SingularityNET
Whitelist Opportunities Available: NOW OVERVIEWSingularityNET is the first and only platform that allows AIs to cooperate and coordinate at scale. This removes one of the major limiting factors to AI growth today — the lack of interoperability — which severely restricts the ability to leverage the strengths and capabilities of individual AIs.
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*Gq-b0Ol9cQHj6lpGkBVITg.jpegMass adoption of AI technology has begun. But with nearly every industry racing to develop and deploy AI-powered technologies, the biggest growth is yet to come. According to Transparency Market Research, the global artificial intelligence market is projected to grow from $233.8 billion in 2017 to $3.1 trillion in 2025.
The biggest gains will be experienced by AIs that can learn from each other, leveraging external datasets and capabilities. There is currently no platform that enables this type of interoperability and coordination. Our team of AI veterans knows first-hand how much businesses and their developers crave a way to monetize and leverage the collective capabilities and resources of external AIs.
With SingularityNET, companies, organizations, and individuals can empower their AI agents to participate in markets, buying and selling goods and services. No longer must AIs exist in silos, only capable of operating within a specific company, infrastructure, or industry.
AIs can use SingularityNET markets to buy rare and valuable datasets or analytical capabilities that previously needed to be developed in-house from scratch. AIs can also use SingularityNET markets to monetize their own assets, creating massive value from proprietary information, algorithms, and functionality.
TEAMThis is a major market opportunity, and we’ve attracted the top minds in multiple fields to our development team.
We have globally respected experts with PhDs in theoretical physics, probabilistic logic, and mathematics — not to mention decades of combined experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Our AI team’s skills have been honed via building the OpenCog open-source general intelligence platform and doing AI contracts for a long list of clients including Cisco, Huawei, DARPA, and IARPA. Our blockchain team has built expertise through building and launching dozens of blockchain systems and tokens, including Swytch, Heavycoin, and Eurocoin.
Core Team:Dr. Ben Goertzel, Founder & Project LeadDr. Ben Goertzel is a mathematician, polymath, and renowned father of Artificial General Intelligence. As the CEO of SingularityNET, he oversees network development, project staff, and organizational partnerships.
After receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics from Temple University, Dr. Goertzel amassed one of the industry’s leading résumés, establishing a respected record of innovation and project execution. Known globally for his achievements and thought leadership in the AI field, Dr. Goertzel has published hundreds of peer-reviewed papers on artificial general intelligence.
Beyond SingularityNET, Dr. Goertzel is the leader of the OpenCog AGI project, organizer of the prestigious annual AGI conference series, Chief Scientist of Aidyia Holdings, Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, and Chairman of Novamente. He has developed AI-powered trading and sentiment analysis for Webmind, Clarium Capital, StockMood, Cerrid Capital, and Chaikin Trading.
Dr. David Hanson, Robotics LeadDr. David Hanson leads robotics development at SingularityNET, as well as providing general vision and oversight. He’s one of the world’s foremost experts in humanoid robotics, having made numerous contributions to the field. His latest creation — Sophia — has been lauded as the world’s most expressive robot. Sophia has been taking time out of her busy schedule to serve as the humanoid spokesperson for SingularityNET.
Dr. Hanson received his Ph.D. in aesthetic studies, interactive arts, and engineering from the University of Texas. He currently serves as founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics.
Sophia, Humanoid Spokesperson & Core Node for SingularityNET
Developed by our partner, Hanson Robotics, Sophia is the most advanced expressive robot in the world. She has also become a media darling, having given numerous interviews to multiple media outlets, sang in a concert, and even graced the cover of one of the top fashion magazines. Her interviews have generated billions of views and social media interactions.
She has also shown her potential in business, having met face-to-face with key decision makers across industries including banking, insurance, auto manufacturing, property development, media, and entertainment. In addition, she has appeared onstage as a panel member and presenter in high-level conferences, covering how robotics and artificial intelligence will become a prevalent part of people's lives.
Sophia will be a core node of the SingularityNET’s blockchain. Her intelligence will be plugged into the network for everyone’s benefit. Sophia’s mind will be constantly fed with new content from SingularityNET, while at the same time helping to power the network with her human-like intelligence.
Cassio Pennachin, Chief Technology OfficerCassio leads software development at SingularityNET. Dr. Goertzel’s close collaborator on numerous projects since 1998, he holds degrees in both computer science and business. Along with Dr. Goertzel, he is the original software architect of the OpenCog AGI platform.
