I don't know. I'm just curious. I do know that channel selection for optimizing routing is sometimes viewed as an art more than a science. LNDg makes suggestions, or the autopilot like Rene Pickhardt's, so I was wondering whether any tools utilizing AI might be in the works.
From Amboss:
using AI-driven insights derived from over five years of network data.
I'm not discounting the possibility that this is just marketing drivel.
Even if they have a massive tensor file with five years of captured data, past performance isn't a guarantee for the future, especially not in a network like LN that has been rapidly evolving over these same five years. Are patterns from early LN still valid? I don't think so, but happy to be proven wrong.
tools utilizing AI might be in the works.
I think that there could be useful scenarios, but remember that LN still has known weaknesses in the channel closure process - which is why you run watchtowers - so you need to make a judgement call every time you open a channel. I'd not leave using judgement to something that literally has no capacity for judgement 1
afaik machine learning (aka AI) is part of how CashApp is making 10% yield. They have a dedicated team of engineers working on optimizing their node. None of that is open source afaik.
Also, I won't name names, but there's a lightning company that released a lightning wallet in the last few years (targeted at latam) that they released for the sole purpose of gathering data that they could use for machine learning purposes.
Some nodes in non-replicable positions, based on their affiliation or proximity to a service and scale do so, but those are the exception. Routing isn't a business, its an extension of a business.
Routing fees in Lightning are simply to make the system work, it is 0 sum... your fees earned offset fees paid.
As a permissionless system that anyone can enter, your dumb capital has no advantage... you'll be blindly hoping to arb something opaque.
So instead of buying a product claiming to give you magic data to direct your dumb and entirely un-special capital, OFFER a product which attracts throughput on your node, the routing fees can then extend your margins on that. Maybe that product is a loss leader in and of itself designed just to generate routing traffic.
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