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Stablecoins are the breakout STAR of 2025 ⭐️
Recorded: Aug. 21, 2025 Duration: 0:54:45Space Recording
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Thank you. All right, GM, everybody.
There we go.
I accidentally unmuted myself on the other device.
I accidentally unmuted myself on the other device.
Tim Barnabas, I think I sent you an invite to come up and join us.
Let me know when you're able to click on that.
I know Jeff's running a little late.
I'd like to get started. I'm a little under the weather, but I should be okay.
Jim Barnabas, how you doing?
Yeah, Jim, Jim, I'm doing fine.
And you?
I'm good. I feel like my social media, or at least I'll speak about X specifically, my X algorithm
is so narrow that I'm not really getting a lot of information in terms of like things that I would be interested in, but not regularly like looking at.
And so I don't know.
Like, I feel like I've been disconnected.
I'm not in the know about like what's happening.
The only thing I can say that I can speak on
with any type of knowledge
is I just used Metaamask today for the first time
in over a month
and it looks like they had an update. Looks pretty good.
Yeah, I think the
UI is much better now.
Yeah.
That and I feel
like it's working faster, but that might
be like a bias towards the design being updated and things being a little bit easier to find.
Other than that, I just felt like it worked a little bit faster too.
So that was really cool to see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, you know, transaction fees on ethereum chain is very very high um that's why
i think people kind of like don't want to use metamask and metamask has has been um like an
app that is very very complicated to other people and yeah i'm happy to hear that things are working
out well for them right now but you know they have to make things
better as well yeah i'm also seeing that six hours ago an account called m0 actually don't know who
m0 is let me just become on that it's on X. M0 is the universal platform powering builders of application-specific stablecoins.
Okay.
So stablecoins with singular use cases.
Anyways, M0 just tweeted about six hours ago,
Metamask is launching MUSD, a native digital dollar for MetaMask's wallet
and ecosystem powered by Mzero's
universal stablecoin platform.
Interesting.
So first we had the EVM being so simple to use
that anybody can build their own L1,
you know, basically forking, or not forking, but building
with the Ethereum virtual machine, which is what Ethereum runs on. So it's got that cross
compatibility. Then came accelerating the network through L2s and L3s. And now we're seeing,
L2s and L3s.
And now we're seeing
instead of just
launch, because after that, then we
started seeing use case specific
blockchains. Now
we're seeing use case specific stable
coins. This is actually
really
this is like hot news.
This just rolled out.
Any thoughts?
Yeah, I think Stablecoin is good.
And having it on Metamask, like you said,
it's going to be made for Metamask users.
So having it will be very, very good.
And the use case will be very, very good. And like the use case, I will be important.
You know, last year, excuse me, I'm going to open up a sparkling soda.
Sparkling soda, what do you call it?
Because my allergies are telling me.
But last year, I started to say that if the U.S.,
I don't want to call it legalized,
but had a clear stance on regulation of crypto,
it was going to change the game dramatically.
Especially because, you know,
you can't deny
that a lot of innovation is happening in the US.
And it does, as far as like economic policy,
the US still has a strong influence around the world.
And I did say that if the US kind of clarified its regulation
or kind of like its stance on regulation for crypto,
that there would be a lot more innovation
and it would influence kind of like the world
in terms of like crypto economic policy.
And I mean, some people, I don't know.
I think we all have our own bias
in terms of like where we live.
But, you know, sure, I'm based out of the US.
So I have a bias here in terms of like what I see and what I can react to more quickly.
But some people say it's like, no, the US doesn't really have that type of influence.
When it comes to crypto, it's a global thing.
But I mean, let's be honest, this is huge.
Let's be honest, this is huge.
Companies like Metamask or most companies that operate out of the US,
even if they're not in the US, a lot of customers are here in the US,
they would have never launched a token, even a stablecoin,
which to some could be considered kind of like the most G-rated token
because it doesn't really have much speculative value
beyond just like being one-to-one to a dollar.
This is huge as it pertains to the proliferation of crypto and stablecoins.
