WEB 3.0 and the Knowledge Graph: EpiK is More than a Distributed Storage Project
Today, the Internet is changing our world like a beast. Recently, many people are researching WEB3.0, and the understanding of WEB3.0 is also various, but the more common statement is that in the era of WEB3.0, the reading of the information is more intelligent. Thus, we can’t help but mention the knowledge graph, and even more to mention the construction of a large knowledge graph database EpiK.
Imagine, in the era of WEB3.0, the Internet will understand anything you want. The knowledge graph provides an important infrastructure for the future Internet, and the EpiK protocol is of great significance for the construction of the knowledge graph. Now, let’s see how EpiK affects WEB3.0.
WEB 1.0: Unidirectional Readable
The Internet was established in the 1960s and 1970s, and used for research and military at first, then commercially used in the 1990s. And most of the information on the Internet is available in the form of web pages, which can be referred to as WEB 1.0 during the Internet era roughly from 1990–2000.
For us, web portals, BBS, and other information browsing applications were very popular at that time, and one characteristic that can be seen with WEB 1.0 is more “read”, browse or read.
WEB 2.0: Read, Write, Interact
Since 2000, interaction has become faster and more frequent, and various interactive systems have emerged, such as social networks, now you hold a cell phone to see this article of mine, then forward, praise, leave a message and other actions are in interaction, Didi, Meituan, Ctrip, Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance and other Internet enterprises to seize the dividends of WEB2.0, which are brought to us by WEB2.0.
The underlying logic of this phase of the web has only one change, from Read to Read&Write, i.e., from browsing and reading only to reading and writing, with the addition of “interaction”.
Does adding a “writable” and “interactive” make it so much more? Yes, we are in the midst of change.
We are in the midst of change, and sometimes we are not so sensitive to the rapid changes around us, and sometimes we can’t remember how we used to use Nokia, as if life was like that, and would continue to be like that.
In order to help us understand Web 2.0, I would like to ask you to think about one question: What is the biggest change in Apple’s cell phone?
Do you remember the astonishing sight of Steve Jobs once upon a time? Yes, a phone without a keyboard. What was the major architectural change that made the interaction between humans and phones so much more efficient? One capacitive screen, one screen. Once the iPhone was just an improvement on the interaction level, all other improvements grew out of that improvement, essentially improving the sense of interaction and efficiency.
The iPhone makes interaction more comfortable, and Web 2.0 is more interaction than Web 1.0. The difference in impact is roughly analogous to the difference between inventing the light bulb and making the light bulb a little brighter. The addition of a feature to the underlying architecture produces a tremendously prosperous ecosystem.
This is a random screenshot of my phone, and most of the applications above are products of Web 2.0.
WEB 3.0: Semantic Web
Let’s continue to use this example, you read information on your phone every day, store data, interact with machines and people, and then one day you realize that your many actions have generated a lot of data, which is taken by platform companies and exchanged for a lot of money. And you will always be a “consumer”, in fact, you yourself are also a creator, the creator of your own data, but your creation does not bring you income. However, data validation is only one application of Web 3.0, not its definition.
One of the core aspects of WEB 3.0 is the semantic web, and to understand WEB 3.0 you must understand the semantic web.
Tim Berners-Lee once explained the concept of the semantic web.
“I have a dream that all the computers in the network will be able to analyze the data in the network, including the content, links, and the exchanges between people and computers. The Semantic Web will make all of this possible, and the daily mechanisms of transactions, transactions, and our daily lives will be handled by machine-to-machine communication. The “intelligent agent” that has been vaunted for years will finally be realized.”
So, to simplify, the semantic web is a change in the way information interacts on the web, making it easier for machines to interact with each other, and what Berners-Lee calls “intelligent agents” is very reminiscent of “smart contracts”. Make rules, trigger conditions, and execute them automatically.
So far I haven’t mentioned the blockchain, because many people think WEB 3.0 adds “verifiability” or “trust” based on the semantic web, and the blockchain is called “trusted machine”. So WEB 3.0 is the blockchain. This is true, but it has its limitations. Blockchain is a production relationship that will make the semantic web reliable, secure and verifiable, but WEB 3.0 isn’t all about blockchain.
Knowledge Graphs
The semantic web, if it can be implemented, it will require machines to be reasonably intelligent, and how can machines be reasonably intelligent? Knowledge Mapping.
