms.”
OriginTrail has long been advocating the versatility of its technology, and in umanitek it’s found the perfect opportunity to demonstrate this. Among the pernicious online trends umanitek appears determined to mitigate is deepfakes and untrustworthy content peddled by AI that can make it even harder to separate fact from fiction. The solution to bad AI, it believes, is good AI, which is where OriginTrail comes into the picture.
Knowledge Is Power
Working with the belief that “knowledge shared is power multiplied,” OriginTrail would appear to be a good fit for supporting umanitekt’s goals of fostering a more credible internet where AI’s worst excesses are kept in check. OriginTrail’s solution is built around Knowledge Assets: valuable pieces of information or intellectual property that can be used to benefit an individual or organization. Its technology enables this knowledge to be verified, preventing the need to simply trust on a web awash with mistrust.At ChangeNOW, however, OriginTrail is less likely to be discussing fake news and more likely to be exploring what its tech can do to support sustainable goals, such as making scientific data with trusted sources easier to find while still protecting proprietary value for its owner. When its team takes the stage in late April, a large audience of global leaders and changemakers will be watching keenly.
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