Announcing my next big Adventure…

SingularityNet: Converging AI & Blockchain for the greater good

For the past few months, I have been “quietly” working on bringing a new protocol and organization to life: one that lies at the convergence of AI, Robotics, and Blockchain. This idea could revolutionise the internet as we know it. I want to share this with you, because with your support and feedback, we can take it to the next level.

We are pleased to introduce SingularityNET: a decentralized marketplace for AI algorithms.

I’m helping bring this project to life because AI is the future: automation has already improved the efficiency of more than 700 job types, lowering production costs, and increasing output. However, AI is currently dominated by a few giant corporations who want to monopolize AI and maximize their own share value, at the individual’s expense. But they can only do so because there is no efficient, network alternative available to the general public.

This has to change, and that is why Ben Goertzel, David Hanson, and I are creating SingularityNET, a protocol that allows anyone monetize AI algorithms at scale in a permissionless market.

Despite being founded fairly recently, the inception of SingularityNET finds its roots in the late 90’s. In 1986, Marvin Minsky published a model for human intelligence in “The Society of Minds”, describing interactions between simple parts of a system called “agents.” This inspired Ben to design a structure of distributed intelligent AI nodes running on decentralized machines that contribute, share information, and work together on the internet.

Sophia Hanson

Later on, thanks to the collaboration with Hanson Robotics, Ben and David converged to bring Sophia Hanson to life by developing MindCloud, a cloud-based system that supplies her with intelligent capabilities using the Robotic Operating System (ROS). Both David and Ben have long envisioned a more generalized implementation of MindCloud to other domains and applications, where not only Hanson Robotics and OpenCog but everyone in the world will be able to share their AI code and contribute algorithms to the network.

When we came together earlier this year in Hong Kong, my experience in blockchain and decentralised systems together with the technical expertise at Vulpem proved vital. Blockchain is the final part needed to unleash a decentralized protocol for the AI-to-AI economy. I must admit, since that meeting in Hong Kong, it has been an incredible journey and I am extremely honoured to collaborate with such an inspiring team. Indeed, SingularityNET is a collaborative effort that brings several teams of different expertises, backgrounds, and walks of life together, including:

Hanson Robotics — the world’s most advanced robotic company in the world

OpenCog — global open-source software initiative aimed at building AGI

Novamente — an AI-based R&D and consulting company

Vulpem Ventures — a blockchain and cybersecurity agency

Ever since, we have been through several dozen design iterations of the infrastructure, carefully optimising the most important aspects of what we call a decentralized, self-organizing cooperative of AI agents: from the software architecture and the decentralized governance mechanisms to the economic logic and beyond. This project was only made possible thanks to the incredible contribution of some of the world’s brightest minds in the fields of decentralized computing, engineering, and AI.

You can view our latest efforts by reading the SingularityNET whitepaper and check out the first iteration of the platform available on our Github repository.

Since our first announcement in San Francisco, we have been on a quest to raise awareness around the globe, participating at some of the world’s leading conferences in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, London, Las Vegas, Florence, Maratea, Barcelona, Cancun, Lisbon, Vancouver, Moscow, and more.

If we succeed, SingularityNET will decentralize and democratize access to AI technology. AI infrastructure will be a super public common good that anyone, anywhere will be able to use. We envision a future AI economy that is pervasive and sustainable, in which the immense knowledge and wealth that AI creates is distributed to all sentient beings .

Ultimately, SingularityNET allows us come together to bring this to life. We hope you will join us.

Simone

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