Cassio has served a leading role in a number of AI projects, ranging from back and middle office automation to quantitative and news-based price prediction. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed papers on artificial general intelligence and machine learning.
Simone Giacomelli, Blockchain LeadLead by Simone, our blockchain team has decades of combined experience building, testing, and launching crypto projects for both the private and public sectors. Simone brings extensive knowledge of data-driven design, decentralized organizations, and crypto technologies.
Previous projects include Swytch, Heavycoin, Eurocoin, and dozens of other blockchain systems and tokens.
Ruiting Lian, Natural Language Processing LeadRuiting is the Director of Natural Language Processing at Hanson Robotics. She is a publishing academic with an expertise in computational linguistics, and holds a PhD from Xiamen University in Hong Kong.
Betelhem Dessie, Benefit Projects LeadBetty is the founder of Anyone Can Code (ACC) project in Ethiopia, a platform for young adults and kids to learn 21st century technology and skills. She has spoken on advanced technology for social good at the Milken Women Leaders Forum in Singapore. She has been coding since the age of 10, and is Ethiopia’s leading youth technology education entrepreneur.
Mitchell Loureiro, Token & Marketing LeadMitchell has a proven track record in building business strategies and exposure for next generation technologies. He has created open source communities of hundreds of
thousands of people, raised funds for multiple noteworthy blockchain projects, and created over hundreds of millions in market value for decentralized technology. He is kickstarting SingularityNET marketing and business development.
In addition to our core team, we also have more than 35 junior and senior level support staff, with experience ranging from venture capital to AI. Our advisory board is also staffed with industry veterans from AI research to project management at Fortune 500 companies.
Advisors Dr. Trent McConaghy, CTO at BigchainDB & IPDBTrent is a computer scientist and blockchain expert. He is the Founder of the Ocean decentralized data exchange protocol & network, Founder & CTO of BigchainDB, Founder
of IPDB blockchain database protocol & network, contributor to the COALA IP protocol, Founder & CTO of Solido Design Automation, and advisor to the Estonian E-residency Program.
Dr. Jim Rutt, ex-CTO at Thomson-ReutersJim is a Trustee at and past Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute, and the first CTO at Thomson-Reuters. He is one of the thinkers behind BigChainDB, the highly scalable
blockchain architecture. He was CEO of Network Solutions, which operated the .com, .net, and .org domain namespaces on the Internet until its acquisition by Verisign in 2000. He has launched and exited 7 companies. Jim is a graduate of MIT and conducts research on consciousness and AI.
Dr. Anton Kolonin, CTO at Aigents GroupAnton is a research scientist who leads the analysis, design and development of complex distributed applications. He is the Founder and CTO of Aigents Group, and has previously served as CTO of ZdorovieOnline, Software Development Manager and Product Lead at Quest Software. He is the creator of the 'Proof of Reputation' consensus mechanism and he will be designing the reputation system in the SingularityNET cognitive-economic logic. Dr. Nil Geisweiller, AI Scientist at Novamente Nil is a research scientist at Novamente, and is currently working on building the machiner for matching different SingularityNET APIs in a logically consistent way. He works on AGI and evolutionary learning, and has previously made innovations in probabilistic modeling of macroscopic bio-chemical reactions.
Dr. Alexey Potapov, Head of Lab at Vavilov State Optical InstituteAlexey S. Potapov is Principal Investigator of the AIDEUS project aimed at creation of safe AGI. He is also Head of Lab of Learnable Image Analysis Systems at Vavilov State Optical Institute in Russia, and Professor of Computer Photonics and Videomatics at NRU ITMO in Russia, where he gives educates Russia's leading minds on artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning.
Dr. Linas Vepstas, Research Scientist at Hanson RoboticsLinas is a Research Scientist at Hanson Robotics and is working on the OpenCog representation SingularityNET's smart contracts. He is interested in developing Artificial
General Intelligence (AGI) and actively works on related components, including natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), knowledge representation (KR), robotics, and their theoretical, mathematical underpinnings.
