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Building an AI Assistant is a very hard problem, in and of itself. Making your service decentralized seems like it will add a lot of complexity and present some limitations. Why can't you just follow good security practices? As evidenced by Google, most people are willing to let a company know a lot about them in order to use a valuable service.

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It has been just 3 years since I got my internet connection. And thus I am aware of what it means to be disconnected. Our initial idea wasn't even remotely about AI. I just wanted to make something which could act as a backup network, something which people with no internet(we have quite a share of this type in my city) could also use.

You see, its not just about privacy. A decentralized network helps you connect to people around you. And about the AI part being difficult, well, good stuff is always difficult ;)

Solving a hard problem can indeed be a good strategy. Trying to solve two hard problems at once can prevent a startup from solving either one. Since both of these have their own independent value, I would suggest that you focus on one first.

I agree. The AI part of the idea is relatively new with respect to the network part. To be specific, we have been working on AI since January and to put things in perspective, we started working in December 2014. All this time, we just worked on the decentralization aspect and the plugin framework.

And regarding the implementation of these two separate ideas, well, Grid is both of them at the same time and how we present it depends on what demographic are we dealing with.

So, yes, it's one thing at a time for us :)

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