TL/DR

The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance, formed by Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, Ocean Protocol and CUDOS, are building a decentralized AI ecosystem to accelerate the development of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) and ASI (Artificial Superintelligence). This Alliance aims to democratize AI. Thereby making it accessible to everyone and ensuring that it ultimately benefits humanity as a whole.

Introduction

Get in the supercar, strap in and let’s race down the highway of the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance. We're about to dive headfirst into the world of decentralized AI! Forget everything you thought you knew about the future of artificial intelligence, because the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance is here to democratize, incentivise and nurture the development of truly disruptive technology by keeping humanity on the same page as far as the critical role of decentralization.

This isn't just another technology boy band; it's a full-blown mindset shift, from us versus them, to us AND them. ASI is creating a world where we can solve problems intuitively and cooperatively. Imagine a world where AI isn't controlled by a handful of mega-corporations, but is instead developed and governed by a global community. That's the vision behind ASI, and trust me, it's as exciting as it sounds.

Understanding the ASI Alliance

The Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance is a collective formed by Fetch.ai (FET), SingularityNET (AGIX), and Ocean Protocol (OCEAN). The ASI Alliance represents a significant shift toward a decentralized AI ecosystem, offering an alternative to AI development dominated by big tech. By pooling their resources and expertise, Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol aim to foster innovation, transparency, and inclusivity in the development of advanced AI technologies. As the largest open-sourced, independent entity in AI research and development, the ASI alliance aims to accelerate the advancement of decentralized Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and, ultimately, Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). 

The FET(ASI) token serves as the unifying force within this ecosystem. It facilitates seamless transactions and interactions across the three platforms. This means that developers and users can leverage the combined strengths of Fetch.ai, SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol without the friction of managing multiple tokens or navigating disparate systems. The FET token is the prologue to the ASI token to come.

In essence, ASI aims to:

• Improve the scalability of decentralized AI applications.

• Enhance the security of AI data and operations.

• Increase the efficiency of AI development and deployment.

By holding ASI tokens, users gain access to a powerful suite of tools and services, including Fetch.ai's autonomous agents, SingularityNET's diverse AI marketplace and Ocean Protocol's secure data sharing capabilities.

The Major Players behind the Alliance

• Fetch.ai: Fetch.ai, a new AI economy Web3 platform, is redefining the possibilities of an intelligent and connected world through its AI agent-based technology. Fetch.ai's infrastructure technology enables developers and businesses to build, deploy & monetize through an agent-based modular platform for the new generation of AI applications.
  
  

• SingularityNET: SingularityNET, the world's first decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) network, was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission of creating a decentralized, democratic, inclusive and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). According to Dr. Goertzel, AGI should be independent of any central entity, open to anyone and not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or a single country.
  
  

• Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol, a decentralized data exchange platform for data protection, was founded to level the playing field for AI and data. Its tools enable businesses and individuals to trade tokenized data assets seamlessly to manage data all along the AI model life cycle. Ocean-powered apps include enterprise-grade data exchanges, data science competitions, data DAOs, and Predictor.
  
  

• CUDOS: By integrating CUDOS’ decentralized cloud computing capabilities into the ASI ecosystem, expanding the computational resources, increasing accessibility for developers and accelerating AI, AGI, and ASI development. This merger enhances the utility of the ASI token and also strengthens ASI’s collective effort to create an open, scalable and transparent AI infrastructure that benefits their global community.

  
  

Key Benefits of the Alliance

1. Creates the largest open-source, decentralized player in AI research and development. 

2. The deal provides an unprecedented opportunity for the four influential, decentralized leaders to create a powerful, compelling alternative to Big Tech’s control over AI development, use and monetization. 

3. The fusion of Ocean Protocol, SingularityNET, CUDOS and Fetch.ai’s research, brands, technologies and products creates a foundation to build an unprecedentedly scalable decentralized AI infrastructure, ensuring ethical and trustworthy practices. 

4. The token merger facilitates the combination of three thought-leaders in the research and development of AGI (Humayun Sheikh, Dr. Ben Goertzel and Dr. Trent McConaghy), advancing the path to development of the technology on the blockchain. 

5. Sheikh, McConaghy and Goertzel have long been acolytes and early-adopters of Artificial Intelligence. This Alliance facilitates the commercialization of each company’s technology, granting universal access to cutting-edge AI platforms and large databases.

   
   

What makes ASI Unique?