There's also another article that was written recently,
and Jeff and i talked about
wanting to invite the authors up here to speak on it but about how stable coins will revolutionize
crypto this year and we're more than halfway through the year and i can't imagine something
more relevant than this where there could be potential like use case specific
stable coins think of like spotify or youtube if they wanted to get into the crypto game
they now can create like a yusd which they can use to reward their creators directly an app like i
think that's obviously kind of like a big, ambitious vision,
but anybody can create their stablecoin now.
Yeah, I think when it comes to this whole crypto stuff,
not even crypto, most of the things that are happening in the world,
the US really has a big influence on what's going on. And when Trump came in,
I think he maybe legalized crypto in some way, even though it has been there for ages,
for some ages. And so many countries, even Nigeria, we legalized crypto 2023 or 2024.
I don't know, but crypto is legal.
Before, it wasn't.
So having U.S. being the forefront,
because people are looking up to U.S.,
so having U.S. legalizing all those stuff,
Bitcoin has hit an all-time high of one
120 something thousand dollars uh which is good but like you said if those corporations don't
big big companies will have their own stable coin and reward users with their stable coin that would
be a game changer because we are going to move from
let's say if you are from nigeria and you want to be like create on facebook you cannot receive
money directly from facebook so you have to use a third party they will register their the address
in us and then the reward will be sent to you. You know, definitely they're going to take their percentage.
But if they are going to move to Web3,
and then they have their own stable coin,
I don't think there will be any barrier like sending money down to any other country
since blockchain is everywhere.
So it will eliminate the middleman,
making things decentralized.
And then, yeah, it's a game changer.
So we just have to wait and see if those big corporations will come on chain and then have their own stablecoin.
Yeah.
Anybody in the audience who wants to come up, free raise your hand let's speak let's talk
on you know crypto economic policy if that's your jam let's talk about what's trending uh do you
have any thoughts on metamask do you have any thoughts on stable coins I know that I wouldn't
say metamask in our comments because usually you say MetaMask and you invite the bots.
Maybe that's not a bad thing.
And if anybody is interested in kind of seeing what's going on here, I'm going to share the link to the space.
So you can go ahead and take a look.
Hopefully that refreshes pretty soon.
There you go.
It's on the Jumbotron here.
And click on that.
That's the announcement from M0 in terms of like MetaMask and MUSD.
Really interesting update.
Pretty game-changing.
We can keep talking about this.
We can move on.
Raise your hand.
Come on up.
Speak or forever hold your peace.
We could also talk about AI.
I actually went to an event last night, and at the event, we were talking about agents,
we were talking about identity, we were talking about reputation, which I thought was pretty kind of relevant to what we do here.
In fact, I think it connects very intentionally,
very clearly to some of the conversations
that we've had about like AntID
and its potential with AI.
If anybody wants to talk about that,
we can shift the conversation as well.
Yeah, I think we we have few people that are interested in ai here so if they can come up me i'm not that ai kind of guy but i i really love where we are heading to so if anyone in the
audience is interested to talk about yeah like humpty said
we can we can talk about that because last week i think we've dropped a a bombshell on ontology
having their own air marketplace um yeah which is which is something we we just look forward to
to seeing so um if you're interested just come up and then let's have a discussion
yeah i see godly raised their hand come on up godly any thoughts did you want to talk about
uh musd metamask or you want to jump straight into ai chat
I hope you're shy.
i'll be shy
Yeah, Godly, you got the stage.
We're waiting for you to speak. Unmute.
Oh, I didn't know you guys were waiting for me, though.
GM, GM, everyone.
GM host, GM,
Pumpty, GM Barnabas,
and GM to everyone in the listening section.
