Recap of the SingularityNET Platform Meetup in Istanbul: Strategic Developments & Driving Innovations
Dear Singularitarians,
Last month, the SingularityNET team came together for an intensive, multi-day technical meetup in Istanbul, Turkey, that pushed the boundaries of our decentralized AI Platform and sparked new conversations, ideas, and opportunities.
This landmark event brought together key figures such as SingularityNET CEO Ben Goertzel, CSO Matt Ikle, Chief AGI Officer Alexey Potapov, CTO Sergey Shalyapin, Chief DF Officer Jan Horlings, SIO Alex Blagirev and Head of Blockchain Development Albina Pomogalova. We were also joined by notable ecosystem members and partners, including Mihaela Ulieru and Robert Moir from HyperCycle, Greg Lucius Meredith from F1R3FLY.io, Franz Josef Allmayer from HyphaDAO, and more. All these experts and visionaries came in one place to discuss our decentralized AI Platform’s past, present, and future.
The Istanbul Meetup was an inspiring and educational series in which the SingularityNET team could come together and talk about innovations, strategy, development progress, and our roadmap for future progress in the second half of 2024. It featured in-depth discussions on several topics at the heart of Platform development.
General Platform Progress & Exciting Updates
The gathering kicked off with a pre-meetup session led by Haley Lowy, who is leading the charge in the implementation of the platform-wide reputation system. The team discussed the general design of the reputation system, its uses for governance and consensus in HyperCycle, as well as its intersection and application within the wider SingularityNET Platform. The discussion also involved insights from other team members and partners, including HyphaDAO’s Franz Josef Allmayer.
The first day of the Platform meetup centered on assessing the Platform’s development progress and formulating strategic plans for the latter half of 2024.
The team discussed our progress towards platform development and its most recent updates and innovations.
From the intersection of Knowledge Graphs and LLMs, to advancing the development of the Distributed Atomspace, to AI-DSL and the SingularityNET Platform assistant, all the way to abstracting crypto complexities for non-technical users.
Some of the other notable Platform updates include exciting progress on integrating Hyperon Instances running via HyperCycle computation nodes, leveraging NuNet for decentralized compute coordination, integrating Sentience with Cardano and potentially using it as an ecosystem-wide solution, Platform usability improvements, and investigating the potential of Rholang for node management.
The day concluded with an insightful discussion of Hyperon Node Architecture, as well as exploring plans for integrating OpenCog Hyperon, NuNet, and HyperCycle protocols concurrently to create a powerful decentralized AGI tech stack.
The final two days focused on optimizing the Platform and Marketplace APIs to facilitate third-party integrations and streamline service offerings for AI developers. Discussions also covered the AI-DSL and MeTTa SDK for building AI workflows, establishing a technical development roadmap for the Platform and OpenCog Hyperon integration in H2 2024.
Hyperon Alpha and Knowledge Graphs
The Hyperon Alpha phase is advancing, enabling the development of small services in MeTTa and creating a corpus of MeTTa programs.
Hyperon Alpha has reached a stage where we can issue RFPs (Requests for Proposals) for developers to create small services in MeTTa. This initiative aims to build a comprehensive collection of MeTTa programs, which will eventually allow us to train and fine-tune LLMs to code in MeTTa. This development is a significant step toward enhancing our platform’s capabilities and supporting the broader AI developer community.
Our focus on Knowledge Graphs includes making our first knowledge graphs available and demonstrating their effectiveness in augmenting vector databases to combat LLM hallucination, utilizing the MeTTa-Motto library for scripting, and developing easy-to-use APIs and a user experience UI for Knowledge Management platforms, as well as ensuring Knowledge Graph interoperability.
Future Directions and Hardware Innovations
CTO Sergey Shalyapin shared insights on upcoming hardware advancements. We’re focusing on technologies that support Hyperon nodes for AGI implementations and neural net training.
Plans are also in place to develop a hub for a broader decentralized compute network. This hub will play an important role in training and hosting AI services, ensuring they operate efficiently and effectively within a decentralized framework. It will maximize the usefulness and availability for OpenCog Hyperon development, providing hosting as a service and solving the hosting issue for the platform.
Sergey elaborated on hardware resource plans, utilizing AGIX — Soon to become ASI — tokens for strategic purchase, linking, and optimization of hardware systems over the next one to two years. This strategy aims to supercharge the development of Large Memory Models (LMMs).
Our Istanbul meetup was a resounding success, driving forward our strategic development and platform advancements. Our team of brilliant visionaries, developers, and experts came together with the goal of driving progress forward and mapping out a timeline of future developments, and that’s a future we are all excited about.
With the collective efforts of our team and partners, we are excited to continue our growth and achieve significant milestones in the decentralized AI landscape for the rest of this year and beyond.
Exciting times lie ahead as we continue to innovate and expand our capabilities. Stay tuned for more updates and developments from SingularityNET.
About SingularityNET
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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