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Researchers Showcase Decentralized AI-Powered Torrent Search Engine


Researchers from Delft University of Technology plan to amplify their BitTorrent client "Tribler" with decentralized AI-powered search.

There are still plenty of unauthorized sites and services, but few today concern themselves with decentralization and similar technical advances; centralized streaming is the new king with money as the main motivator. While not every technological advancement has been broadly embraced, yet, Tribler has just released a new paper and a proof of concept which they see as a turning point for decentralized AI implementations; one that has a direct BitTorrent link. “For this demo, we trained an end-to-end generative Transformer on a small dataset that comprises YouTube URLs, magnet links, and Bitcoin wallet addresses.

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