Let’s leave the noise behind and get back to common sense: How does a person become wise? How is it called wisdom? The person needs to have considerable knowledge.
He has a complete body of knowledge, which is why he is called an expert, a professor, a scholar, a wise man. But when it comes to artificial intelligence, the media reports propagate the idea that if you feed AI data, even if it’s disorganized data, it will grow up to be intelligent. Logically, this idea is as absurd as giving a monkey a bunch of movies and then letting it become a world-class director after a while.
So, people who mention Web 3.0 will mention artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, but this itself is the product of the semantic web’s ever-improving knowledge graph.
Field experts compile the knowledge graph: organized knowledge is better than unorganized storage.
Today’s distributed storage projects each have their advantages, but one disadvantage is fatal: how can you tout distributed storage as the cornerstone of web 3.0? There is not a single well-known storage project on the market today that is not pouring data, useless data, for the sole purpose of gaining rewards. This is a little far from the vision of Web 3.0, and the original intent of the Semantic Web.
Organized knowledge is better than unorganized storage. Today’s storage is brutally unorganized, and organized is only a fraction of the miners, and possibly the miners caught in the pledge mechanism.
To make a machine intelligent with this kind of data is like a million monkeys typing randomly in front of a million computers, which, given a million years, might actually produce a long poem by Shakespeare or Li Bai. But the probability is too low to feed the machine junk data to make it smart, just as it is impossible to expect a child to grow strong by feeding it junk food all day long.
The EpiK protocol is different in that it was designed from the outset with the goal of building a “knowledge graph” and the role of field expert. This distinguishes it from almost every other storage project on the market. To understand the EpiK Knowledge route, one needs to understand the concept of WEB 3.0 and the logic of EpiK.
The logic of the EpiK nameplate protocol is divided into three levels.
Tier 1, Distributed Storage.
The second level, knowledge mapping.
The third layer is artificial intelligence.
As the knowledge graph expands and the semantic network slowly becomes solid and reliable, the AI (artificial intelligence) can accept the knowledge graph for training. Domain experts are one of the key players in verifying the validity of data and building the knowledge graph.
Knowledge has no borders, and knowledge built by all human beings should belong to all human beings and not be monopolized by giants, which is another purpose of knowledge graph. In fact, allowing each individual to benefit from Internet collaboration is one of the driving forces behind the growth of Web 3.0.
Look to the stars and keep your feet on the ground
EpiK’s three-tier logic is a development roadmap and a vision, the completion of which requires the participation and support of more people to map the knowledge spectrum and improve the future semantic network.
Blockchain’s wildcard function is revealed, in which miners maintain the network for mining rewards, foundations promote the ecosystem, project owners focus on their projects, and field experts review the data to transform it into a spectrum of knowledge.
The main network of EpiK protocol is still under development, and the most important thing at this stage is the support of the miners, which of course is not like some projects (e.g., Filecoin) that trap them in the project with pledges and slow releases, with no prospect of getting their money back. Rather, it’s about attraction.
The mining machines on the market today can be divided into three main categories: Bitcoin ASIC mining machines, graphics card mining machines represented by ETH, and storage mining machines represented by Filecoin. At this point in time, there is no one type of mining machine that can cover its original cost within a year, while EpiK is currently involved in mining, which can cover its original cost within 3 to 6 months. The threshold of the mining machine is low, and the management of the mining machine is easier than that of the Bitcoin mining machine, which does not require a professional operation and maintenance team.
This is down-to-earth and attracts people to participate rather than trapping investors. If the network is disconnected or you don’t want to participate in mining, all the pledged EPK coins (EpiK tokens) will be returned without any deduction of the pledged coins, and the computing power will be stopped.
At present, EpiK is still in its early stage, but it has already gained the support of 4,000+ miners.
The miners are still mining and the miner community is still expanding rapidly, as a result of voting with your feet.
Conclusion
In this article, we explain the development history of WEB3.0, and hope that you can understand the meaning of WEB3.0 in layman’s terms. On this basis, the three-layer logic of EpiK protocol is drawn out, and the logical path fits well with WEB3.0. The establishment of knowledge graph in EpiK project will become an important cornerstone of WEB3.0 development, and artificial intelligence and Internet of Things will continue to get help in the development of EpiK in the future.
EpiK is more than just a distributed storage project — it’s just the first layer of logic.
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