In September’s edition of our Ecosystem Roundup, we present the latest advancements and milestones across our decentralized AI Platform and the wider SingularityNET ecosystem. Key highlights include the addition of CUDOS to the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance.
Additionally, we provide progress reports from our Ambassadors and ecosystem projects, highlighting the dynamic growth within our ecosystem.
Finally, we highlight notable media coverage, cementing SingularityNET’s position as a leader in the decentralized AI space.
On September 11, 2024, the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance proposed the integration of CUDOS, a leading Decentralised Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) for AI compute, into the ASI Alliance. FET (ASI) token holders were subsequently invited to make their voices heard about this token merger from September 19, 2024, at 6 pm UTC and close on September 24, 2024, at 6 pm UTC.
The proposal prompted thoughtful discussions on how the integration of CUDOS can accelerate product development across the Alliance and boost the utility of the unified ASI Alliance token (FET). CUDOS’s cloud model offers significant advantages over traditional centralized approaches, such as enhanced scalability, cost-efficiency, and flexibility. With CUDOS, premium AI infrastructure like NVIDIA H100 GPUs can be accessed at approximately 50% of the cost of Amazon AWS, effectively amplifying the impact of Fetch.ai and SingularityNET’s $153 million hardware investment.
“The integration of CUDOS into the Alliance will move us forward dramatically in the area of computing hardware infrastructure, one of the critical ingredients we need to fulfill our mission.” Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance
The proposal received overwhelming support from FET (ASI) token holders, with 99.99% approval on the Fetch.ai Mainnet and 96.67% approval across the Ethereum, Cardano, and Binance Smart Chain networks, marking the addition of CUDOS as the newest member of the Alliance.
The integration of CUDOS into the ASI ecosystem reinforces the Alliance’s commitment to scaling decentralized AI and safeguarding the development of superintelligent systems. This merger brings ASI closer to its goal of creating an open, robust, scalable, and independent AI infrastructure that drives rapid advancements while maintaining the highest standards of transparency and inclusivity.
The Strategic Initiatives Office (SIO) is a cross-functional team dedicated to advancing SingularityNET’s position in the decentralized AI space. The SIO focuses on the strategic design, proposal, and execution of SingularityNET’s initiatives, focusing on commercialization, revenue modeling, and resource orchestration.
The SIO team represented SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance at Binance’s KOL Camp in Panama in August 2024, where they also discussed and promoted our collaboration with Binance Smart Chain.
The Binance team brought together the top 50 Web3 influencers from the LATAM market for the KOL Camp, providing SingularityNET and the Alliance an excellent opportunity to expand our regional presence. Several key initiatives were agreed upon during the event:
The following table shows the number of currently active partnerships:
The ‘SingularityNET’s Technical Tuesdays’ series explores the development of the SingularityNET decentralized AI Platform, advances in the OpenCog Hyperon framework for AGI and beyond, and highlights how we are translating our AI and AGI R&D ideas into systems for real-world use cases.
On Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024, we were joined by Berick Cook, AI Developer at SingularityNET, for a live Minecraft demo of the Autonomous Intelligent Reinforcement Inferred Symbolism (AIRIS) experiential learning system. During the demo, we discussed how AIRIS enables causality-based artificial intelligent agents and how it can help to increase the generality of autonomous agents and the data efficiency of learning goal-directed behaviors.
We explored the strengths and limitations of Reinforcement Learning and where AIRIS can be particularly advantageous. We also discussed future R&D directions and potential real-world applications of AIRIS.
The session was designed to be highly interactive, with advanced AI developers and community members invited to propose specific scenarios for real-time testing within the Minecraft environment and engage in technical discussions on AIRIS architecture and underlying algorithms.
The SingularityNET Ambassador Program is a community-driven initiative that strengthens the transparency and decentralization of our ecosystem, recognizes the valuable contributions made by our Ambassadors, and rewards their achievements.
In September, our Ambassadors actively contributed to the SingularityNET ecosystem in the following ways:
To learn more about these recent developments, explore the Archives or watch the recordings of the SingularityNET Ambassador Program’s September Town Hall meetings on YouTube:
If you are interested in getting involved and joining our community-driven guilds and workgroups, please join our Discord server and navigate to the How to Join section for guidance.
Twin Protocol enables you to create a digital version of yourself to capture your unique skills, knowledge, and personality that you can share with others through a tokenized marketplace.
Web3 Music Studio leverages AI, blockchain & DePIN infrastructure to transform how artists and fans experience music.
NuNet is building a globally decentralized computing framework, individually rewarded via a tokenomic ecosystem based on NuNet Utility Token (NTX).
Rejuve Biotech focuses on identifying new targets and pathways for therapies that could mitigate age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, and cancer through advanced AI, cross-organism insights, and cutting-edge multi-omics research.
SingularityNET, as a global leader in the fields of AI, AGI, social robotics, and the intersection of AI and blockchain technology, is regularly sought out to provide thought leadership on a global stage.
