Generative AI launches on Polygon
Millions of Artificially Intelligent Collectibles can now be minted on Polygon
Alethea AI and Polygon Labs have partnered to launch the world’s first AI Collectibles campaign, which allows anyone to rapidly create, train and trade AI Characters as NFTs on Polygon.
The AI Characters are generated using Alethea AI’s recently launched Generative AI System CharacterGPT, a multimodal text-to-character system that goes beyond traditional text-to-image engines like Open AI’s Dall-E 2 or Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion model. CharacterGPT enables users to generate fully interactive and intelligent AI characters with a single-line prompt in natural language. Users can generate free AI characters on the recently launched AI Protocol’s dApp mycharacter.ai and then mint them as NFTs on Polygon.
To demonstrate this, a one-of-one AI Collectible of Sandeep Nailwal, the co-founder of Polygon Labs, is now live on the dApp mycharacter.ai, as a tokenized Digital Twin. Sandeep’s AI Collectible is modelled on his writings, public statements and interviews. It can educate millions of users concurrently on the benefits of utilising the Polygon blockchain ecosystem and share anecdotal wisdom on Sandeep’s journey to become a successful entrepreneur. As more users interact with Sandeep’s Digital Twin, the underlying AI becomes progressively more intelligent over time.
Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon says: “Generative AI is advancing at a rapid rate and has the potential to profoundly impact our lives in the coming years. I have seen firsthand how Alethea AI has developed this technology over the last few years and through their CharacterGPT AI engine, users will be able to create interactive characters in a matter of seconds. We are excited to continue supporting Alethea as it builds on Polygon and to bring the power and potential of generative AI to the thriving ecosystem.”
Sandeep’s tokenized AI Collectible comes with an on-chain and verified proof of ownership, represented as a Gold Checkmark on the dApp’s Interface, that is meant to showcase that his AI-generated likeness and intelligence was generated with his permission. The AI Collectible sits in Sandeep’s Web3 Wallet on Polygon, which he owns and controls. Given the legitimate criticism that Generative AI companies are receiving for training their models on datasets without the explicit consent of its users, the verified Digital Twin of Sandeep Nailwal is the first of its kind launched by Alethea AI and its partners on the AI Protocol: a property rights and ownership layer for Generative AI that is now live on Polygon.
Ahmad Matyana, COO of Alethea AI commented, “Generative AI needs a digital property rights backbone to not only provide users the opportunity to bring their imagination to life, but to also own their creations. With CharacterGPT, users can now create interactive, intelligent characters that could serve as their AI companions, digital guides or as NPCs in games. By launching on Polygon, we are now enabling these users to not just create characters for the purposes of training AI engines, but to own them as AI Collectibles In their wallets. We believe a multimodal system like CharacterGPT will herald a Cambrian explosion in character and IP creation, backed by a decentralized model of ownership and governance.”
Each AI character generated on CharacterGPT is fully compatible with the recently deployed smart contracts of the AI Protocol on Polygon. Alethea AI believes that the AI Protocol will serve as the underlying connective tissue that will enable NFTs to ‘come alive’ as interactive media assets, with on-chain personality traits, interoperability across various dApps, powerful generative capabilities, and in the case of Digital Twins: on-chain verification of consent.
The type of AI Collectibles that might be generated on Polygon using Alethea AI’s CharacterGPT AI System are limitless: celebrities might choose to create their own permissioned digital twins to interact with their fans in a scalable way, IP owners can create licensed interactive characters to serve as digital companions for their fans, users can create Siri-like or Alexa-like assistants that can be deployed in their homes, museums and cultural institutions can bring historical figures to life to interact in real-time with their visitors and Metaverses and gaming environments can rapidly deploy engaging NPCs to interact and go on quests with their users, increasing engagement and retention in their gaming environments.
About Alethea AI
Alethea AI is a research and development studio building at the intersection of two of the most transformative technologies of our time: Generative AI and Blockchain. Our mission is to use these technologies to enable democratic and decentralized ownership of AI. We believe that this will be the key to unlocking the full potential of AI and that it will ultimately benefit humanity as a whole.
For more information visit https://alethea.ai/. To create and collect your character, visit mycharacter.ai, a dAPP built using the AI Protocol’s smart contracts on Polygon.
About Polygon Labs:
Polygon Labs develops Ethereum scaling solutions for Polygon protocols. Polygon Labs engages with other ecosystem developers to help make available scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Polygon Labs has initially developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s (zero-knowledge rollups and optimistic rollups), sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols. Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding unique addresses exceeding 211 million, over 1.12 million smart contracts created and 2.36 billion total transactions processed since inception. The existing Polygon network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects, such as Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and well-known enterprises, including Robinhood, Stripe and Adobe. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.
