Cisco Systems Inc. and SingularityNET are coming together to host the former’s decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) project. The former is a networking major and the latter is a decentralized AI company. Cisco will develop its AGI project on the blockchain platform of SingularityNET.

AGI enables machines to perceive and learn any intellectual activities that a human can perform. Strong AI is another term referring to AGI. It has the ability of reasoning, solving problems and even communication in natural language. Cisco’s adoption of AGI in its project is a huge step in the development of the firm. Earlier, both firms have worked on smart traffic analytics based on OpenCog’s logical reasoning. However, this work was just the tip of the iceberg and the firms are planning for a broader and deeper aspect.

Earlier this year, SingularityNET partnered with Hara, an agriculture-focused blockchain startup, to assist farmers with informed decision making. Ben Goertzel, founder, and CEO of SingularityNET was heading the creation of the humanoid robot named Sophia. The partnership between the two companies was to utilize these data and help farmers with AI-powered crop diagnosis and data analytics. In addition, the partners are also aiming to offer crop diseases related information that will aid in the automated diagnosis of crop diseases as per the source.