This article is confusing and contradicting in so many ways. To start with, I was expecting some kind of trustless self-contained system whereby everything can

This article is confusing and contradicting in so many ways. To start with, I was expecting some kind of trustless self-contained system whereby everything can be independently verified and concretely recorded in an autonomous system similar to a blockchain. But instead what OP seems to be describing here is more like a distributed database for storing AI training set data (similar to Storj) where he uses the blockchain more as a metaphor than anything specific. To give you an example, he uses the distributed nature of the blockchain (as it pertains to storing full copies of the chain on multiple nodes) as a model for storing training set data within a distributed system and the benefit he states for this is that since the infrastructure isn't controlled by one person - organizations will be more inclined to share. The author then goes on to describe how the integrity of training set data can be attested to in the form of ... "I believe this data / model to be good at this point" which is about as far away from verifiable as you can get. The problem is, the article is very high level and its filled with meaningless buzz words and double-speak like "DAO" ... which is apparently something that can be applied to a human-based reputation system and a blockchain (hence useless.) There are ways to use artificial intelligence as [part of] the reward mechanism for a blockchain by creating an initial AI to recognize specific types of content and then rewarding miners for finding said content ("datachains" in data mining.) And there are also trustless ways for rewarding people for creating the best general-purpose intelligence for understanding a given type of data. But from the author's account its very hard to see if we're talking about anything concrete here as the article is so technically vague on details. He does go into detail for several of these ideas. But of the ideas stated none of them are discrete, trustless, self-contained systems like a blockchain (or even really need a blockchain) which is a shame because AI, data, and blockchains can actually be unified to create bullet-proof entities (which in my opinion will be much more purpose-specific than any vague Ethereum-type "AI DAO" non-sense.) Edit: The authors treatment of AI DAOs is worth the read.