Chapter I

TL;DR: This space is being created to drill down into non-trivial details of Web3 protocols with applications in AI. Depth will be favored over breadth, even though the exploration may wander occasionally. The core target audience is AI & ML practitioners curious about how Web3 impacts the practice of AI (and vice-versa eventually). None of the material on this site is investment advice.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic work of English literature. While a number of interpretations of the work have been offered through the years, the one that most resonates with me is  its interpretation as an allegory for growing up. From the very first page, where Alice sets her eyes upon a Rabbit in a waistcoat, through her one-way journey through the rabbit hole into Wonderland, the book is filled with nonsensical humor that hides fairly deep philosophical concepts.

The symbolism in the book maps quite interestingly on to a curious real world phenomenon happening these days. We find ourselves, as Alice did, being drawn initially to the world of Web3/crypto through our curiosity, going down the rabbit hole on a seemingly one-way journey to a strange land with strange happenings. The journey is filled with strange characters (those of you on crypto-twitter know what I'm talking about), strange customs (What's a seed phrase? Staking? What's that?) and strange goings on (countries and cities adopting BTC as legal tender, politicians railing against it, people flaunting their crypto wealth on the bird app...)

A common difficulty is faced by the AI & ML practitioner as they wander down the rabbit hole: documentation of Web3 protocols, concepts, facts and procedures is often minimal. Protocol websites tend to include the minimum viable amount needed by programmers to use the protocol, and no more. This is of course understandable. Given a choice between documentation and development, developer-heavy teams will always choose the latter. Other educational material veers too much in either extreme direction - too little or too much jargon - with very little intuitive explanation or code snippets to play around with.

This in turn, motivates the core reason for the creation of this space - the intent is to engage in a full, nuanced discussion of the concepts, facts and procedures involved in individual protocols in the space at the intersection of Web3 and AI. Technical documentation (white paper, protocol docs) provided by individual protocols will be explored in full and non-intuitive parts (to yours truly, at any rate) will be the subject of deep-dives.

The core target audience is AI & ML practitioners curious about how Web3 impacts the practice of AI (and vice-versa eventually).

A big inspiration in creating this space is the excellent Machine Learning Mastery website. The site delivers a first-class experience for developers interested in machine learning with a hands-on, code-first approach. This space will address a similar gap in the Web3XAI space broadly speaking: a lack of accessible hands-on content built from the bottom-up, with plain-language explanations, code and visuals wherever necessary.

While the core primitive of Web3 - the token - lies at the intersection of computer science, economics, game theory, finance, investment and popular culture, this site will be purely technical. Any discussion of monetary aspects is purely illustrative. None of the material on this site is or can be investment advice.

That being said, it is time to begin our journey into the world at the intersection of Web3 and AI.