This is God led the voice of Web3. So, um, yeah, I saw the news, um,
earlier today, the MetaMask news. I, I read the update and I was like, Whoa,
this is, is a big leap. Like it is, it is a big,
leap like it is it is a big it's a big reach actually and um i'm still um taking time to like
assimilate it better and i'm thinking about various ways whereby it's uh the advantages can
can be fully explored you get but they said uh they will be getting on ethereum um later this year
i think because i i gave it a read i would still be doing a little bit of reading because i'll
probably be writing on it i don't know yet but depending on how much i understand it better
but i actually came a little late into the space or probably I came in and I met you guys talking and I think you guys are talking about the bigger, the bigger firms or let's say the bigger enterprises having their own stables. And I also agree with that. It would be like it would be a crazy game changer because just like
Barnabas said, imagine imagine was the code Twitter having their own their own
coin. Imagine Twitter having their own coin.
Imagine Instagram having their own coin and they want to pay creators.
Imagine TikTok, for example, one of the most viral at the moment.
Imagine TikTok having their own coin and they're paying their creators with, let's say, TickCoin.
Let's call it TickCoin, you know, stuff like that.
It's actually be solving a lot of, what was it called, intermediary issue.
Because after all, we're talking about decentralization and we're trying to eliminate too much of a long chain. to eliminate eliminate every um too much of a long
chain we're trying to eliminate one of the long chain so these things will actually help a lot
well i guess we have to wait to find out if it will be happening or not we can only think about
it and hopefully they can put it in place but for the the MetaMask update, it is a big one, actually.
And I'm sure before morning, probably by midnight this time,
I'll give it more reading, find a way to assimilate it better.
And yeah, concerning the AI talks,
I wish Creative Anthosias can request for the mic.
I think she derives pleasure when it comes to AI. I know. I wish she can request for the mic i think she she she derives pleasure when when it comes to ai i know
i wish you can request for the mic so um what about you are hunting or bernabas what do you
guys actually think about like um how do you see how do you see um the the the meta mask
the MetaMask and what was it called, coin being accepted, how do you see it?
and what was it called coin being accepted how do you see it
Yeah, I mean, I'm looking at the announcement, which I've pinned to this conversation,
and it looks like it's going to be, like it already has like a utility,
in terms of like, its kind of intention is to be a way to remunerate
or reward people who are using the platform.
So, you know, one to one to a dollar way to kind of incentivize
and you could say, right?
Like you use MetaMask, you'll get paid.
So, you know, I'm all for kind of this crypto economic way of like creating incentives and rewards.
It's definitely something that is, you know, not uncommon in Web 2, but is not sustainable in Web 2, but could be in Web 3.
And what I mean by that is, you know, when I first started using PayPal, gosh, over a decade ago, when they launched, so maybe 15 years ago, 20 years, who knows, it's been a long time.
I was paid to join the app.
And for anyone that I referred to the app, I got paid some money for it.
I think it was like $10.
So, you know, a fair bit amount of money, like $10 per account.
Like that's insane if you think about it.
I don't know if anybody's doing it that way anymore.
But back in the day, it was really expensive to onboard new users.
And so $10 a user probably was cheap.
But beyond that, there were no incentives for me using PayPal, right?
And like PayPal, there was a lot of competitors that came up,
Venmo being another one, and Zelle eventually.
And there is no incentive for me to use one over the other.
For me, it's more a matter of convenience, right?
Like where do I want my money to end up?
Where are my friends at?
Like that's really kind of what influences my decision
on which of these apps I use.
But, you know, it would be nice if, say, for example, PayPal would tell me, I, we will send you a dollar for every $100 spent.
So basically a $10 cashback reward for using the app.
That's, that's great. I would love that. I'd like toback reward for using the app.
That's great.
I would love that.
I'd like to get paid for using the app.
Unfortunately, that's just not feasible.
And some of it has to do with the way that money flows into the business.
Whereas, on an app like MetaMask, they capture fees for swaps for instance and
if i am using that app for trading metamask it would be great if i got some sort of like reward for those actions the cool thing about that is it could also toggle a switch on across a variety of activities, not just swapping, right? Like if, for example,
I receive money from friends or send money to friends, which I think it's probably the most
likely scenario for these consumer crypto apps, like the base app, for instance,
pay me for my time for using your app, right?
So for every $100 sent to my friends, send me a dollar back,
maybe a thousand, who knows?
