I think the idea of combining the two really needs to be investigated a lot more, because the largest bottleneck for AI is usually the computational power available to do a huge neural net of many layers. Well guess who has a ton of computational capacity just laying around waiting to do something useful? Yea, it's blockchain and the absurd number of people buying up giant piles of graphics cards and asic miners sitting around 24/7 processing stuff collectively.
If we had the same level of computer power that's backing BTC/ETH running AI it could do really insane things after enough software development is done, and once the processing bottleneck is gone a lot of options open up where people haven't put much thinking into them on premise of "that's not viable yet", just imagine Nvidia's new tesla chip being the hot new mining device and everyone will buy it to sit around processing AI all day. I hope it happens :)
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