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Those who followed Dawn closely know that she's heavily involved in AI (her dream is even to build her own robot RoboterTotenkopf.wav) and while the others larp about it, Oasis is actually doing it. Meta AI is just one that we know of, and if you're an OG you'll remember the image of all the big brains involved in various AI projects by the big tech institutes (google brain being chief amongst them) following Dawn closely.
The modular design with the simplicity of the of the consensus layer, leaves the ParaTimes layer open to build all sorts of separate computation, and one of the main selling point (which Ari spoke about in 2018, but was already clear by him and the IC3 (which Dawn is a Faculty member of) was the importance of privacy and confidentiality. Ari stressed it clearly that it was one of the main challenges to blockchain for wider adoption) is its privacy pre-serving tech. In fact the utility is far bigger than just "hiding transaction" but is the first and probably the most important step to enabling a responsible data economy that Dawn often talks about, to get an idea about how much data is used every day; check this report by the WEF from 2017 https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Articulating_Value_from_Data_2021.pdf "Public sector data sharing is estimated to create socio-economic benefits worth between 0.1% and1.5% of GDP, and between 1% and 2.5% of GDP when including private sector data"