But the point being is now because of this new stable coin,
they're able to distribute funds captured through revenue
that they have already on this app back to its users.
And I think that that's really great.
And again, it's only possible because of the way that crypto works and its
fluidity and the velocity of how you can distribute that.
And so, yeah, for me, I personally am very excited.
I'm happy to see it.
It's about time.
I know a lot of people were asking for a MetaMask token.
We never saw it. Is this better, worse, or the same?
I mean, you can't speculate on it, right?
So if you buy a MetaMask token, you're buying it, you're holding it, you're selling it
because there's some speculative value on that token going up.
But with a stablecoin, it doesn't go up. It's locked.
So probably better from a consumer perspective less so from a degen
perspective where you can like bet on you know how far metamask token will go so yeah i'm excited
how about you bernabas what do you think yeah i'm also excited to see metamask having their own
stable coin um be it's like a trader or someone that just wants
holy coin or maybe exchange all of like maybe ethereum or any of the coin to
metamask stablecoin just to hold but the I think my issue with metamask is
their user experience a lot of people I myself, has been complaining about their app when it comes to usability.
So they do tend to make people suffer if you are a user.
So for them to make best use of what they are about to achieve, I think they should make the user experience much better
so that people have that assurance that if i'm coming to
your app if i want to use your platform and it will be easier and then it will not be complicated
like you said it's faster now so um it's it's been longer fused metamask um i think the the last time
i used it was last month when i onboarded my AI service to Singularity Net Marketplace.
But apart from that, I don't really use MetaMask to trade. I'm not a trader to do anything.
So that's, I think, my submission.
Awesome. We have someone new on stage too. I think it's a creativity enthusiast, GM.
Yeah, GM, everyone.
Hope we're all doing good.
Thank you so much for having me.
So I was in a space last week where there was this discussion regarding AI,
and I was so excited when I heard the incorporation of AI into ontology. I am a big fan of AI and also I have my
background in data analysis so I understand the importance of data, I
understand why we should have our control over it, why we shouldn't just
let our privacy be controlled by almost everyone. So when I heard about the incorporation of AI into ontology,
I was very, very happy, even though I've joined ontology not long ago,
but I am still doing my research, getting to know so many things,
and also making an impact in the little way I can. So AI is already here, obviously.
But in Nigeria, where I'm coming from,
and also northern part of Nigeria, is still a struggle.
So people are still finding it hard.
Our people here are finding it so hard to actually accept AI
and make good use of it. So and one thing that we tend to forget is that
we are already using this AI in one way or the other, maybe in facial recognition or
even scanning our documents. So it can be annoyingly or unknowingly, but definitely we are making use
of it. So you know, I think our people here actually find it
quite, should I use the word threatening,
especially to their job because we are more of
traditional people over here and we love things
to be done in a traditional way.
But with people like me that are actually breaking the terms
into the local language,
the people over here are slowly accepting AI and also incorporating it into their own day-to-day activity. So I was happy because when I heard about ontology and AI, I just pictured
I just pictured a system whereby we have AI actually helping us do a lot of detection,
especially when it comes to fraud and also scanning or verifying our documents,
you know, and also people who also have their own control of their own data instead of a central authority,
all those kind of
things.
And also I envision a place whereby we can also have it in the health system, in the
finance system, in education, in health, like the ontology can serve as the...
Ontology can actually allow patients to actually store their medical records securely and share them with only the
people they would like to share it with or even the doctors or the hospitals that they would like
to share it with. We have so many cases here whereby you visit the hospital because we do a
paper system here. You have to get a card first, then you open a file before you even see a consultant
or a doctor. then at the end of
the day maybe you have been going to the hospital for so many days regarding your case then one
blessed day when you just reached there they will tell you that your file is missing and sometimes
a doctor on call cannot even attend to you because they can't find your file or they can't find your
document it can be so frustrating it can
be so annoying and this can be of a harm to even the health of a patient so what if we can actually
have an ai that can analyze this health data while the ontology ensures that it is authentic and it's
owned by the patient it would be fantastic and then in terms of
finance we all know we are of course we are in africa and not just africa i think this is a world
thing we usually have this fraud issue especially when it comes to finance so what's what if like
in we have a lot of um fintech company here in Nigeria,
a lot of them.
