The creator of the web pages wants us all to have a personal AI that will guard our data

The proposal of Tim Berners-Leehe creator of web pagesfor fix internetis called Solid. And the artificial intelligence could become your ally. Blockchain is useless.

Tim Berners-Lee is a data scientist who created the standard in the early 1990s. WWW, and with it the web pages. Basically, it turned Internet into a tool that could be used by everyone.

The idea of ​​Berners-Lee, and the Internet pioneers, was to create an open source based network and the creation of free software shared by all. Anyone could connect a computer to the Internet, turn it into a server, and set up a web page at home. The individual user had all the power, and all their data.

Under this philosophy, great projects were born that changed the world, and still do, such as the Open SourceLinux, or the Wikipedia.

But then they came large corporations, governments, companies, banksand they took that power away from us. They seized all our dataand with them they control us, spy on us and manipulate us.

The new Internet is called Solid

“Now everyone is on Facebook, so no one has their own website. Everyone uses Mark Zuckerberg’s website“, explains Tim Berners-Lee in an interview in the CBNC.

“When people search for you on Facebook, you don’t really control what they see… Mark Zuckerberg’s algorithms control the news that reaches them when they look at your stuff. That is very useful for Facebook. They have a lot of data about the people they use to target them with ads… but what we’ve lost is the ability for individuals to have power“.

Berners-Lee does not believe that Blockchain is the solution, because “It’s too slow, too expensive, and too public.“. What the Internet needs is for data management to be “fast, cheap and private“.

He creator of web pages He has been working on Solid for years, his proposal for fix internet. For return control of data to users.

Solid proposes save our personal data in a kind of hermetic safe call POD. A user can have a single pod where he stores his personal data, or as many pods as he wants. For example we can have a POD for our gamer data, another for personal data, another for our shopping habits, for work, etc.

These pods can be saved on an online server, but also on our own computer or mobile, on a USB stick, or on a hard drive that we can disconnect from the Internet. And with that, they would disappear from the network.

When you install an app or a browser, you decide what part of your data (or what POD) it can access, so you have total control over what others know about you. And it’s not just theory: now you can create your own POD in Solidand an SDK is now available so that developers can create apps compatible with Solid.

It seems like a utopian idea, but so were open source or Linux at the time, and they succeeded.

Now, with the outbreak of artificial intelligence, Tim Berners-Lee he sees her as a powerful ally… personal. Its focus is not to use ChatGPT as a search engine, at the service of companies. But each person has their own AIa kind of personal assistant with access to our pods.

This artificial intelligence would help us find data or search for information or products, because it knows our tastes and objectives, by having access to our personal data. The difference is that would run locally, on our devicesso it would be at our service, not that of the big corporations as it happens now.

“Sometimes you have the whole spectrum of data, all the data related to your collaborations, your coffees, your projects and your dreams. And the books you’re reading and… your whole life, all of that is in your pod. You can use AI with that. could be great“, explains Berners-Lee on CNBC.

Concepts such as podseither use a personal artificial intelligence as an assistantfor us alone, are very interesting ideas, which seek return control of their personal data to users. But they are difficult to carry out. Large corporations, governments, and companies are not going to allow themselves to be taken away from that power that they have stolen from us.