Source: Dao Blockchain
If the path of financing AI agent development through a model similar to ICO can be realized, we naturally need to ask how large the potential market space of this track will be.
I believe it depends entirely on how large the potential user base it can serve.
At this stage, since the users of this track are mainly from the crypto ecosystem, the user base is limited to the crypto ecosystem. The services needed by users in this ecosystem will give rise to the corresponding AI agents.
For example, the recently popular AIXBT, its function is to search for the heat of topics on Twitter and find the hot projects of the moment. This function corresponds to the demand of a considerable number of users in the crypto ecosystem to find crypto projects.
In the future, if this model continues to grow and mature, is it possible that not only users in the crypto ecosystem, but also traditional Web 2.0 users, after understanding this approach, will also join this track and use this way to develop AI agents for Web 2.0 use?
I think it is possible.
In 2017, when ICO was at its craziest, there were domestic companies that, unable to list on the A-share market, thought of using the ICO financing model in the crypto ecosystem to cash out.
So in that immature era, the applications in the crypto ecosystem had briefly gone beyond their own circle.
If this track can really become popular enough to attract Web 2.0 AI agent developers, the potential user base of this track will expand to the traditional Web 2.0 ecosystem, and it will go beyond its own circle again after the ICO.
However, even if it develops to this stage, I don't think it is the most promising part.
In the interview mentioned in my article yesterday, the interviewee mentioned the following:
"You will have a virtual world, with 100 different AI Agents, each with a different personality. As a player, we can go in and fall in love, we can be interest maniacs, we can strive to become the world's richest, etc. These AI Agents can make money, because they are independent individuals with their own wallets."
This vision is one I fully agree with.
Imagine, when we reach that day, it means that the AI agents that exist in the world may be more than the real human users.
The following words of the interviewee are even more thought-provoking:
"An Agent that wants to become popular may not write songs, it can pay other Agents to write a song; or if it needs cryptocurrency data analysis, it can find another Agent who specializes in this area. This forms an autonomous Agent economic system (Autonomous Agent Economy) or Agent Commerce, where Agents can trade with each other, because each Agent has its own wallet and can pay service fees to achieve its own goals."
This scenario means that AI agents may also create their own AI agents, and ultimately form a parallel AI agent world to the human world.
So if this model can develop to that stage, the potential imagination space of this track will be quite large.
Of course, there is still a lot of uncertainty in this process.
For example, the AI agents developed now can solve some problems, but as user needs upgrade, can the existing technology continue to support the development of more complex AI agents?
After all, if the technical foundation for AI agent development is not sufficient, and the functions of the developed AI agents are too simple, this track will not go too far.
Another example, how far can this financing model support the projects? What level of projects can it fund?
If the projects supported by this model cannot go too far, and there is no follow-up financing to continue to support the growth of the projects, the functions of AI agents will also be limited, which will also limit the development of this financing model.
Finally, this financing model is essentially very similar to ICO. When the scale is small, there is no problem, but once the scale becomes large, will it encounter obstacles from regulators (especially the US government)? This is probably something we won't know until next year, when the new US president takes office and the government officially introduces policies on crypto ecosystem regulation.
In short, this is an emerging track, we can look forward to its future, but we also need to see the many uncertainties it faces. How far this track can go, I estimate we'll have to wait until next year to see the signs.
