Cortex's goal is to create a truly decentralized AI autonomous system that provides state-of-the-art machine learning models on the blockchain that users can use smart contracts on the cortex blockchain to infer. One of the goals of cortex also includes implementing a machine learning platform that allows users to publish tasks on the platform and submit ai dapps.

Project Highlights

Cortex proposes AI DApps, the concept of artificial intelligence distributed applications. Introducing artificial intelligence into smart contracts makes the following applications possible:

1. Information services: personalized recommendation system, search engine, news writing services.
2. Finance: Credit, intelligent investment consulting.
3. AI assistant: automatic question and answer, industry knowledge map, voice synthesis, face attribute prediction.
4. Simulation environment: autonomous driving, Go and other reinforcement learning applications.

The cerebral cortex allows users to write machine learning programs on the blockchain and submit some interactions that rely on other contracts. This is Cortex's original point, but the white paper does not specify whether the other contracts it refers to smart contracts on ETH or smart contracts on different chains. If it is the latter, it will be difficult to implement. At present, the cross-chain of smart contracts is far from this level.

Architecture:
Data layer: Cortex's blockchain does not store models and data, but hash values ​​for storing models and data. Key-value storage systems are not chained. When enough copies are spread throughout the network, the Cortex blockchain can obtain new models and new data.

Network Layer: Cortex will add an inference instruction to the smart contract, which makes it possible to support the use of the Cortex blockchain model during the interaction.

Consensus layer: Use PoW to further narrow the gap between CPU and GPU acceleration ratio.

Incentive layer: Cortex proposes a collective collaboration incentive mechanism that allows anyone to submit and optimize the model in Cortex, and the contributors of the model can be rewarded.

Contract Layer: Cortex will add an inference instruction to the smart contract, which makes it possible to support the use of the Cortex blockchain model in smart contracts.

Application layer, platform layer: Cortex's goal also includes implementing a machine learning platform that allows users to publish tasks on the platform, submit models, infer by calling smart contracts, and create their own AI DApps (Artificial Intelligence Decentralized Application).

Application Scenarios

Information services, financial services, artificial intelligence assistants, simulated environments, etc.