SingularityNET Latest Ecosystem Updates: April 2023
The Latest updates from the SingularityNET Ecosystem, including the Decentralized Governance Summit and Supervisory Council Ideation, new Neural-Symbolic LLM “Zarqa” and Consensus news…
Greetings Singularitarians,
We are excited to bring you all the news from SingularityNET and the Ecosystem from April!
Exciting progress is happening across the projects, we had a significant presence at Consensus, and the message of the decentralization of AI is gaining momentum and enthusiasm in the global narrative. We also hosted our first Decentralization Summit, gathering leaders in the decentralization space, as well as experts in our own organization and ecosystem, to discuss the next critical steps of decentralizing SingularityNET itself. As Ben pointed out, building on blockchain isn’t sufficient to be ‘decentralized’; ownership of the platform by the global community through a DAO is critical to true decentralization. And until that happens, SingularityNET has not achieved its mission.
To that end, our first step in this decentralizing initiative is outlining the future role of the Supervisory Council so that elections can be held. This critical body will play an intermediary role between the Foundation and the future decentralized body — and the community's input on the form and function of this council will begin to define the ultimate organization.
Please read the blog about the in-progress Supervisory Council governance action, and join the ideation portal to review community input and share your perspective.
We look forward to hearing your contributions!
Latest SingularityNET & Ecosystem Updates and Events —
· Consensus 2023
· Decentralized Governance Summit
· Zarqa: SingularityNET’s Neural-Symbolic LLM
· Mindplex Podcasts and Pubcasts in April
· Ecosystem News
· Inside SingularityNET — Ecosystem Leader’s Meeting, April 2023
· SingularityNET — In the News
· About SingularityNET
Consensus 2023
SingularityNET was well represented at the Consensus 2023 crypto conference in Austin, Texas at the end of April. Ben Goertzel and Janet Adams, CEO and COO of SingularityNET, were joined by many of the ecosystem projects — Cogito CEO Cloris Chen, SingularityDAO Co-Founders Marcello Mari and Mario Casiraghi of SingularityDAO, and Kennedy Schaal CEO of Rejuve.Bio. The attendees represented SingularityNET and the ecosystem at a variety of events and appearances to broaden awareness of the importance of decentralized AI and the opportunities for AI and blockchain to amplify one another.
- Must-watch — Ben’s Panel, with Edward Snowden, on AI and Data Privacy:
Dr. Ben Goertzel joined Edward Snowden, the President of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, for an insightful panel exploring “What the AI Explosion Means for Data Privacy.” During the discussion, Ben shared his perspective on the growing influence of technology giants like Google data privacy. He noted that while governments may have access to large databases, big tech possesses the technological prowess to harness this data.
Despite this observation, both Ben and Snowden remained optimistic about the future. They laid out a vision for a future in which AI technologies are developed in a decentralized manner, with individuals and communities having greater control over their data and how it’s used. Ben referred to this as a future of “sousveillance,” a term coined by David Brin in his book “The Transparent Society.”
- Community at Consensus — SingularityNET-Cardano Meetup:
SingularityNET and the Ecosystem had the pleasure of co-sponsoring a SingularityNET-and-Cardano community meetup hosted and live-streamed by Big Pey and Atrium Lab during Consensus 2023. Ben and Janet took the stage to update and share highlights of our collaboration with Cardano and discuss some of our ambitious AI development plans.
Ben was later joined by Cloris, Marcello, and Mario for a panel on the “Future of DeFi” to explore the synergies between AI and DeFi and how they could help democratize wealth management. The panelists also discussed the immense potential of Cogito and SingularityDAO and how they can revolutionize the decentralized financial landscape using SingularityNET-powered AI.
The meetup had an enthusiastic turnout of community members at the live event, and the live stream was well attended — and recorded so that everyone can have a taste of the experience!
- Crypto AM
SingularityNET was excited to be invited to the Crypto AM event in Austin, with Ben and Janet presenting a Showcase of the project and ecosystem. The event was a great success and provided the opportunity to highlight the exciting developments and innovations within our ecosystem to a broad audience alongside other industry leaders in the crypto space.
