The importance of trust in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to dominate the headlines — whether it’s the challenges of managing intellectual property or the tendency of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to produce errors or “hallucinations.” Only a few days ago we saw Elon Musk enter this field with xAI’s Grok and in an interview with Lex Fridman he highlighted the importance of receiving responses you can trust when interacting with AI products
“…it (LLM) unfortunately hallucinates most when you least want it to hallucinate. When you’re asking the important and difficult questions that’s where it tends to be confidently wrong. So we’re really trying hard to say how do we be as grounded as possible so you can count on the results?”
The truth, however, is an elusive concept, especially if attempted to be captured by a single organization/product. A better approach is through connectivity and transparency achieved by leveraging multiple open source technologies. Turing Award winner Dr. Bob Metcalfe explained this idea, saying,
“… through connectivity, decentralized knowledge graphs, blockchains and AI are converging — and it’s an important convergence, because it is going to help us with one of the biggest problems we have nowadays, which is the truth.”
OriginTrail has been, since inception, committed to fighting one of truth’s greatest arch-nemesis — misinformation. It continues on this mission in the age of AI, where the misinformation problem is growing exponentially. The growing challenges, however, also offer a growing field of opportunities, which are being unlocked with OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) used as foundation for verifiable web.
The key building blocks of the verifiable web have become available with the V6 of the OriginTrail DKG which enabled some of the most notable achievements of the Turing phase which were showcased on the Decentralized Knowledge Graph conference (DKGcon) in early October and which to date produced around two million AI-ready Knowledge Assets.
The Turing phase achievements also showed how the OriginTrail DKG acts as an enabler, rather than a competitor to the AI systems created by Microsoft, Google and xAI. Through the ChatDKG framework initiative we have seen the first version of Microsoft Copilot, integrations with GoogleAI and xAI enablement already being researched as a part of the Metcalfe phase.
Metcalfe phase — growing knowledge by a 100.000x
The Metcalfe phase of the updated roadmap pursues an ambitious goal of creating the world’s largest verifiable web for AI consisting of 100 billion Knowledge Assets, bringing a 100.000x scalability increase. As the name of the phase suggests, it will seek to produce network effects across the OriginTrail DKG and use novel techniques to pursue autonomous DKG growth based on the genesis knowledge foundation being created by organizations and individuals alike. The genesis part of the Metcalfe’s phase also introduces knowledge mining and knowledge signaling capabilities to drive constant growth of the Verifiable Web.
Following the Genesis stage and the transition to an AI-native V8, further capabilities will become available in the Convergence stage. By leveraging the advancements in AI and the DKG, we will unlock autonomous knowledge mining which in turn leads to an autonomous DKG. At that stage, new knowledge gets added to the DKG with very limited human involvement. Services such as AI agents will be performing knowledge inferencing directly on the DKG to find any “blind spots” in the knowledge they can fill as well as search for new knowledge and bring it to the DKG in accordance with knowledge signaling.
First steps into the Metcalfe phase start today
The Metcalfe phase activities are already on the way and today, two important updates become available in their beta versions:
- OriginTrail World — the first version of the platform that will combine all relevant knowledge about OriginTrail technology and how to use it, including integration guidelines with other products on the market.
- ChatDKG on X — the beta version of ChatDKG running on X platform that you can use to prompt and receive responses based on the knowledge that is available in the DKG. The first version is currently ring-fenced on knowledge available in the OriginTrail World platform, and the demo dataset of the chatAnalyst.ai product covering Tesla’s SEC filings and quarterly reports. ChatDKG on X starts by supporting 100 prompts daily and also comes with a possibility to subscribe for the first version of Knowledge Mining — all the details are available directly on the ChatDKG links.
Go ahead, tweet a question and tag @ChatDKG on X to test it out.
About OriginTrail
OriginTrail is an ecosystem dedicated to making the global economy work sustainably by enabling a universe of AI-ready Knowledge Assets, allowing anyone to take part in trusted knowledge sharing. It leverages the open source Decentralized Knowledge Graph that connects physical and digital worlds in a single connected reality driving transparency and trust. Advanced knowledge graph technology currently powers trillion-dollar companies like Google and Facebook.
By reshaping it for Web3, the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph provides a crucial fabric to link, verify, and value data on both physical and digital assets.
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