So, and this KYC issue is very important,
is very critical.
So I believe with Ontology customers
can actually prove their identity once
and reuse that identity across so many multiple services.
I'll just give an instance
which what happened to me this evening.
I was trying to open an account for my business.
And then I was requested to share my details for my like a proof of identity of who I am.
You know, we call it NIN.
That's national identity number.
And the person on call, or should I say the customer care on call that was attending to me,
she requested for that like over three times. And I was getting so tired because I felt like I was
sharing this same thing over and over again. Like the system is so slow and it's just so redundant
because I'm just repeating the same thing I'm telling you over and over again. So what if we can just have a centralized location, something that can just identify
all these things without necessarily have to be so repetitive? And this can actually reduce
the time frame. It can even reduce cost. And obviously it will protect our privacy.
And then when it comes to education, education is actually very much important, very much critical.
We tend to have issues of someone claiming to attend a certain school, even having the certificate of that school.
But when it comes to verification, there's another story.
So degrees and the certificates can actually let them be issued as a verifiable credential on ontology.
AI can actually quickly authenticate if the person actually showing that certificate is the real owner of it,
or the person actually forge it.
And also people that try to apply for international, you know, scholarship and all of that, they can also have a smoother admission and all of that.
So it's actually a big thing, is a big deal to me if all of this can be rectified, even more than this.
Because in Africa, in Nigeria, we tend to have a lot of gap when it comes to issue of verification.
And believe me, just like Barnabas mentioned that blockchain was just recently accepted in Nigeria.
This is because the government knew that, of course, with things like this, there's going to be transparency, there's going to be accountability and all of that.
So we really want that. Of course, the masses of that so they really want that of course the the
the masses of course we want that but i don't know definitely the government will want it but
you know there's always um um a selfish interest that always come with almost everything so um
to wrap it up i identity is more than just um a card or a number to me. Let it be something that is
accessible. Let it be something that opens door to opportunity and also let there be trust.
And I believe Ontology will be able to actually solve all these issues for us. And I look forward
to the exciting updates that is going to come from the ontology network. So yeah, thank you.
Thank you so much. That's quite comprehensive. Lots to touch on there. I mean, by the way,
thank you so much for sharing also some of the personal anecdotes in terms of like the impact
of this technology in your region. I think that that is like,
that's important to personalize the challenge,
but also the opportunity.
I don't know, we could talk about AI.
It sounds like we touched on that a little bit.
Barnabas, what do you think?
Anything there you wanna unpack a little bit more
that you think we should lean into?
Yeah, I think it would be great if we talk more about the AI
because, you know, things have been happening
and AI does have bias.
That's how it's been trained,
even though I used to train AI myself.
But AI is very important.
It makes life easier in terms of completing tasks.
And like you said, in the northern part of Nigeria,
I'm also from the northern part.
But when it comes to technology, we tend to be far from it.
So we are left behind.
And when you try to explain AI to some people,
even if you simplified it in a way that they will understand,
they will tell you, no, this is just technology.
How can technology do this?
How can technology do that?
So it's something that we are really trying to push it forward
for people to really understand AI.
But, you know, in everything, there should be accountability.
Like you said, there should be accountability.
There should be trust.
So if I'm going to use AI or if we have, like, a marketplace of AIs
and people are going to use it, there should be, like, an identity,
a verifiable identity that if I'm going to do something,
then I'm probably dealing with a human then I'm probably dealing with a human or
I'm probably dealing with a system that will be accountable if something else happens.
So I think it's a good point that she brought in.
Maybe we can explore more on that.
Oops, sorry, I'm muted.
Oops, sorry, I'm muted.
So would you like to kind of touch on
how ontology is perceiving AI in this case then?
Or building, better said.