In the past month, our team participated in the following key events:
We recently participated in TOKEN2049, the world’s largest crypto event, held at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on September 18-19, 2024. The event, which preceded the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix 2024 race weekend, brought together an estimated 20,000 attendees from over 150 countries. We were pleased to welcome some of them to the ASI Alliance booth to connect, exchange ideas, network, and shape the future of the decentralized AI industry.
Dr. Ben Goertzel, took the Sky stage on September 19, 2024, alongside Sophia Robot and her sister Desdemona Robot from Yaya Labs. Dr. Goertzel’s keynote address explored the future of AGI, decentralized AI, creativity, and the path to superintelligence, highlighting our mission to accelerate the advancement of decentralized AGI and ASI and offer a compelling alternative to Big Tech’s control over AI development, use, and monetization.
CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel joined Dr. Aubrey de Grey, President of Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation and member of Rejuve.Bio’s Scientific Advisory Board, and Peter Fedichev, CEO of GERO, at VitaDAO’s DeSci Summit in Singapore to explore the application of AI and blockchain technology to the quest to extend human healthspan.
Dr. Goertzel highlighted that the real power of AI-based longevity research lies in its ability to integrate diverse domains and aspects of aging into a unified rigorous understanding. This integration requires a wide variety of heterogeneous data across different systems, organisms, and scales. After this data integration, a diversity of AI architectures and approaches are needed to identify patterns in the data and conceive hypotheses and experiments accordingly.
When discussing AI methods, Dr. Goertzel stated, “I think large language models (LLMs) and deep neural networks are useful. I’m working a lot with probabilistic, evolutionary learning, and other AI methods.” He stressed the importance of using a diverse set of AI methods, noting, “I think you need a heterogeneous collection of AI methods as well as a heterogeneous large diverse data set.”
Dr. Goertzel then elaborated on how these concepts are being applied in practice through various projects within the SingularityNET ecosystem. He mentioned Rejuve.AI led by Jasmine Smith, a SingularityNET ecosystem project that is addressing part of the longevity research challenge by creating a decentralized network of longevity enthusiasts. These participants contribute data about their bodies for analysis and take part in early trials exploring the effectiveness of therapies, including those derived from their data.
Dr. Goertzel also discussed the work of Kennedy Schaal and her team at Rejuve.Bio, where AI experts and biomedical scientists collaborate with AGI leaders at SingularityNET and TrueAGI Inc. to develop a neural-symbolic framework for analyzing and understanding longevity-related data, systems, and processes. This framework integrates deep neural networks (including LLMs) with symbolic and evolutionary AI implemented in OpenCog Hyperon, the latest version of the OpenCog integrative AGI toolkit.
He highlighted a unique source of valuable longevity data that Rejuve Bio has accessed through its partnership with Genescient Inc.: the -omics data from long-lived Methuselah flies. These fruit flies have been experimentally evolved to live about five times longer than control flies. The Rejuve.Bio AI framework applies transfer learning to understand the implications of insights from these flies for human longevity, leading to new understandings of the pathways and networks underlying aging in humans and potential therapies for extending human healthspan. The practical outcomes of these AI analytics include suggestions for novel nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and gene-therapy interventions for healthspan extension.
CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel took the stage at one of Asia’s biggest entrepreneurship networking events of the year, All That Matters 2024, to discuss why “Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Matters.”
During his keynote address, Dr. Goertzel explored the potential of machines to develop compassion, creativity, and curiosity, both independently and in collaboration with humans. He also discussed how the transition from today’s narrow and dataset-bound AI to tomorrow’s AGI can bring humanity and technology together in unprecedented ways, creating a cooperative future that will benefit us all.
Dr. Goertzel presented several fields where AI and proto-AGI tools are currently being applied, including music, art, writing, math, and science. To illustrate ongoing work in the field, Dr. Goertzel referenced the “Beyond the Code” AI immersive documentary, a project he is co-producing with Nefertiti Strong. This docuseries documents current efforts to develop beneficial AGI and merge AI capabilities with human creativity. The project aims to examine the technical aspects of AI-human collaboration while also considering the ethical and societal implications of these technological advancements.
We are fortunate to have some great community leaders who actively contribute to the growth and development of the SingularityNET ecosystem. Here are some of the latest community-created initiatives that showcase the creativity and collaborative spirit thriving within our ecosystem:
Join our vibrant community to dive deeper into the world of SingularityNET and discover how you can participate in shaping a more decentralized and democratized AI future. Connect with us on Discord and explore our Ambassador Program for opportunities to collaborate, learn, and contribute to our shared vision.
SingularityNET in the News
Recent media coverage highlights the progress we are making, the partnerships we are forging, and the thought leadership we are providing in the AI space:
We are proud of the work our teams and community accomplished in September, and we remain committed to continuing to lead the way in decentralized AI and the quest for beneficial AGI.
SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission of creating a decentralized, democratic, inclusive, and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). An AGI is not dependent on any central entity, is open to anyone, and is not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or even a single country. The SingularityNET team includes seasoned engineers, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. Our core platform and AI teams are further complemented by specialized teams devoted to application areas such as finance, robotics, biomedical AI, media, arts, and entertainment.
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