Dr. Eberhard Schoneburg, Lead AI Advisor at PriceWaterhouseCoopersEberhard is currently the lead AI advisor to PwC in Hong Kong. Prior to this, Eberhard was the founder and CEO of publicly-traded Artificial Life Inc., a pioneer in artificial life and artificial intelligence technology. Eberhard pioneered the chat bots and robo advisory fields in AI and the use of Deep Learning and genetic algorithms in finance. He was also a professor for industrial applications of artificial intelligence at the University of Applied Sciences of Furtwangen, Germany. He launched over 20 AI companies in Europe, USA and Asia and has successfully implemented over 100 AI projects and products during his 35 years lasting career in AI. He has published 5 lecture books
about AI and related fields and published over 100 AI related articles. Eberhard is a regular speaker about AI and also an investor in AI start-ups.
Edward Vali, M.Sc., General Partner at Accelerate Venture PartnersEdward Vali is the General Partner at Accelerate Venture Partners and an Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Under his leadership, Accelerate Venture Partners was one of the first institutional parties to enter the blockchain technologies.
PartnershipsWith one of the most experienced teams in crypto, SingularityNET has attracted partnerships with other blockchain and AI projects, such as
Hanson Robotics,
Economic Space Agency,
Humanity+,
d10e,
AGI Society,
Moonshot, and more. The
SingularityNET platform is being built on
OpenCog technology, currently in use by
more than 50 global companies with
over $250 billion in combined revenues, including
Cisco Systems and
Huawei Technologies.
We’ve also collaborated with more than 100 industry experts across various technical and operational fields, many of whom contributed to the core infrastructure that SingularityNET will run on.
ABOUT THE AGI COINSingularityNET aims to become the key protocol for networking AI and machine learning tools to form a coordinated Artificial General Intelligence.
To accomplish this, the SingularityNET platform must be powered by a utility token that is tailored to enabling its core functionality. The SingularityNET token AGI is structured to promote four key mechanisms detailed below, including transactions, settlements, incentives, and governance.
AGI COIN FEATURES1. TransactionsBlockchain technology provides an ideal tool for managing network transactions on SingularityNET due to its transactional and bookkeeping advantages. But a blockchain-based framework needs to be designed to allow AI Agents to interact with each other and external customers. We tailored the AGI token for this purpose. It enables interoperability (the network will be able to interface with multiple blockchains and network infrastructures), modularity (flexible network capabilities make it possible to create custom topologies), scalability (resilient applications can be built with near zero transaction costs) and data sovereignty (access is validated through smart contracts and the blockchain).
2.SettlementsWithout the AGI token, AI agents would need access to the native tokens of other protocols in order to transact in their networks and interact with their services. This becomes onerously complex when integrating multiple goods, services, and agents.
With the AGI token, network users can transact on the market place from thousands of contracts, technologies, and protocols. All transactions occur on a single, publicly-auditable transaction ledger. This creates a plug-and-play experience for AI developers. Buyers can easily integrate any external resource or capability, while sellers can seamlessly monetize any asset.
3. IncentivesThe open, decentralized nature of SingularityNET gives it more potential for dynamic, effective intelligence than any more closed, monolithic system could possess. To take advantage of this, we’re building incentive mechanisms into the network to promote to creation, curation, and distribution of AI services. For example, AGI tokens will be distributed as rewards for contributing utility to the network.
4. GovernanceMarket transactions may occur between AI Agents in the network, or between external entities and AI Agents. In order to foster a vibrant market, SingularityNET will not charge any transaction fees. Rather, network operations will be funded democratically, via decisions of network participants to direct a fraction of newly created tokens toward entities providing and enhancing network infrastructure and associated tools.
TOKEN SALETermsTargeted sale date: December 8th, 2017
Total possible tokens: 1,000,000,000 AGI
Total tokens distributed to public: 500,000,000 AGI
Token launch length: 24 hours
Hard cap: $36 million USD
Use of FundsThe funds acquired in the token sale event will be distributed to ensure the long-term viability of the network.
The allocation will be broadly split between Network Infrastructure (the protocol), IOT (sensors and hardware), AI, and business development.
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/0*rD-lXLkEj8i9_kcg.Guaranteed Token DistributionThe token sale will distribute
50% of the initial supply to the public.
20% will be reserved to incentivize early users, developers, and partners who want to participate with SingularityNET.
18% will be held for core team members and early contributors. All of these tokens are subject to a two-year vesting schedule
8% will be held by the SingularityNET Foundation to ensure continual development of the platform.
The remaining
4% will be reserved for bounty programs that improve the effectiveness and security of the network.
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