- Desdemona & the Jam Galaxy Band Performance
Desdemona got a chance to show off her AI vocals and lyrics at a satellite performance for the Jam Galaxy band during Consensus. The robot-led band brings their message of AI-enhanced creative collaboration, as well as the power of AI plus blockchain as a future for the creative economy. Jam Galaxy is in the final stages of preparing their Artist-and-Fan Portal, which will allow musicians to directly connect with their fans instead of through middlemen and intermediaries — creating a whole new relationship for creatives and their supporters.
Decentralized Governance Summit
The first SingularityNET Decentralized Governance Summit marked a milestone in our progress toward shaping the SingularityNET-Community-DAO and laid the groundwork, processes, and tooling to foster community participation and decentralized decision-making.
The Summit gathered many speakers from across the DAOspace and beyond. Ecosystem experts and pioneers in the field of decentralization came together to share a wealth of knowledge from their research and their own experiences in decentralizing organizations:
- The CEO of the SingularityNET Foundation, Dr. Ben Goertzel, delivered an impassioned opening keynote address, underlying the importance of decentralized AGI governance and highlighting how we are putting our foundational values of decentralization, benevolence, democracy, and inclusiveness into action across the organization. He praised the SingularityNET Foundation as an institution and explained how it could evolve into a single amorphous organization by bringing in people from diverse backgrounds to address technological and societal challenges. As Ben stated:
- “The odds of broad human benefit coming out of the Singularity are higher if it’s not orchestrated by some entity that is intrinsically motivated by something besides broad human benefit.”
- The esteemed Chair of London Futurists, David Wood, explained how decentralization could be a pathway for creating a sustainable, open-ended, evolving social framework.
- Chair of the SingularityNET Supervisory Council, David Orban, joined Esther Galfalvi, our Decentralization Program lead, to present an overview of our first “Decentralization Report,” covering how to successfully lead transformative initiatives in DAOs to achieve efficiency in coordination & technical governance.
- Anton Kolonin, AI and blockchain architect at SingularityNET, explained how the Proof-of-Reputation consensus mechanism could be used as a weighted liquid democracy approach in decentralized systems.
- Dr. Mihaela Ulieru, Chief AI Alchemist at SingularityNET, gave an excellent presentation about the principles of organic governance and highlighted the importance of community involvement in decentralized ecosystems.
- Dr. Deborah Duong, CTO of RejuveAI, AGI Researcher, and Computational Social Scientist, spoke inspirationally about how we can create a just society through algorithms of decentralization.
- CPO of SingularityNET, Jan Horlings, shared an overview of our community-driven Deep Funding program, decentralized governance experiments, and the implementation of our reputation system.
- The CEO of Input Output Global, Charles Hoskinson, joined Dr. Ben Goertzel for a fireside chat on the future of AI and decentralized governance and explored some of the collaborative opportunities between Cardano and SingularityNET.
- Kriss Baird, Product Manager at Input Output Global, joined us to share some valuable lessons to learn from Cardano’s Project Catalyst.
- Esther Galfalvi was joined by decentralized internet researcher and advocate Connor Spelliscy, for an insightful Q&A session on the DAO research collective.
- Betelhem Dessie, Co-Founder and CEO of iCog Anyone Can Code, emphasized the importance of having a diversity of perspectives and decentralizing education for the development of beneficial AI and AGI.
- Grace Rachmany, Co-Founder of PricelessDAO, highlighted the missing organizational functions for DAOs and discussed approaches to solutions.
- In an impassioned discussion, David Orban, Chair, and Penny Wong, Member, of the SingularityNET Supervisory Council, discussed the past, present, and future of the Council and how it supports decision-making based on our foundational principles and puts them into practice across the ecosystem.
- Our Community Lead, Peter Elfrink, was joined by SingularityNET Ambassadors Felix Weber and Tevo Saks to discuss our Ambassador Program and outline the importance and advantages of bottom-up governance and community involvement.
- During a presentation of the SingularityNET Community DAO, our CPO, Jan Horlings, signaled our will to run the Foundation as a completely decentralized institution, leveraging the voices of the community.
- The CEO of Menagerie, Wulf Kaal, explained the concept of decentralization as a process and how his platform helps DAOs with community building, organization, guild creation, and more.