Yeah, for the building aspect,
people should have identity in the AI space
and get to control what they share.
So if you're using Chargibit, Grog, Cloud AI, or any of the AI models, LLMs,
the information you share with AI is just staggering because you tell AI all your life stories.
is just staggering because you tell AI all your life stories.
And in the near future, I'm not sure
because I'm not 100% sure, but it's my hot view.
You are giving AI access to everything
that is going on in your life.
And so that's something that I think people should look into.
But with identity, right?
When you have identity and it's decentralized, the AI can't, like, you just tend to share what you want the AI to know about you.
But right now, our traditional registration is you use your email, your phone number, and all of that. think is a good thing. So if we incorporate ontology into AI or ontology incorporate AI
into their on-chain, that would be a game changer because you have control over your data and what
you share online. Yeah, you know, I guess I'll share an anecdote just briefly in terms of like a conversation, like I mentioned earlier that I had yesterday with some people that I met at a meetup that was happening in my town.
And the conversation revolved around, you know, AI.
Oh, actually, no, excuse me.
I'm gonna back up a little bit more.
The conversation was around like World or WorldCoin
as it's probably more commonly known.
And it's kind of solution for providing a human identity
to people,
which, you know, if you're not familiar,
World has like an eye scanner, right,
that scans your retina and creates a hash,
which is basically you can't duplicate that because everyone's eyes are very different and unique, right?
It's a fingerprint.
And the way that they communicate it or that I understand it is that the data from which that hash is created,
it is deleted immediately.
So it doesn't really, it isn't stored anywhere.
So that would be for those people who are concerned with privacy, right?
Now, I'm not here to like pass verdict on whether that is good or bad.
What I will say though is the way that it was presented at a meetup that I went last week,
in terms of why World is doing what it does,
is that in a world where AI is increasing in its population,
there's just so many different agents that are being built,
and even agents are building agents now,
that there will be a time where humanity,
or to be recognized as being human, is going to be more important than ever. And so why they are creating these like retina hash IDs
are for you to be able to provide some identifier, unique identifier that prove you are human. Now, my, so yesterday in the
conversation I was having, my challenge to the people who I was talking to wasn't, again, about
world and their methodology. It was about, should humans be the only ones with
a provable identity? And my challenge, and I guess the reasoning to that challenge was,
even agents need some way to prove their identity and the value that they create, right? So this is something we've
talked about in conversations here with Jeff and myself going back over a year now, where we've that AI is trained on data.
And so there's these like data lakes, right?
Or LLMs that are used to train AI.
There are models that are created from this data
so that they are usable, you are usable for various AI applications.
And then there are agents that are basically doing different actions across the web that have been trained by these models and this data. But each of those different touch points, the data, the researchers,
so the humans that are touching this data and the models that are created from that data,
the agents that are out there and the work that they're doing,
all of these things should have some provenance for the simple reason that if there is
some harmful or, you know, just lack, there's no value being created or, you know, really more
like something is happening that shouldn't be happening, there should be a way to recall the data, the models, you know,
the agents. And the only way to really know where or how these agents were trained is to
have an understanding of the entire flow. And so I propose that all AI agents should be identifiable, have an ID.
This could be a DID, which then through the work that they do,
have credentials associated to them through VCs,
which if you're following ontology, you know what this terminology is.
And if there is value created, right? And there is some token,
so let's just use world that is an instance,
they have a coin,
then they should be remunerated for the time
and the value creation.
But equally, if they are not creating any value,
if they are harming the ecosystem,
they should have some way of like
applying kind of some negative reputation, which eventually could lead to, you know,
them being suspended from action because they're actually doing more bad than good.
So anyways, that was my challenge. Again, has nothing to do with orbs
and scans and hashes and privacy, more to do with identity as a whole. And should it be
only something that exists for humanity or should it exist for agents as well?
