BotChain, a universal ledger for verified bot registration on the blockchain, announced on Monday it has formed new partnerships with Passage AI and SEED. According to the company, all three organizations share a common goal – to heighten trust, transparency, and collaboration in the AI ecosystem.
BotChain reported that together with Passage AI and SEED, it is committed to leveraging the power of blockchain to advance these goals. These partnerships further the value of BotChain’s platform, value, and its purpose as a decentralized source of verifiable AI developer and machine identity. The company then revealed that the partnerships with further the value of its platform and its purpose as a decentralized source of verifiable AI developer and machine identity.
“Passage AI is joining a community of established BotChain partners and developers who have all agreed to register their AI bots so that end-users can verify and trust the machines with which they are engaging. Passage AI enables companies to build AI-powered chatbots utilizing natural language processing, natural language understanding, and deep learning alongside its bot development tools. By agreeing to register their bots, end users have an ability to verify both the identity of the bot and the accuracy of the data exchanged. Passage AI’s platform is currently being used by companies such as Kohl’s, PwC and Udacity.”
BotChain’s also reported that the partnership with SEED will explore ways for BotChain’s identity validation standards to be integrated into SEED’s decentralized marketplace for conversational user interfaces.
“The SEED token and network are designed to create a thriving economy of conversational interfaces while enabling users to control their personal data; both the token and network are uniquely designed to support authentication, smart contracts, payments, and ratings in order to reward quality and positive actors in the SEED economy, as well as guard against negative ones. BotChain and SEED will also look for ways for their networks, technologies and tokens to interoperate.”
Speaking about the company’s growth and development, CEO of BotChain, Rob May, stated:
“As we look at a world increasingly penetrated by bot-to-human interaction, the AI community needs to deploy universal infrastructure to decrease some of the trust and security issues causing mainstream concerns around the technology. At BotChain, we see the opportunity for blockchain protocols to fill gaps in the existing infrastructure, namely around identity and trust, which are hindering the ability for enterprises to adopt AI.”
BotChain added that it has also secured a critical mass of aligned partners, including Gupshup and Botkit along with B2B enterprise bot developers Howdy.ai, Polly, CareerLark, Disco (formerly Growbot), Zoom.ai, and Botkeeper. Together, BotChain’s partners represent 50,000 developers, over 150,000 enterprise and consumer facing bots, 400 million end users, and 4 billion monthly interactions.