- David Ernst, the CEO of Secure Internet Voting (SIV), shared some valuable insights into the principles of liquid democracy for DAOs.
- Dor Garbash, Head of Ecosystem at Mina Foundation, focused on lessons learned from decentralized innovation.
Zarqa: SingularityNET’s Neural-Symbolic LLM
This month we unveiled Zarqa, the next generation of Large Language Models infused with Neural-Symbolic techniques for more intelligent and reliable AI. Zarqa is designed from the outset to achieve human and superhuman levels of creativity, logical reasoning, and decision-making, combining massive multimodal neural networks native to logical calculations and expressions with a symbolic core capable of working with grounded and relevant knowledge.
Watch this in-depth AMA session with Janet Adams, Sergey Shalyapin, Dr. Matt Iklé, and Dr. Alexey Potapov.
Mindplex Podcasts and Pubcasts in April
Don’t forget to check out the newest content on Mindplex Magazine, including Ben’s recent article on Future of Life Institute’s proposal to pause giant AI experiments: Don’t Shut Down AI Development — Open It Up For Real
→ Mindplex Podcast Episode 4:
- Episode 4 of the Mindplex Podcast — Cory Doctorow joined co-hosts Ben Goertzel, Lisa Rein, and Desdemona Robot to discuss the topic of his latest book, “Chokepoint Capitalism,” which he co-authored with Rebecca Giblin. This was an opportunity to discuss how big businesses captured the creative markets, from publishing to music distribution to film distribution. Cory shared the systematic ways corporations use “chokepoints” to create an hourglass-shaped market, with customers at one end, creators at the other, and corporations in the middle. He also explained how this anti-competitive cycle is resulting in lower prices for consumers but also lower wages for workers, creating a cycle that’s giving corporations more and more power over the marketplace.
- SingularityNET’s 4th episode livestream Mindplex Pubcast — AI met longevity research during this Pubcast, which featured Kennedy Schaal, the CEO of Rejuve.BIO. For the last 15 of those 18 years, Kennedy has been working with Ben Goertzel to study, develop, and refine the long-lived Methuselah Fly, a type of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), that has been selectively bred over hundreds of generations to live at least 5 times longer than wild-type flies.
→ Mindplex Podcast Episode 5:
- In episode 5 of the Mindplex Podcast, co-hosts Lisa Rein, Dr. Ben Goertzel, and Desdemona the Robot explored the transition to a GameB society with special guest Jim Rutt of The Jim Rutt Show. The GameB movement was born out of a need for change from the current self-destructive and unsustainable Game A system, which is believed to be coming to an end soon. GameB aims to define a new social operating system that is in harmony with the limits of the ecosystem and the nature of human beings. The episode highlights the need for change and how it can be achieved.
- SingularityNET’s Pubcast watch party for Episode 5 featured a thought-provoking discussion with guest Jim Rutt about the concept of Game B and the idea of network attractors in complex systems like human society, and how to prepare for potential collapse scenarios in the future.
Ecosystem News
HyperCycle
Token Generation Event and Community Launchpad Event — see all the details about HyperCycle’s Layer 0++ ledgerless blockchain, and read about our journey to an AI-capable blockchain. Don’t miss this!
Cogito Protocol
The Cogito Protocol team announced the release of their highly anticipated GCOIN demo, available using a PreProd testnet environment on Cardano.
NuNet
NuNet announced the launch of its public alpha testnet release. The release features a staged testing approach, which is designed to ensure that each component of the platform is working correctly before moving on to the next stage.
Inside SingularityNET — Ecosystem Leader’s Meeting, April 2023
For a comprehensive overview of project progress, expectations, and next step, watch all the project leader updates in the April “Inside SingularityNET” ecosystem leaders’ meeting. Here is a summary of what the projects shared during the meeting:
- SingularityNET COO Janet Adams, and CTO, Sergey Shalyapin, discussed Zarqa, the next generation of LLMs, and explained what it brings in terms of performance, reasoning capabilities, and intelligence.
- Dr. Robert Werko, the COO of True AGI, shared a status update on AGI-as-a-Service R&D, along with the progress made in developing select MVPs to meet the needs of lead users.
