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Greetings Singularitarians,
Last month, we made significant progress on multiple fronts. From upgrades to our core platform to strategic community initiatives, we are relentlessly working toward our vision for a world where AIs benefits are disseminated universally.
We implemented a series of upgrades to our decentralized AI platform, focusing on streamlining development processes and improving the user experience within the Marketplace. Key enhancements include optimized gRPC message handling, expanded network listening capabilities, and a more robust service publishing experience.
We published a comprehensive report highlighting the significant advancements made with our OpenCog Hyperon AGI framework, alongside our evolving roadmap toward achieving Beneficial General Intelligence (BGI). The report delves into technical milestones and the strategic direction guiding our AGI research and development.
Additionally, we released our Decentralized AI Platform Strategy and Roadmap report for 2024. This comprehensive report outlines the key achievements of the past year and provides a detailed blueprint for the Platforms development in 2024. The roadmap emphasizes four core areas: the Internet of Knowledge, integrations with other decentralized networks, scalability and usability improvements, and initiatives to drive wider adoption.
The Beneficial AGI Summit & Unconference in Panama was also a resounding success. The event brought together prominent AI thought leaders, developers, and researchers to discuss issues, make conceptual progress, form collaborations, and engage in practical actions to catalyze the emergence of beneficial AGI based on the ideas and connections set in motion by all involved.
Finally, our Supervisory Council conducted two workshops to strengthen the SingularityNET community. These workshops focused on identifying strategies to increase participation, foster deeper engagement, and support the overall growth of the ecosystem.
· Decentralized AI Platform: Technical Update
· Daemon (A minor release is planned for the week of March 4th)
· Listener
· Publisher
· Marketplace
· Comments From the Platform Team
· Ecosystem News & Updates
· SingularityNETs Progress Toward AGI: Achievements and Roadmap
· SingularityNET Decentralized AI Platform: Strategy and Roadmap
· BGI Pre-Event Series
· Supervisory Council Community Workshops in February
· Deep Funding Test Round Results
· Rejuve Biotech Crowd Sale**
· NuNet
· Mindplex
· Sophiaverse
· Cogito
· Jam Galaxy
· HyperCycle
· SingularityDAO
· Rejuve.AI
· Latest SingularityNET & Ecosystem Updates and Events
· Beneficial AGI Summit & Unconference 2024
· Mindplex Podcasts in February
The latest round of technical updates for our Decentralized AI Platform brings significant enhancements and bug fixes across several core components. Key improvements include refined gRPC message handling within the Daemon, expanded network listening capabilities, a more robust service publishing experience, and bug fixes in the Marketplace.
These updates collectively streamline AI development and Marketplace interactions on the Platform.
We published our Progress Toward Beneficial General Intelligence (BGI) report, highlighting the extraordinary body of work carried out by the SingularityNET core AGI team in collaboration with our spinoffs TrueAGI and Zarqa, our partners, and the wider OpenCog community.
We specifically focus on the technical advancements of the OpenCog Hyperon AGI framework. Key achievements include advancing Hyperons cognitive components, extending AI-DSL into the MeTTa SDK, and advancements in experiential learning through projects like ROCCA & NARS.
We also outline a roadmap for future development, focusing on Hyperon Alpha, real-world applications, expansions of Hyperon components, interoperability with the SingularityNET platform, and implementation of the PRIMUS cognitive model.
While our commitment to achieving BGI is nothing new, what is different today is our transition from conceptualization to active implementation, translating our AGI R&D ideas into advanced systems ready to deal with real-world use cases.
The report also serves as an open invitation to AGI researchers and the wider AI community to contribute to our open cognitive-level approach and help drive the development of true AGI.
In February, we also shared our Decentralized AI Platform strategy and roadmap for 2024. The purpose of this report is to detail the achievements of the past year and outline our Platform development roadmap for 2024, with an emphasis on four key items:
Throughout 2023, the Platform underwent architectural changes and other strategic enhancements aimed at refining and solidifying its development trajectory and aligning it with our Beneficial AGI plans, bringing us closer to our shared vision: a full-scale modernized AI Platform.
