The start-ups working toward this goal are applying blockchains in a number of ways. At the most basic level, just as the blockchain allows money to be moved around without any bank or central authority in the middle, artificial intelligence experts are hoping that a blockchain can allow artificial intelligence networks to access large stores of data without any big company in control of the data or the algorithms. Several start-ups are setting up blockchain-based marketplaces, where people can buy and sell data. All the automakers are expected to share data so none of them have a monopoly over it. These sorts of marketplaces are only the outer layer of the blockchain-based systems that are being built to handle artificial intelligence data.

Source: New York Times October 20, 2018 09:00 UTC