Dbrain - Open Blockchain to Collectively Build AI Apps

Dbrain is an open blockchain platform that links crowd workers and data scientists enabling them to transform raw data into real-world AI solutions. Crowdworkers do simple tasks of data labeling and validation and are paid instantly in cryptocurrency for their work. Data scientists use the resulting datasets to train Neural Networks (NN) and build AI apps. Businesses use existing AI solutions or specify new ones to serve their particular needs. Dbrain automates AI production and data workflow by providing efficient tools to all parties, including a web application, a Telegram bot, and a mobile app.

Blockchain technology helps us meet many of AI’s current challenges. Using the blockchain, we can confidently manage high-quality data labeling, security concerns, intellectual property rights, and international micropayments. Using existing commercial computation infrastructure allows us to build an affordable, scalable toolkit for developing and deploying AI apps.

We use blockchain protocols and an in-house cryptocurrency to power the AI production cycle. The SPOCK protocol validates data label quality, ensuring the most accurate datasets possible. The PICARD protocol ensures the security of confidential data and automatically manages relations and fair revenue distribution between stakeholders. Dbraincoin (DBR) is an ERC-20 cryptocurrency to exchange for work, datasets, and AI app usage.

Anyone with a connected device can join Dbrain and get a role in building Industry 4.0. Our platform connects exploding demand for hand-labeled AI data with the abundant supply of global crowd workers. In particular, we reach 2 billion unbanked people in low-wage countries, offering them cryptocurrency income in exchange for data labeling and validation. Integrating this global workforce into its platform, Dbrain provides a secure, unified infrastructure to supercharge businesses through accessible, high-quality AI products.

Right now, AI is off limits to all but the wealthiest and most powerful operations. Dbrain makes AI affordable to more customers. We make AI buildable by more developers. We make AI profitable for more workers. We democratize AI.

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1 - High-quality datasets

Large, high-quality datasets contribute more than 80% to AI application success, making these data even more important for machine learning than algorithms. Datasets are still labeled by hand and require a lot of human effort. Regardless of size, poorly labeled datasets can nullify Neural Network (NN) model function and impede AI progress in general. Leveraging the labor of online crowd workers is the most effective solution for creating large datasets. However, existing data-labeling tools and platforms fail to ensure quality and fail to meet the current demand for AI datasets.

Dbrain guarantees the quality of datasets without any work duplication. To align the incentives for crowd workers, validators, AI developers, and data owners, Dbrain implements the Subjective Proof of Crowdwork Protocol (SPOCK), which validates data quality automatically and guarantees real-time, fair, transparent billing to workers and data owners.

2 - Security and trust

Sharing sensitive data with third parties, and even in-house developers poses certain security risks. AI developers can replicate third-party software within a very short time when given access to someone else’s data. Labeled data, rather than software, are the defensible barrier for many businesses. Data owners lose revenue when datasets are leaked to third parties.

Dbrain protects data owners’ interests and prevents leaks at all stages of AI app development. No matter who uploads data on the platform, the Protocol for Indirect Controlled Access to Repository Data (PICARD) protects datasets and AI apps hosted on the platform. It also allows data scientists to train AI models using datasets without downloading them, and to sell AI solutions to business clients later on. The protocol guarantees security and trust in the Dbrain community with regards to data access control and reward distribution.

3 - Abundant crowd work supply

In the 10 largest developing countries, the total number of internet users is close to 2 billion; with nearly 50% technology penetration, the online population is growing rapidly. The number of internet users in these countries is greater than in all other countries combined. At the same time, the World Bank estimates that there are around 2 billion unbanked people in the world. Clearly, internet connectivity reaches the developing world much faster than the banking system, and many people connected to the internet are still excluded from the global financial system. Cross-border payments via banks are expensive, slow, and location dependent. Cryptocurrencies can solve this problem by reaching any person connected to the internet.

The supply of online crowd work is abundant globally. The World Bank estimates that in 2013 the minimum total supply of crowd work was $239B, while the market demand in 2016 was $4.8B, or 50 times less than the work supply. Only demand limits the market growth.

Global job automation trends and widespread internet penetration in emerging markets accelerate the transformation of the classic employment model into an online work model, which is divided into small, well-defined tasks, most of which do not require any special expertise. Many people in developing countries are willing and able to perform simple jobs for less than employers from the developed world currently pay to their workers. However, compared to local wages, workers could still earn significantly more by working on crowdsourced tasks online. The only missing link to connect the two parties in this win-win game is an efficient channel for employment, payment, and job validation.

Dbrain is the channel for AI data labeling tasks. We see this situation as a blue ocean opportunity that allows us to build and control a substantial part of that market instead of fighting for a market share. Our platform will satisfy the exploding demand for human-labeled data and human-in-the-loop APIs. We will provide a better income for people who need it most and improve their quality of life while managing to reduce data labeling costs for our customers.

4 - Last-mile infrastructure

Even the most sophisticated AI platform is useless without access to end users. To use AI solutions in the real world, businesses need to find AI developers, the scarcest resource on the market. Developers need access to scalable and affordable AI computation infrastructure to train and deploy their AI Apps. They also need access to raw data and crowd workers for data labeling and model output validation. Labelers need simple, accessible interfaces, and micropayment channels to be paid for their work.

An efficient infrastructure for AI development lowers barriers for all stakeholders. Labelers and businesses benefit the most. Telegram messenger solves the problem of access for labelers. Labeling tasks vary by level of difficulty. For simple tasks, we offer the Dbrain Telegram Bot, and literally, anyone with a connected device can use it to label data and earn Dbraincoins (DBR) in return.

The Dbrain platform allows users to deploy and share AI solutions. Anyone can use AI models via convenient on-demand APIs without incurring development and infrastructure costs.

Whitepaper - https://whitepaper.dbrain.io/
Website - https://dbrain.io/
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