Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are transforming decision-making by enabling better predictions and facilitating improved customer service, effectively decentralizing decision-making within enterprises. Convergent technologies such as blockchain and IoT play significant roles in this transformation, particularly in supply chain management through smart contracts and real-time data access. As AI evolves, it has the potential to interpret vast data sets for enhanced decision-making, although there are current limitations regarding trust in autonomous AI systems.

1. How are artificial intelligence
and machine learning
transforming decision making?

2. Daniel Eyre
Cofounder & CEO at
Blockchange Digital Assets

3. Who am I?
Started at DuPont in
chemicals, industrial
biosciences, materials,
semiconductors.
Joined Anaplan in 2015 to
grow supply chain planning
product line
AI & ML strategy and
partnerships at Anaplan
Cofounded Blockchange
Digital Assets

4. Convergent
Technologies
AI & ML
Robotics
IoT
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency

5. Defining Convergent Technologies
Evolving technologies that must
be present in an ecosystem in
order to enable other
technologies to reach full
potential and utility.

6. What is the role of AI in our
future?
• AI is increasingly pushing decision-making down the totem
pole within the enterprise.
• AI is making better predictions about what will happen,
who it’s relevant to, and what they should do about it.
• AI can facilitate better customer service at scale than any
human
• AI is the composer of the global supply chain orchestra,
with the rest of the convergent technologies the
musicians

7. Terminology

8. Terminology
• Blockchain is an underlying database technology linking a shared
transaction history of any type
• Cryptocurrency is the mechanism for settlement of transactions on a
blockchain
• Smart contracts are segments of code that live on a shared ledger
that can be accessed and leveraged by any network participants with
the correct qualifications
• IoT refers to an ecosystem of connected devices and related services
that work in concert

9. Similarity Learning
• Supervised machine learning technique
• Learns from examples to craft a general function to measure
similarities between objects
• Used for ranking, recommendation systems, visual identity tracking,
face verification & recognition and voice recognition

10. Distributed Data Vending Model

11. Blockchain & Smart Contracts in the
Enterprise

12. Thought Exercise
Imagine this: you wake up on the 4th of July and
take a look at your phone. On the phone, you’ve
received a recommendation to buy grilling food
and mosquito repellant, which is great because
you don’t have any. You buy the suggested goods
and receive them by drone before your afternoon
barbecue.
Which technologies played a role in this
and how far are we from this future?

13. The Likely Answer
AI knows you need BBQ
goods from the event on
your calendar and
suggests a purchase based
on the purchasing patterns
of yours and others
ML & AI can be leveraged to make predictions
using historical data, smart fridge image
recognition (image processing), contextual
graph analysis and much more.

14. The Likely Answer
AI knows you need BBQ
goods from the event on
your calendar and
suggests a purchase based
on the purchasing patterns
of yours and others
An order is created on the
blockchain for two
different vendors, one is a
meat company and the
other outdoor supplies
Using DDV (distributed data vending)
consumer data can be accessed and privately
consumed by relevant parties in parallel

15. The Likely Answer
AI knows you need BBQ
goods from the event on
your calendar and
suggests a purchase based
on the purchasing patterns
of yours and others
An order is created on the
blockchain for two
different vendors, one is a
meat company and the
other outdoor supplies
IoT sensors at inventory
locations for each good
provide verification of
stock to trigger a chain of
smart contracts on the
blockchain

16. The Likely Answer
AI knows you need BBQ
goods from the event on
your calendar and
suggests a purchase based
on the purchasing patterns
of yours and others
An order is created on the
blockchain for two
different vendors, one is a
meat company and the
other outdoor supplies
IoT sensors at inventory
locations for each good
provide verification of
stock to trigger a chain of
smart contracts on the
blockchain
Cryptocurrency issues the
purchase and settles the
payment with the
individual vendors and
fuels the chain of delivery
smart contracts from the
distributor

17. The Likely Answer
AI knows you need BBQ
goods from the event on
your calendar and
suggests a purchase based
on the purchasing patterns
of yours and others
An order is created on the
blockchain for two
different vendors, one is a
meat company and the
other outdoor supplies
IoT sensors at inventory
locations for each good
provide verification of
stock to trigger a chain of
smart contracts on the
blockchain
Cryptocurrency issues the
purchase and settles the
payment with the
individual vendors and
fuels the chain of delivery
smart contracts from the
distributor
Robots which have been
activated by smart
contract pick and pack the
goods for delivery. The
smart contract issues a
cryptocurrency micro
transaction fee to the
robot for the service.

18. The Likely Answer
AI knows you need BBQ
goods from the event on
your calendar and
suggests a purchase based
on the purchasing patterns
of yours and others
An order is created on the
blockchain for two
different vendors, one is a
meat company and the
other outdoor supplies
IoT sensors at inventory
locations for each good
provide verification of
stock to trigger a chain of
smart contracts on the
blockchain
Cryptocurrency issues the
purchase and settles the
payment with the
individual vendors and
fuels the chain of delivery
smart contracts from the
distributor
Robots which have been
activated by smart
contract pick and pack the
goods for delivery. The
smart contract issues a
cryptocurrency micro
transaction fee to the
robot for the service.
A drone picks up your
goods and uses machine
learning-based navigation
to deliver your goods
along the optimal delivery
route. The drone receives
a cryptocurrency micro
fee for the delivery service

19. Why?
Fundamentally, AI is about deriving the
underlying meaning of data, which our
world is producing at unprecedented rates
AI is able to interpret that data and
determine the meaning of it on a massive
scale
The purview of general AI goes beyond
that of single organizations, enterprises,
and datasets

20. With Great Power…
Our responsibility is to leverage AI to make better decisions by utilizing
data, not to blindly follow.
Today, AI & ML cannot be trusted to make autonomous decisions,
however a time is coming where we will flip that switch
Today we are building the ships, tomorrow we will be steering them.

21. Thank You
Credit: VeChain Thor Project, Towards Data Science, ConSutra