SingularityNET’s Bold Move: Leveraging a Supercomputer Network to Achieve Artificial General Intelligence
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SingularityNET is betting on a network of powerful supercomputers to get us to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), with the first one set to whir into action this September.
While today’s AI excels in specific areas – think GPT-4 composing poetry or DeepMind’s AlphaFold predicting protein structures – it’s still miles away from genuine human-like intelligence.
“While the novel neural-symbolic AI approaches developed by the SingularityNET AI team decrease the need for data, processing and energy somewhat relative to standard deep neural nets, we still need significant supercomputing facilities,” SingularityNET CEO Ben Goertzel explained to LiveScience in a recent written statement.
Enter SingularityNET’s ambitious plan: a “multi-level cognitive computing network” designed to host and train the incredibly complex AI architectures required for AGI. Picture deep neural networks that mirror the workings of the human brain, vast language models trained on massive datasets, and systems that integrate human-like behaviors such as speech and movement with multimedia outputs.
The realization of such advanced technology is costly. The initial supercomputer, expected to be operational by early 2025, will combine leading-edge components: Nvidia GPUs, AMD processors, Tenstorrent server racks — encompassing all the latest in technology.
Our new #AGI Supercomputer is set to begin operations in September with the first section anticipated to finish by late 2024 or early 2025, subject to supplier delivery schedules — Via @LiveScience https://t.co/SegFiMR9II
This, Goertzel asserts, represents not merely a technological advance but a philosophical one as well: “A paradigm shift is unfolding before us towards continuous learning, effortless generalization, and reflexive AI self-modification.”
To manage this distributed network and its precious data, SingularityNET has developed OpenCog Hyperon, an open-source software framework specifically designed for AI systems. Think of it as the conductor trying to make sense of a symphony played across multiple concert halls.
But SingularityNET isn’t keeping all this brainpower to itself. Reminiscent of arcade tokens, users will purchase access to the supercomputer network with the AGIX token on blockchains like Ethereum and Cardano and contribute data to the collective pool—fuelling further AGI development.
With experts like DeepMind’s Shane Legg predicting human-level AI by 2028, the race is on. Only time will tell if this global network of silicon brains will birth the next great leap in artificial intelligence.
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