- Sergey Shalyapin, the CTO of SingularityNET, shared the latest on Cardano Staking and our work on integrating AI Services into messenger and social networks.
- Dr. Matt Iklé, CSO at SingularityNET, discussed the OpenCog Hyperon development roadmap and explained how we’re integrating the latest software and hardware breakthroughs into our tech stack to scale to #AGI.
- SingularityNET Chief AGI Officer, Dr. Alexey Potapov, shared a status update on the development of the OpenCog Hyperon dialogue system and speeding up MeTTa performance.
- Mario Casiraghi, Co-Founder & CFO of SingularityDAO, highlighted the importance of HyperCycle to our ecosystem and discussed all things Dynasets, #SDAO PV2, updated whitepaper, quantitative solutions, and more.
- The CEO of Cogito Protocol, Cloris Chen, shared a great update on the project’s remarkable progress toward the release of their demo and offered a sneak peek into what’s ahead.
- Hruy Tsegaye, CEO, and Conor O’Higgins, COO, of Mindplex, highlighted the growth of their Magazine & Podcast and shared some of the exciting upcoming developments, including the development of an AI-based content moderation system.
- Deborah Duong, CTO of Rejuve.AI, provided insights into the preparations for the official launch of the Rejuve Longevity app and explained how they’re augmenting the capabilities of their probabilistic logic Bayesian net service: BayesianExpert.
- Esther Galfalvi, Decentralization Program Lead at SingularityNET, highlighted the importance of our inaugural Decentralized Governance Summit, which brought together community members, experts, and leaders to explore the topic and path toward progressive decentralization.
- The CEO of Rejuve.Bio, Kennedy Schaal, highlighted her team’s recent advancements in longevity research and discussed their recent experiment extracting DNA and RNA from long-lived Methuselah flies.
- Dianne Krouse, the CEO of Jam Galaxy, shared an exciting update on the project’s progress toward developing their Platform, new hires, upcoming events, and more.
- Dr. Kabir Veitas, the CEO of Nunet, shared his team’s plans for Q2, including the releases of their Public Alpha & Decentralized GPU for ML use case.
- Edwin Eyre, Partnerships Manager at SingularityNET, discussed some of our recently announced partnerships and offered a sneak peek into what’s in the pipeline.
- Haley Lowy, Marketing Lead at SingularityNET, highlighted some of our initiatives over the last few weeks and gave an outlook on how we’re working to ensure our flourishing ecosystem's continued growth .
- Peter Elfrink, Community Lead at SingularityNET, shared the latest on our Ambassador program, designed to strengthen and grow the ecosystem.
- Jan Horlings, CPO, shared the latest on our community-driven program, Deep Funding, and discussed our preparations to hold a second governance event to explore improvement opportunities.
- Renata Mowforth, Head of HR at SingularityNET, shared our open positions and provided an update on the new talents who have joined our team to support the ecosystem's growth.
SingularityNET — In the News
- Dr. Ben Goertzel joined CoinDesk at Consensus to discuss the significance of decentralized AI developments and his reaction to tech executives calling for a pause in AI developments.
- In a recent interview on The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington, Dr. Ben Goertzel talked about everything AGI: decentralized rollout, OpenCog Hyperon, the limitations of current LLMs, music & creativity, and more.
- Ben delves into the cognitive workings of post-Singularity intelligences and discusses the initial goal system for a self-modifying, self-improving AGI.
- Our COO, Janet Adams, joined Brian Rose on London Real to discuss Zarqa, the next generation of neural-symbolic LLMs, recent AI trends, and the path to developing beneficial AGI.
- Dr. Ben Goertzel spoke at the H+ Academy Roundtable on advances in AI, GPT-4, and the “Open Letter” to pause giant AI experiments. Panelists included: Robin Hanson, Max More, Anders Sandberg, Natasha Vita-More, and Peter Voss.
- Dr. Ben Goertzel shared his perspective on “What can blockchains do to ensure fairness?” in a recent article by CoinTelegraph.
- Dr. Ben Goertzel joined David Orban, Managing Advisor of “Beyond Enterprises” and Chairman of the #SingularityNET Supervisory Council, to weigh the role of blockchain in enabling decentralized AGI.
About SingularityNET
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