In the lead-up to the BGI Summit & Unconference, we hosted a series of insightful fireside chats and discussions exploring the vital questions on the path toward Beneficial General Intelligence. Here is a look back at Februarys conversations:
The SingularityNET Community was recently invited to participate in two workshops focused on defining its purpose and mission within the wider SingularityNET ecosystem. The first session was held during an Ambassadors Townhall, while the second was a standalone workshop, both led by Supervisory Council Member Grace Rachmany.
Both sessions provided a platform for community members to shape the Communitys direction and goals. Participants explored how the community can best support SingularityNETs growth and the overarching mission of developing Benevolent AGI.
The insights and discussions from these workshops will be instrumental in guiding the SingularityNET Communitys future. Thank you to everyone who participated and contributed their valuable perspectives and we hope to see you again during the third and final workshop in this series. Stay tuned for further details and how to participate in shaping the SingularityNET Communitys future.
In February, we launched the Deep Funding Test Round to test our new proposal platform and gather user feedback. The Test Round was open to a limited number of teams selected through a whitelisting process. Teams submitted proposals for Ideation Phase Projects, New Projects, or RFPs.
We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Test Round have been selected. These winning teams are set to receive over $150,000 in AGIX to support the development of their impactful ideas and add significant value to the SingularityNET decentralized AI Platform and marketplace.
We would like to express our gratitude to all the teams that took part in this important Test Round and extend special thanks to everyone who voted. Your feedback will help us continue to improve and refine the Deep Funding platform.
Rejuve Biotech focuses on identifying new targets and pathways for therapies that could mitigate age-related diseases like Alzheimers, cardiovascular disease, and cancer through advanced AI, cross-organism insights, and cutting-edge multi-omics research.
NuNet is building a globally decentralized computing framework, individually rewarded via a tokenomic ecosystem based on NuNet Utility Token (NTX).
Mindplex is a magazine and a social media platform providing a dynamic space for creators, influencers, and media enthusiasts to connect and collaborate.
SophiaVerse is a leading Web3 AI / Metaverse project that aims to bring the renowned Sophia Robot and other robots to humanoid sentience.
Cogito provides institutional-grade investment products by bringing traditional financial assets onchain.
Web3 Music Studio leverages AI and blockchain to transform how artists and fans experience music
HyperCycle is building an essential component that enables AI Machines to transact with other AI machines in a sub-second finality, resulting in unprecedented emergence.
SingularityDAO is a decentralized portfolio management protocol designed to revolutionize crypto asset management.
Rejuve.AI is a decentralized, AI-driven longevity research network allowing people worldwide to track their health data, receive valuable insights, contribute to cutting-edge longevity research, and earn RJV rewards.
SingularityNET, as a global leader in the fields of beneficial, decentralized AI and AGI, social robotics, and AI plus blockchain implementation, is regularly sought out to provide thought leadership across a range of critical topics on emerging technologies:
In a landmark event for the AI community, we hosted the Beneficial General Intelligence (BGI) Summit & Unconference 2024 in Panama City, Panama. Presented by SingularityNET, TrueAGI, and HyperCycle, the Summit convened a worldwide community of industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, media, academics, and global leading voices in AI like the luminary George Gilder, Co-Founder of Discovery Institute, to establish valuable connections and discuss how to guide AGI governance and leverage generally intelligent machines to support ethical, social, and economic progress.
The event kicked off on February 27th with a highly anticipated keynote by SingularityNET Founder and CEO, Dr. Ben Goertzel. In his address, Dr. Goertzel presented strong arguments for the potential of achieving human-level Artificial General Intelligence within years, followed by superintelligence (ASI) shortly thereafter. He called for immediate action to increase the likelihood of a beneficial outcome from this transformative AGI revolution.
