The Neural Aesthetic @ ITP-NYU :: 11 Autonomous Artificial Artist
Channel: Gene Kogan
Date: 2018-12-06

The Neural Aesthetic @ ITP-NYU, Fall 2018
Lecture 11 - Autonomous Artificial Artist
4 Dec 2018

5:21 Why AI and decentralization are relevant to each other
18:35 Quick primer on cryptography
27:55 Applications of public key cryptography
31:39 Hash functions and proof-of-work
38:37 Peer-to-peer networks
46:08 Problems with the web today & IPFS project
54:45 How Bitcoin works
1:08:55 Blockchain-secured assets & second-generation applications
1:13:04 Smart contracts & Ethereum
1:16:45 Applications of smart contracts
1:23:42 Decentralized autonomous organizations
1:27:41 Cryptoeconomics
1:28:50 Tokens and ICOs
1:37:09 Continuous organizations and curved bonding
1:49:14 Curation markets
1:56:22 Governance as curation and liquid democracy
1:59:48 Problems with centralized machine learning
2:03:35 Federated learning, homomorphic encryption, and OpenMined
2:15:36 Pros and cons of decentralized machine learning setups
2:18:45 Numerai and Ocean protocol
2:25:56 The idea of an autonomous artist
2:27:27 Crypto-collectibles, ArtDAOs, and other related ideas
2:33:14 Components of an autonomous artificial artist