Rejuve Network Token Launch — a Leap Forward in Quest to Apply AI and Blockchain to Human Longevity
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Ever since the two-year-old version of myself discovered that death was a thing and, worse yet, a so-far inevitable thing for humans, it’s felt clear to me that somehow beating death should be a top priority for our species.
When the human genome project succeeded, I was more like 35 years old, and my optimism on the timeline for curing aging increased — as did my confidence that AI would probably play a large role in the process of achieving human superlongevity. The volume and intricacy of genomics data were obviously just too much for the human mind to handle — let alone proteomics, epigenomics, metabolomics, and all the rest. Complex interactions between multiple biological networks operating across body systems and scales would obviously be better understood with AI assistance.
Unsurprisingly, as my own age has advanced (I’m now 56, egads!), the problem of extending human health span has come to intrigue me more and more. And the more I’ve learned about the biology of aging, the clearer it’s become to me that there is no one problem that causes aging and probably no one remedy to cure it. Rather we should aim for a cocktail of therapies addressing the complex cross-connected problems unfolding in various aspects of our bodies as we get older.
The hard-core transhumanist in me feels sometimes that saving human bodies is maybe not the most critical thing — why not just upload our minds into some sort of more reliable substrate instead? But my old-fashioned humanist side feels that no matter how advanced the AGI and VR and robotics tech we create, there will be an intrinsic moral and aesthetic value in healing the historical deficiencies of the human body and creating healthier bodies that more fully realize the beauty of what it is to be human.
The Origins of the Rejuve Longevity Project
When I decided to put some attention on the aging problem in 2001, shortly after the completion of the human genome project, I started out by applying various machine learning algorithms to genomic datasets and curating the BioAtomspace , a metagraph knowledge base of biological data in the memory of (what in 2008 turned into) the OpenCog AI system .. and then experimenting with the Probabilistic Logic Networks reasoning system for biomedical discovery.
After co-founding SingularityNET in late 2017, it only took around 6 months for me to gather my SingularityNET colleagues and some of my friends from the biomedical world together to put our heads together about how to use AI, blockchain and genomics to make a synergistic attack on the aging problem — leveraging my prior work in the area and whatever other new methods and insights could be mustered. An early form of Rejuve was created in 2018 as a project to be incubated within SingularityNET Foundation, with a view toward eventually spinning it out on its own.
And now, in 2023, the time has come. Rejuve has grown and transformed a lot since the preliminary 2018 version and has blossomed into two coupled projects — Rejuve Biotech, focused on the combination of AI works and hands-on lab work aimed at discovering longevity therapeutics; and Rejuve Network, a blockchain-based network of longevity enthusiasts, healthcare practitioners and longevity and AI-oriented scientists, aimed at bringing people, data and other resources together to work toward cures for aging.
Longevity plus AI…plus Blockchain?
The need for blockchain to cure aging may be a little bit less obvious at first than the need for AI — but it becomes totally clear when one thinks about the insatiable need of modern AI algorithms for data.
AI has shown tremendous power to transform data into insight. But often, the biggest challenge in practice is to find the right data to feed into the AI. In the longevity context, this is definitely the case — most relevant biomedical datasets are kept proprietary in Pharma-company databases, and even those that are in principle made publicly accessible are often revealed in practice only to researchers from the right countries and/or affiliated with the right universities, companies or government agencies.
The crazy thing is, of course, the biomedical datasets being hoarded by Big Pharma mostly pertain to the bodies of ordinary medical patients, who very rarely profit at all from the value their data is providing to Big Pharma… and who would, in almost all cases, choose to make encrypted versions of their own medical data freely available to any serious researcher.
Reforming the medical establishment is a huge, though worthy, job. A complementary path is to route around the establishment by collecting data directly from individual people … then pooling this data for AI analytics, using these analytics to discover new therapies, and rewarding the people whose data helped discover these therapies. Rewards can come both as preferential and discounted access to the therapies and as some form of a share of the value generated by selling the therapies to those who need them.
This is the core value proposition of Rejuve Network — which is initially rolling out to network members via the Rejuve Longevity App, which lets users input data about themselves to feed the Rejuve AI mind and, in exchange, to receive both information about their own path to healthy longevity and tokenomic rewards. The data gathered in this way will be stored securely and with proper anonymization and then used to feed AI-powered therapeutics discovery by the scientists at Rejuve Biotech, by Rejuve Network’s internal team, and by other research partners, including researchers who participate in Rejuve Network’s decentralized research collaboration platform, the Generative Cooperative Network.
Rejuve and SingularityNET
From a SingularityNET view, Rejuve Network is important from multiple perspectives. First of all, it helps fulfill our mission to create beneficial AI. As narrow AI verges toward AGI, it’s extremely important for the growing AI to be used for human benefit — not just because human benefit is, well, good, but so the AI has the experience of richly compassionate interaction with its human mind-parents. The Rejuve Network, as it grows, will leverage a host of other SingularityNET projects, from TrueAGI’s extensions of the OpenCog Hyperon system to HyperCycle’s super-AI-optimized blockchain infrastructure and NuNet’s flexible decentralized computing fabric, etc.
Most importantly, it will help create utilization for the AGIX token, which powers the whole SingularityNET ecosystem — already from launch, the Rejuve Longevity App will use the AGIX token to power the Bayes Net model it uses to give the app user feedback on their path to healthy longevity based on the data they’ve input.
For all these reasons, it’s very exciting to see the RJV token — used initially for rewarding data provided by users into the Rejuve Longevity app, with other broader functions to follow — being minted and put out there to the community. I’m very proud of everyone who’s worked together on the Rejuve project for the last few years to get us to this point. And I’m very excited about everything this is going to bring, especially about the very real prospect of eliminating and reducing a lot of human suffering as longevity therapies are discovered and rolled out over the coming years. There’s so much work yet to be done, but the launch of the Rejuve Network represents a significant threshold event in the history of the application of AI and blockchain to the quest to extend human healthspan.
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