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Blockchain Tethered AI

by Karen Kilroy, Lynn Riley, Deepak Bhatta

February 2023

Intermediate to advanced

304 pages

8h 14m

English

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Preface
Why Does AI Need to Be Tethered?What You Will LearnWhy We Wrote This BookA Note to Future GenerationsSummaryConventions Used in This BookUsing Code ExamplesO’Reilly Online LearningHow to Contact UsAcknowledgements
1. Why Build a Blockchain Truth Machine for AI?
Dissecting AI’s Trust DeficitMachine Learning ConcernsOpaque Box AlgorithmsGenetic AlgorithmsData Quality, Outliers, and Edge CasesSupervised Versus Unsupervised MLReinforcement Learning and Deep LearningProgram SynthesisSuperintelligent AgentsTechnological SingularityAttacks and FailuresModel/Data DriftAdversarial Data AttacksRisk and LiabilityBlockchain as an AI TetherEnterprise BlockchainDistributed, Linked BlocksTrust and TransparencyDefining Your Use CaseAudit TrailLocal Memory BankShared Memory BankFour ControlsCase Study: Oracle AIoT and BlockchainWhat’s Next?
2. Blockchain Controls for AI
Four Blockchain ControlsBlockchain Control 1: Pre-establishing Identity and Workflow Criteria for People and SystemsEstablishing IdentityPredetermining Workflow Among ParticipantsBlockchain Control 2: Distributing Tamper-Evident VerificationUsing Crypto Anchors to Verify Data Sets, Models, and PipelinesUsing Blockchain to Detect Common AI HacksUnderstanding Federated Learning and BlockchainUnderstanding Model MarketplacesBlockchain Control 3: Governing, Instructing, and Inhibiting Intelligent AgentsEstablishing a Governance GroupImplementing On-Chain GovernanceDeveloping Compliant Intelligent AgentsBlockchain Control 4: Showing Authenticity Through User-Viewable ProvenanceDeciding Whether to Trust AISummary
3. User Interfaces
Design ThinkingWeb InterfacesBlockchain Tethered AI User InterfacesBTA User MockupsFunctionalityTraceability and TransparencySmartphone and Tablet AppsEmail and Text NotificationsSpreadsheetsThird-Party SystemsWorking with APIsIntegrated HardwareThird-Party Services and ToolsSystem SecurityAI SecurityDatabase SecurityBlockchain SecurityAdditional SecuritySummary
4. Planning Your BTA
BTA ArchitectureSample ModelAI Factsheet: Traffic Signs Detection ModelHow the Model WorksTethering the ModelSubscribingControlling AccessOrganization UnitsStaffingsUsersAnalyzing the Use CaseParticipantsAssetsTransactionsSmart ContractsAudit TrailSummary
5. Running Your Model
Exercise: Oracle Cloud SetupCreating a Cloud Provider AccountCreating a CompartmentCreating a BucketCreating a Pre-authenticated RequestCreating Oracle GroupsCreating IDCS GroupsMapping Oracle GroupsCreating a PolicyGenerating a Secret KeyExercise: Building and Training a ModelExploring the Model RepositoryInstalling Python and PyTorchStarting the NotebookConfiguring Boto3Running Your NotebookChecking the BucketOptimizing HyperparametersLearning Rate for Training a Neural NetworkNumber of Training Epochs UsedSize of the Training BatchesSize of the Hidden LayersUnderstanding MetricsAccuracyLossPrecisionRecallF1 ScoreSummary
6. Instantiating Your Blockchain
Exercise: Setting Up Hyperledger FabricInstalling Node.js, npm, and NestJSUnderstanding Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 Required NodesInstalling, Configuring, and Launching the BlockchainCreating and Joining ChannelsCreating ChannelsJoining ChannelsConfiguring Anchor PeersUsing ChaincodesUnderstanding Response StructUsing GetTxDateTimeProject (project)Model Version (model-version)Model Review (model-review)Model Artifact (model-artifact)Model Experiment (model-experiment)Setting Up the Blockchain ConnectorCreating Multiple Blockchain ConnectorsSetting Up the Oracle ConnectorConfiguring Your env File with Your OCI VariablesStarting the Oracle ConnectorMore About Integrating Blockchain and the Application LayerBlockchain ConnectorqueryOC User ServiceOC GroupSummary
7. Preparing Your BTA
Exercise: Installing and Launching Your BTAInstalling the BTA BackendUnderstanding Your BTA Backend’s env FileUnderstanding Your environment.ts FileLaunching the BTA FrontendExercise: Creating Users and PermissionsUsing MailCatcherConfiguring the Super AdminCreating a New Subscription Account in Your BTAConfiguring Organization Admin’s NodeConfiguring Organization Admin’s ChannelVerifying the SubscriptionActivating Your Organization AdminConfiguring Access for Your AI TeamSummary
8. Using Your BTA
Exercise: Recording Critical AI Touchpoints to BlockchainAdding a New ProjectAdding a New VersionUnderstanding How Training and Testing Data Use BlockchainUnderstanding How Models and Algorithms Use BlockchainUnderstanding How Inputs and Outputs Use BlockchainUnderstanding How Performance Metrics Use BlockchainUnderstanding How New Model Versions Use BlockchainUnderstanding How the Uploads WorkReviewing and Approving the ModelAdding AI’s Purpose and Intended DomainExercise: Auditing Your BTATracking Your Model’s Training and Test Data SetsTracing Your Inputs and OutputsVerifying Performance MetricsTracing Identity of People and AI SystemsTracking and Tracing Model DevelopmentIdentifying TamperingReversing Your Blockchain Tethered ModelChecking the Training Data SetsChecking the AlgorithmsRetraining the ModelSummary
Index

About the Authors

Overview

Remove your doubts about AI and explore how this technology can be future-proofed using blockchain's smart contracts and tamper-evident ledgers. With this practical book, system architects, software engineers, and systems solution specialists will learn how enterprise blockchain provides permanent provenance of AI, removes the mystery, and allows you to validate AI before it's ever used.

Authors Karen Kilroy, Lynn Riley, and Deepak Bhatta explain that AI's ability to change itself through program synthesis could take the technology beyond human control. With this book, you'll learn an efficient way to solve this problem by building simple blockchain controls for verifying, tracking, tracing, auditing, and even reversing AI. Blockchain tethered AI interweaves the MLOps process with blockchain so that an MLOps system requires blockchain to function, which in turn tethers AI. This guide shows you how.

You will:

Learn how to create and power AI marketplaces with blockchain
Understand why and how to implement on-chain AI governance
Control AI by learning methods to tether it to blockchain networks
Use blockchain crypto anchors to detect common AI hacks
Learn methods for reversing tethered AI

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