The Netflix of: Algorithms as a Service
There is a new form of compute taking place and its under most people radar. Most developers are not even aware they are building it. Platforms like cloud services and blockchains are laying down the pipeline. API’s and smart contracts, respectively are getting created. We are getting to the point where we might ditch the apps and start mix and matching algorithms that help run our lives. Thus, Algorithm as a Service (AaaS) is born.
Algorithms seem like this foreign concept to many people. But it will become a real commodity like choosing a movie from Netflix or picking a special drink from the coke freestyle machine. The algorithm will interface with whatever data, smart contract, api, etc and run jobs to perform some real world experience for the user.
Algorithms will be as prevalent as water or electric. This is why so many cloud services are trying to morph their services into some kind of global computer like Verizon and Comcast are ISPs. Algorithms will be a lot easier to implement when cloud service providers begin to create specialized containers where it’s easily accessible by individual people. An example of this is choosing an algorithm that sends you food everyday without you doing anything. It will randomly choose foods in the local area based on places you have been before using geo tagging. Basically it randomly sends doordash an order from a restaurant and shows up at your house at the right time. This could be one of thousands of algorithms people could choose and apply in their lives.
The future may be a market place of algorithms. The price of each algorithm is governed by the usefulness and the scarcity of the job. When the user sees this, it could possibly look like the Netflix home page with beautiful imagery with a description of what it does and how much it cost. Users will click apply and it starts the job. This may be a soft way to usher in automation.
If you made it this far, then you are in luck. We have made a video that goes in further detail. Check it out if you want.
By Frank Frisby
