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We are offering over $1M in research and development grants through our Deep Funding initiative to advance decentralized, beneficial and benevolent Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Learn more at https://bit.ly/3Y43SDc Submit your proposals at https://lnkd.in/erwyngTh

Our strategic partnership with Tenstorrent will push the boundaries of next-gen hardware and neural-symbolic AI architectures, opening new frontiers for AI applications across industries. The integration of Tenstorrent’s advanced hardware into our AI platforms to optimize neural-symbolic AI workloads is already underway. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e9jsfaj4

$1.25M in Grants to Advance Decentralized, Beneficial and Benevolent AGI Join us this Tuesday, October 29th, 2024, at 5 pm UTC for a new ‘SingularityNET’s Technical Tuesdays’ session to learn more about our $1.25M AGI research and development grants and how you can be a part of the history of AGI/ASI development. During the session, we will discuss: - How our AGI R&D grants help accelerate the development of the OpenCog Hyperon architecture; - The key research directions and development tasks funded through the grants and how each helps advance our AGI R&D roadmap; - Why teams, individual AI researchers, developers, and students should apply—exploring the benefits, access to cutting-edge technology, and career opportunities; - The Deep Funding AI innovation fund and the application process for the AGI R&D grants.

Our CTO, Sergey Shalyapin, took the stage at the Blockchain Life Forum 2024 in Dubai to explore the intersection of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence alongside Vladislav Martynov, General Partner of BR Capital, Kostas Kryptos Chalkias, Co-Founder of Mysten Labs, Tiago Henriques, Head of AI/ML Technology Practice at Google Cloud EMEA, Jerry Z, Co-Founder of Delysium, and Greg Osuri, Founder of Akash Network. During the panel, Sergey discussed the key challenges and opportunities in bringing AI into blockchain technology, noting that while blockchain has successfully evolved to manage micro-level transactions with high throughput, the rapid advancement of AI architectures presents novel integration challenges. A key focus was the fundamental shift in AI computational demands. Sergey contrasted "elementary downstream task solvers", which performed relatively simple inference tasks, with today's monolithic transformer-based architectures that have raised demand to compute demonstrating more general communication skills and, most importantly, with upcoming AGI-class systems that compose multiple AI paradigms. These modern systems combine layers of memory, dynamic workloads, and hybrid neural-symbolic processing — creating workload patterns far more complex than traditional blockchain systems were originally designed to accommodate. Beyond the technical integration challenges, Sergey outlined SingularityNET’s paradigm-shifting vision for AI-blockchain synergy. Rather than maintaining a narrow focus on blockchain's traditional role in raw data management, he called for a transition toward a knowledge-centric architecture. This approach centers on the development of blockchain-powered Knowledge Layers, which he positioned as crucial facilitators in the evolution from current data-driven AI systems toward future knowledge-driven AGI. The concept of Knowledge Layers, as presented by Sergey, represents a sophisticated approach to storing and managing distilled knowledge — highly refined, contextual information extracted from raw data through advanced processing methods. He explained how providing AI systems with access to this pre-processed, structured knowledge enables them to execute complex reasoning tasks more efficiently compared to working with raw data alone. This approach proves particularly valuable for modern AI systems that combine multiple reasoning mechanisms and require rich, contextual information. For those interested in watching the complete panel discussion and gaining deeper insights into the convergence of AI and blockchain technology, the full session recording is available on the Blockchain Life official YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/ewxcuzPi

CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel delivered a keynote at the Decentralized Knowledge Graph Conference held by our partner OriginTrail to discuss the combined values of LLMs and Knowledge Graphs and how they fit into the past and future of AI. Dr. Goertzel began by tracing the evolution of the AI field from its origins in the late 1950s, noting the foundational influence of Norbert Wiener's 1948 book "Cybernetics" which established principles for neural networks and cognitive algorithms in both biological and engineered systems. He highlighted that since AI's inception, two main approaches have coexisted: subsymbolic AI (neural networks) composed of tiny components without clear comprehensible semantics where meaning emerges from learned combinations, and symbolic AI which emerged in the mid-1960s, built with elements having clear semantic meaning, such as explicit representations using nodes and connections. The distinction, he explained, reflects both biological reality (neural networks resembling brain function) and human cognitive advancement through abstract symbol systems like science, language, and mathematics. The current AI landscape, as described by Dr. Goertzel, shows remarkable progress in subsymbolic AI, particularly with Transformer Neural Networks and Conventional Neural Networks achieving unprecedented success through increased computational power and data availability. However, he pointed out significant limitations in current neural systems, including their difficulty in distinguishing imagination from reality, limited creativity beyond surface-level pattern combinations, and inability to make fundamental inventions beyond their training data. Looking toward the future, Dr. Goertzel suggested we are potentially just two to seven years away from achieving AGI, a term he popularized in the early 2000s. The path forward, he argued, lies in combining symbolic and subsymbolic approaches. This includes augmenting deep neural networks with logical reasoning capabilities, implementing Knowledge Graphs alongside deep neural networks, and developing more fundamental creative generation algorithms. He emphasized that Knowledge Graphs represent the most scalable and flexible approach to representing symbolic knowledge, making them crucial for bridging the gap between symbolic and subsymbolic systems. The next breakthrough, he predicted, will come from integrating these approaches rather than simply scaling up existing transformer models. Dr. Goertzel concluded by addressing the broader implications of AI development, highlighting the importance of developing AGI in a decentralized, beneficial, and ethical way. He warned against allowing a small elite group to control AGI development, advocating instead for a decentralized infrastructure to benefit humanity and other sentient beings. This ethical consideration, he noted, is as crucial as the technical challenges in advancing toward AGI and, shortly after, ASI.

Join us this Tuesday, October 29th, 2024, at 5:00 pm UTC for a new ‘SingularityNET’s Technical Tuesdays’ session to learn more about our $1.25M AGI research and development grants and how you can be a part of the history of AGI/ASI development. During the session, we will discuss: - How our AGI R&D grants help accelerate the development of the OpenCog Hyperon architecture; - The key research directions and development tasks funded through the grants and how each helps advance our AGI R&D roadmap; - Why teams, individual AI researchers, developers, and students should apply—exploring the benefits, access to cutting-edge technology, and career opportunities; - The Deep Funding AI innovation fund and the application process for the AGI R&D grants. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - Request for Proposals for SingularityNET Deep Funding Hyperon AGI Research and Development Tasks: https://bit.ly/3Y43SDc - Deep Funding Portal: https://lnkd.in/erwyngTh We hope to see you there!

Not only do I love Dr. Ben Goertzel's team at SingularityNET, I love their mission and the way the intend to make the world a better place. This is why I am so excited about Tenstorrent partnering with SingularityNET to accelerate the evolution of AGI. Also - I included a picture of Dr. Goertzel and Jim Keller -- a true meeting of the minds. Check out the details in the article below: https://lnkd.in/gZWckuhD

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Apply for $1.25M in grants to advance decentralized, beneficial and benevolent Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research and development via our OpenCog Hyperon architecture. Submit your proposals today: https://lnkd.in/erwyngTh

The SingularityNET Foundation is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Tenstorrent, a leader in high-performance computing architecture, to develop AGI-optimized hardware and software architectures. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ddswhT_i