Founders Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET, Humayun Sheikh of Fetch.AI, and Trent McConaghy and Bruce Pon of Ocean Protocol all feel that the immediate future will see AI breakthroughs even more dramatic than the LLM breakthroughs that have held the world’s attention since early 2023. They believe that within three to eight years we will see Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems which can understand, learn and apply knowledge with the same generality and flexibility as humans, with ASI or Artificial Superintelligence (smarter than the smartest humans) emerging a few years after that. 

These epochal developments hold great potential but also great risk. One of the greatest risks is that emerging AGI and ASI will be controlled by centralized parties with special interests not aligned with global well-being. Another major risk is that AGI & ASI are centralized in the hands of Big Tech and the military. To counter this, the three-way tokenomic merger creates a well-resourced and well-organized push toward accelerating decentralized AGI then ASI. 

There are three pillars of focus: 

● Artificial Superintelligence research, development and deployment 

● Immediate practical AI application development, and building towards a unified stack 

● Scale up decentralized AI, AGI and ASI compute

ASI's Three Pillars of Focus

One cannot develop an AGI centrally and later decide to roll it out on a decentralized platform. Developing decentralized AGI starts with architecting AGI systems in a manner oriented toward decentralized infrastructure. For this, one needs to know what decentralized AGI infrastructure looks like. The The ASI Alliance efforts as a merged organization, composed of three hubs and an associated decentralized community, is based on three pillars: 

1. Build ASI. ASI seek to build decentralized Artificial Superintelligence for the coming era of the web. With a look into the future, a given is that no one has built AGI yet, let alone ASI, uncertainty in this manner is unavoidable. To maximize the chance of winning the SuperIntelligence race.
The Alliance will drive forward on four distinct but coordinated interoperating streams, namely:

● Stream I: Large Language Models 

● Stream II: Neural Symbolic evolutionary approach (OpenCog Hyperon) 

● Stream III: World-world models (Predictoor) 

● Stream IV: Emergent AI from agent networks 

2. Show apps, unify stack. ASI is driven to demonstrate what decentralized AI applications can do. Spanning from business applications and retail operations. The end goal however, resides with deriving a unifying decentralized AI stack. It’s all about impact. 

3. Scale (decentralized) compute. Artificial Intelligence from an infrastructure point of view are highly expensive with regards to energy and infrastructure to test models. If ASI are to achieve their ambitions, they need to secure the funds necessary for the bill and innovate in being energy efficient through embedded mechanisms. We are discussing a token after all, its nature not leaning on Proof of work. ASI can still be seen as a workhorse, as their means to their end is to use their tokens scale to pump their computation bill. An aggressive, yet well thought approach to getting to market safely and meeting the expectations set by their inspiring vision. 

ASI’s Ecosystem Updates

The Avail ecosystem is flourishing, let’s a have a look:

• ASI has a market capitalization of more than $3.5 billion as of October 2024

• The ASI AI DePIN stack is technology infrastructure that can be used to devise a number of decentralized AI solutions. Read more

• ASI presents AIRIS, an AI system that recreates how machines learn and interact with humanity. AIRIS autonomously generates and updates causal rules through real-time observation and interaction with its environment instead of being bound by human made rules and static rules that limit its output based on pre-training data.

• ASI: Create, empowers developers and communities to build, fund and deploy AI agents faster and easier, driving the advancement of decentralized AI and paving the way towards Artificial Superintelligence.  

• The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance (ASI) and Injective activate IBC channels, enabling interoperability and unlocking mutual benefits such as access to ASI's AI capabilities for Injective users and DeFi opportunities for ASI users.

• SingularityNET invests $53 million in AI infrastructure to develop a modular supercomputer and advanced data centers, accelerating the advancement of decentralized AGI and ASI research.

• The ASI Alliance has proposed the addition of Paal.ai. They are a leading provider of AI-driven chatbots and personalized AI solutions. ASI desires to add them to its coalition. This integration would definitely expand the reach of decentralized AI and enhance community participation through Paal's platform-agnostic chatbot technology. This is pending community approval in a vote scheduled for November 18-23, 2024 according to X (Twitter)

  
  

Conclusion

The ASI Alliance isn't just building technology; they're building a movement. A movement towards a future where AI is accessible to everyone, where innovation thrives. We’re excited to share in the benefits of this transformative technology and admire their open-door policy regarding its development.

So, get ready for the ride of a lifetime, because the ASI Alliance is about to launch us into a new era of AI.