With Big Tech companies like Meta and IBM starting to advocate for an open-science approach to AI development, Dr. Goertzel acknowledged the importance of open-source AI for transparency and collaboration. However, he signaled that open-source code alone is not sufficient: Open source code is great but if you are open sourcing your code but the data needed to make that code do anything is proprietary and the software needed to run that code usefully costs a hundred million dollars, then the fact that the code is open source is of less use than one might expect.
Therefore, Dr. Goertzel proposed one of the potential alternative paths to AI development, deployment, and governance, stressing the need for additional guiding principles to avoid scenarios where a small number of companies or government agencies have excessive control over the future of humanity. Specifically, he advocated for decentralized deployment and governance models to prevent the concentration of power and promote democratic control.
Additionally, he emphasized the importance of open-ended cognitive approaches to AGI, prioritizing architectures like OpenCog Hyperon, the new version of the OpenCog system. He also underlined the critical need for ethical data practices, advocating for the use of ethically sourced and managed data to train AI models. Finally, he highlighted the importance of inclusivity, ensuring that the benefits of transformative technologies are accessible to everyone.
Building upon the themes outlined by Dr. Goertzel, the Summit delved into key areas critical for the responsible and beneficial advancement of AGI. Key themes included examining the ethical implications of AGI systems, exploring different AGI architectures, weighing the risks and benefits of AGI self-improvement, analyzing the pros and cons of open-source AGI development, defining evolving notions of benefit, and understanding the influence of global power structures on AGI evolution.
Current AI alignment approaches do not stem from a deep understanding of how to build a society capable of perpetuating itself into the future in which we coexist with AI and with each other and life on Earth, but mostly from a perspective that is about emulating good behavior.
Joscha Bach, AI Strategist, Liquid AI
Summit discussions also addressed the impact of AGI ownership on ethical outcomes, the role of human consciousness in shaping AGI, strategies for maximizing beneficial AGI development, the ability of AGI to embody human ethics, aligning the pace of regulation with AGI progress, fostering a positive feedback loop between humans and AGI, balancing corporate and national interests, and proactively preventing regulatory capture.
SingularityNET COO Janet Adams took the stage to discuss the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape for AI. Drawing on her experience overseeing regulatory change in the banking sector, she emphasized the potential for catastrophic failures if AI systems lack robust governance. Those of us leading this AI technology revolution have a ginormous responsibility in our hands to ensure that nobody is caused distress, she stressed.
Janet also highlighted the unprecedented global momentum toward raising ethical standards through AI regulation, noting a particular focus on fairness and de-biasing. She discussed the transformative potential of AI to expose and address hidden biases within organizations, seeing it as a catalyst for positive change: I see AI as a tremendous beneficial force for humanity and one of its gifts is bringing us all to common standards of fairness to diversity to inclusion to transparency to respect for human rights.
On Day 2, SingularityNET Chief AI Alchemist Dr. Mihaela Ulieru delivered a thought-provoking keynote that challenged the status quo. She drew parallels to the ancient concept of Moloch, a symbol of systems that demand sacrifice for the benefit of the powerful. Dr. Ulieru argued that modern society is driven by similar perverse incentives, where corporations, governments, and individuals prioritize short-term gains at the expense of long-term well-being. We are a commodity for advertisers and food for the cannibalistic industrial complex because of these incentives, she declared.
Dr. Ulieru explained how decentralization, guided by the right incentives, could disrupt this destructive pattern and create a more equitable world. She called for a fundamental shift from a game of economic incentives to one based on cultivating wisdom, building relationships, and aligning with the laws of nature. Her keynote served as a powerful call to action, urging the audience to reimagine the rules of society and harness the potential of AGI to usher in a new era of human flourishing.
Following the flagship BGI Summit (February 2728), the Unconference took place from February 29th to March 1st. This participant-driven format aimed to foster in-depth discussions and collaborative exploration of specific topics. Attendees were empowered to propose ideas and lead parallel working sessions centered around common themes. Key themes included developing a voluntary Constitution and Governance Framework for open-source AGI projects, exploring a Gl
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