I don't know if anybody wants to take on that, but that's kind of what that conversation was like.
on that but that's kind of what that conversation was like
yeah i think let me go first maybe others would
chip in as well so um you're right yeah i do need
identify like they need to be identified
because so many things are happening and
yeah i can be used in a good way or in a bad way so they really should have identity
and then that reputation because when ai doesn't do like it was developed or trained
i think they should be there should be consequences for that and because if if you say okay this air
is trained to um helping scanning um like our facial recognition, right, facial recognition, and then it doesn't work or it's using that to exploit people's face or their data, their information they submitted via that platform, then yeah, it's like in the favor of that ai should be should be taken down
and before you do such thing and to take down the ai to identify the ai definitely you need
identity so for me i think i i kind of like um lean towards that identity aspect and yeah
identity aspect.
And yeah.
Well, anybody else?
Yeah, God, I see your hand up.
Yo, I'm back again.
So, I, Zainab mentioned something the other time. I think she was talking about,
no, I think it was Barnabas that mentioned it,
talking about privacy for your data.
So there's one thing I actually got to know
as regards this AI of Athenia.
And I think it will be very much pleasing and if um ontology
can take that into consideration when um um what's it called working on their ai and all so i noticed
ai is not actually decentralized yeah it is a it is a new generation movement but it's not
actually decentralized totally because i read something sometime back i think about a month
or two months back and i i learned that if um if need be probably a court case or a legal case or thereabouts or something that is vital and your data is
needed from the AI you trust very much with everything about your life.
The data can actually be got can actually be was the code generated from the AI. So for example,
now I chat GPT has been my best best friend since I can remember right now.
But I've shared absolutely a lot of things with Chargibiti,
but it has been things I can afford to actually share.
Because ever since I read that, maybe before I read it,
I was nonchalant with it.
But ever since I read that, I've been more withdrawn when it comes to sharing
what's it called, private information with AI, even with the fact that I don't
have a skeleton in my cupboard, I don't have a reason to be scared
of a legal battle that i'm being cautious of but
the fact that i know that it can be used alone already put that uh what's it called that ptsd
in me so i only share things i can afford the public to see with ai and it shouldn't be like that. Yeah, I should be like, yeah, I should be like my encrypted best friend.
Encrypted best friend says that I share things with I share things with AI and I
can I can go to sleep.
I can die that same day and be sure no one's going to see it because that is
what it should be for the end of the day.
It should be like my personal encrypted best friend.
It shouldn't be accessible.
So we have people who have made their career off discussion with AI.
We have people who have documented every little step.
I mean, every baby step of their journey
since the session of AI,
documented with AI,
even the ones that have been way before the AI musical generation.
So it is actually a little disturbing.
It is actually a little disturbing to the day I read it
that it can be used against
you. The data you used,
the data, something you
discussed with AI years
ago that you might have even forgotten
as human that you are, that you discussed
with AI, it can be used against
you if need be. That's actually
crazy. That's actually crazy, to be honest.
So it will it will
be pleasing it will be pleasing if um ontology when building our own ai we can put such into
consideration and um think about how it can be totally decentralized after all why shouldn't it
be ontology network is is uh methodology network is in the web theory world.
And in the web theory world, we all know decentralization
comes first.
So yeah, I don't know if that was part of the discussion
you actually tabled, but I feel it's
quite paramount for me to talk about it.
Are you there on tea?
Yep, I'm here.
Am I wrong?
No, no, you're not wrong.
I've been hearing everything you said.
Okay.
Yeah.
Sorry, go ahead.
No, no, no.
I just wanted to say that's my little bit on AI.
I'm not a guru on AI.
I always leave that for Zainab to do.
I think she's my mentor when it comes to stuff like that.
I don't talk much when it comes to AI, so, but that's just my little sense.
There's a little sense on it.
I mean, at this point, I feel like AI is at a point where it's accessible to most
people, obviously technologically, we need,. Obviously, technologically, we need the internet,
we need devices to be able to connect,
to be able to access these platforms.
But if we have the luxury of those products,
we are able to interact with AI.
We are able to build our own AI, right?
I don't think that building your AI
is within the realm of a lot of people.
