It has been 30 years since computer scientist Ben Goertzel wrote his first line of AI code, convinced that artificial intelligence should be decentralized. Now, as the world approaches the Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), which leads this victory can have deep consequences for the future of mankind.
Talking to Cointelegraph at a consensus conference in Toronto, Canada, Goertzel said, “We are likely to launch AGI who can think and generalize beyond training and programming for the next one to three years.”
His project, Singularitynet, is a decentralized ecosystem that builds a global market for AI services. At the same time, that -tecure of cooperation Mind Network and Filecoin Foundation, Invested $ 53 million In a modular supercomputer dedicated to decentralized AGI, and completed a token merger with ocean protocols and fetch.ai to unite efforts in the decentralized development of AI.
In 2024, Goertzel founded the artificial Superintelligence Alliance, the world’s largest open-source initiative dedicated to decentralized AGI.
The SingularityNet and the ASI Alliance are “probably the only serious AGI R&D team out of Big Tech, certainly united in the crypto space, and I don’t mean any partial against others doing cool AI things in the crypto space,” Goertzel said.
For Goertzel, these milestones represent a return to the first principles. After decades spent the development of AI and champion of decentralization, the wider world of tech is finally getting, becoming once radical ideas among drivers of multi-trillion-dollar industries.
The substance behind decentralization
“In ’93, ’94, ’95, it became clear to me that AI should be decentralized,” Goertzel said.
He wrote the first Decentralized Ai Code next year using a Java beta version, then his first AI company was established in New York in 1997.
At this time, the Internet Goertzel is self -employed is decentralized, so it seems natural that AI should be too.
“What I didn’t see before was that the internet would be centralized, in fact, because at that point the Internet was really decentralized,” he said.
The subsequent evolution of the Internet is watered by the foundation of decentralization. “Later, what happened, you have Google, you have Facebook, you have Tencent – you have these companies that make a huge centralized internet glass in these massive data centers,” he said.
However, for the next jump in AGI, Goertzel sees decentralization as a careful preservation against monopolization and misuse of technology. That principle is emerged in the architecture of singularitynet, hyperon, and upcoming ASI chainA modular blockchain designed for decentralized AI.
His argument is that the AGI must be decentralized from the ground up, not adopted later, if it is to benefit humanity rather than serve concentrated power.
“The post-surgery method may differ depending on whether the decentralized ecosystem plays a role or not,” he said, and added:
“We hope that we, in collaboration with other decentralized teams, is the first or among the first to happen.”
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A short foray on decentralized money
Perhaps because of his anarchist leaning and the desire to “make the anarchism real in cyberspace,” Goertzel explored the idea of decentralized money in the 90s.
As the interesting sounds like, Goertzel and his friends concluded that transaction hours will be very slow and expensive, which is not practical.
Only a few decades later, a person or creature named Satoshi Nakamoto created the first successful implementation of decentralized currency known as Bitcoin (Btc). Especially, its transactions are still slow and expensive – perhaps by design or because of its growing popularity – so Goertzel’s early doubt has not made a completely wrong.
He also admitted that, at that time, he and his friends were “not good enough in business to hit the idea of launching money, selling drugs and guns online and so on as a business model.”
Maybe he’s half-joking on a nod to Darknet Marketplace Silk Roadthat enabled unknown transactions using Bitcoin until it was seized by authorities in 2013.
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