Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

co founder of @metamask . Making computers behave for us.

They can’t really transact anyway. True interoperability among differently trained or fine-tuned models is… not a thing. You can get them talking in natural language nut not in any deeper latent-space way. And economic transactions can’t happen until clear knowledge transactions make sense, as in models knowing other models know different things. Stuff like zkml is way downstream of these basics.

Meanwhile: LLM agents not transacting.

I think it can both be true that AI has plenty to be excited about that doesn't require thinking about the long tail of payment rail friction, but also that there are real problems they will eventually face that will rediscover many of the things crypto has learned.

Blockchain is nice but it doesn't need crypto to work. Same way AI needs blockchain to regonize if it has been ia generated.