There, you know, it does have some technological challenges. You know, data being the most
important one on what are you going to train the data on? What type of data? But I think
there are so many tools that we can use. And I would encourage everyone who's listening to
just explore what's out there. Like more importantly,
what is it that you do on an everyday basis that could use some help either in the, you know,
to be able to learn something new, to be able to do something more quickly,
to improve upon kind of like the way that you do something. I'll give you an example. For me,
kind of like the way that you do something, I'll give you an example. For me, I'm a creator
first. And as a creator, I do research on topics that are trending. To me, I do research on,
you know, concepts that can be developed and produced as miniseries, as, you know, kind of
as miniseries, as, you know, kind of viral, potentially viral campaigns on different platforms
like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. And in addition to that, as someone who creates content as well,
I sometimes need help with, you know, with editing my content, creating short form content from long form
content to transcribe and repurpose through written formats. And for all of this, I have an
agent that is constantly listening. It's transcribing content from like Twitter spaces,
it's transcribing content from YouTube live streams,
and then repurposing that and, you know, drafting newsletters that will go out to my
to my followers. I have for that long form content that I create if it's in video,
platforms that then create short form content that is more accessible and definitely more popular on
platforms like YouTube and Instagram.
Um, and it's constantly reviewing and revising and providing new topics that
I could potentially, uh, create content or live stream on.
So, you know, it's kind of like this, uh, this flywheel for content creators
so that I can know what's happening, create it, edit it, publish it,
and improve over time. And so like that, there are many different tools that I could use.
But, you know, I've kind of created a subset of tools in my stack for creation. But, you know,
for you, no matter what you do, there's probably a tool out there that you could use.
So I would highly encourage just being curious.
Don't stop being curious.
Go out and look and see how you can do things better, how you can do things faster.
That's usually the two ways that you can add a lot of value to your work and to your customer, for example.
You're a contractor, for instance.
Barnabas, go for it. Yeah, so I wanted to add on what Gottlieb said.
There are decentralized AI in the sense that ASI, Artificial Super Intelligence Alliance,
which comprises of three blockchain companies. Well, one of them is Aisha, Fetch.ai, SingularityNet,
and Ocean Protocol.
So they came together to form an alliance,
building a model that is decentralized in such a way
that you get to control your data,
you get to control your AI.
And if we definitely they have their own token,
which is the FET fit and if you want to train the
AI support in any way they can they do incentivized and that training they will give you their token
which is which is good to to reward their users so there are decentralized out there but in terms of usage right in terms of they have not yet
have that world recognition but yeah they are they are really trying to to push to push the
decentralized they are out there for for people to use yeah so that's that's what i i wanted to add
awesome thank you Awesome. Thank you. That's probably I'll be your DM to ask you.
Sorry, I caught you off empty.
Probably I'll be your DM to ask you.
But to be honest, I am actually big when I'm actually big on privacy.
I'm actually big on privacy.
I love it.
I love it so much because i i tend to be very also called i'm vulnerable when it comes to ai
because i i have explored it and i have seen the goodness in it so i i love being vulnerable with
it because why not why not why not why can't i be vulnerable with it so yeah and humpty i just
ah humpty is rugged yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah, so Barnabas,
I'll be your DM to ask for that. And
yeah, Humpty, I just dropped to
your follow. I don't know. Are you back?
I was trying to feed him for you.
Is he back?
I'll speak from the
Antology account because it looks like
I might, yeah, might have dropped here.
But yeah, feel free to DM.
Happy to chat more.
My DMs are always open, Humpty0x on X here.
And for anybody else who's interested in learning more about AI
and what ontology is building,
we still didn't even touch on Ontello.
Oops, I think I'm dropping more information than I need to.
Just keep following.
Jump onto these spaces, and we'll talk more about it.
I think that there's going to be an announcement coming up pretty soon from Ontology about that.
But hey, that's why you come here to these spaces, to get the alpha.
So we shall see you again next week.
We're at the top of the hour.
Thank you, everybody, for joining us.
We'll be back here next week, same time, same channel.
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I appreciate your time
