Exponent AI Takes Center Stage with Aethir and Kaito at Thailand Blockchain Week 2024

Our Founder CEO, “Pong” Kittikawin Cheecharern was featured on the main stage alongside other leaders in AI and Crypto convergence such as Mark Rydon, CSO of Aethir and Yu Hu, CEO of Kaito

The discussion took place on Saturday 9th Nov. at 2.40pm in a panel session at Thailand Blockchain Week Genesis, entitled “Crypto x AI: Meeting the Demand with Cutting-Edge Infrastructure”

Here are some of the play by plays of the very engaging conversation that took place:

Exponent CEO Pong prefaced the discussion with a bold assertion that AGI is coming within 5 yrs. Aethir's Co-Founder Mark believes we will see lots more innovation surrounding AI than we can anticipate, and that it will occur sooner than we think – within next 3, 6, 9 months; and that decentralization is the key. Kaito CEO Yu Hu cited the need for better UX for humans, but AI doesn’t need UX… Consensus was reached on Pong's point that AI agents will elevate the capabilities of humans that can properly harvest and lead agents - and that disparity may occur between those who can and those who can’t = haves and have nots!

The panel's esteemed moderator, Catherine Thantiserirat, Advisor to Steroids and Senior Research Analyst at The Agnostic Fund, had the following points to summarize from the session:

1. Crypto is entering Post-Complexity Era.

With agents, onboarding to crypto is about to be ridiculously easy. No more frustrating days of complicated wallet registration, figuring out chains and bridges. We cannot yet fully appreciate how this will change the way we build DApps and products in crypto.

2. There is solid a longevity in building AI biz on decentralized stacks.

Once we can get Decentralized AI infrastructure to deliver products reliably to end users (no lags, no funny comments), then building on decentralized stacks – at least for some part – is a no-brainer.

- More stability: many nodes, higher uptime
- Own your model: he money-making brain behind your product. Can you imagine if one day a model that you center your business on became censored?
- Crowdsourcing of Data = Superior Insights + New Service offering = New Business Opportunity. $GRASS is an example of this burgeoning ecosystem.

3 . Crypto is freedom to transfer value, and AI can be about freedom of creating value.

This goes hand-in hand, and there are still a lot of opportunities in Crypto x AI – new consumer-facing products that we haven't seen yet just from the current technology stack that is available.

All in all, a very solid panel and in-depth future-scoping of AI and its symbiotic relationship with crypto.