SingularityNET Releases Updated Roadmap for H1 2020
The next set of core milestones for SingularityNET’s rapidly advancing decentralized AI network.
The SingularityNET Beta platform was released almost eleven months ago and since that initial public release, our team has been blessed with insatiable curiosity from the community regarding the next steps that will take us closer to a fully featured and mature decentralized AI marketplace capable of obsoleting the Big Tech oligopoly and fostering the emergence of beneficial general intelligence.
To satisfy this curiosity at least partially, we give here a moderately detailed roadmap covering some of the more major improvements and extensions planned for the first half of 2020.
Recent Advances
In Beta V2 and the subsequent release of BV3, we moved away from the old test UI onto a new more user-friendly UI environment.
We also introduced a new account-based system into the market and are offering free trial access to all account holders for our AI services. Choosing an AI for your project from the market should not be painful, so we encourage you to test out the AI and see what is needed first.
We then launched the first portion of our envisioned bidirectional fiat-to-crypto gateway by integrating Paypal into our platform. By doing this we opened up the market potential enormously, enabling access to AI services on our marketplace using fiat currency as well as AGI tokens (though even when end-user interaction involved fiat, the fiat is internally converted to crypto and the AGI token is the key-value propagation tool on the back end).
As well we have recently delivered a Software Development Kit (SDK), a daemon for request streams, and the greatly anticipated Request for AI Portal (RFAI).
Where are we now?
It is incredibly rewarding to see the amount of excitement about our new features, the dozens of agents now live on the network and the overall platform. We have by now substantially delivered on what, at the time of project inception in 2017, seemed to many to be just a distant dream. But we are not resting yet.
The warm welcome that the Beta has received is a solid indication that our product has remained faithful to our vision and continues to bring our vision closer to reality. But the next steps are in some ways the most critical ones: Getting substantial traction for the platform from third-party AI developers and users. In this phase, the Foundation’s own AI tools, deployed on the platform, will continue to play a critical role, and will be expanded in capability and intelligence — but will contribute largely via being accessed on the back end by third-party AI services.
In this post, we outline the roadmap for the SingularityNET platform Beta development for the first half of 2020 — a series of critical steps oriented largely toward making the platform easier to use for a variety of AI algorithm, model, product and service developers, and thus paving the way for a dramatic increase of traction in 2020 and onwards. All the work described here will be open-sourced, available for viewing and community development on SingularityNET’s GitHub Repo.
Platform Roadmap Updates for H1 2020
February
- SingularityNET comes to mobile devices. Java and Android SDKs for mobile are on their way!
- Documentation on AGI token staking. The documentation will explain how it will work, both from the staker’s perspective, and from the back-end view in which staked tokens are used to support the fiat-crypto gateway to be launched in June.
- Major Update of Developer Portal.
March
- Staking for AGI tokens begins. We will release the staking smart contracts and staking DApp.
- Launch of AI Publisher Portal. The AI Publisher Portal is a new site embodying a systematic and easy-to-use process for submitting new AI algorithms, products, and services to be listed on the SingularityNET Marketplace directory.
April
- First SingularityNET AI Algorithm/Model Developers Online Hackathon. We will be inviting hackers, students and professional developers around the world to help the ensemble of AI algorithms and models on the platform grow — and leverage this new channel to disseminate and monetize their code.
- Flexible pricing models. We will be releasing smart contracts supporting subscriptions, tiered prices, and bulk discounts.
May
- First SingularityNET AI Product/Service Developers Online Hackathon. Inviting product and service developers to explore how SingularityNET’s AI tools can enhance their products’ intelligence. Watch the array of products back-ended on the platform’s AI tools increase!
- Portal for SingularityNET Enhancement Proposals (SNEPs). Similar to the RFAI portal, but focused on platform improvements and extensions rather than AI tools. It’s time to get the community more fully involved in improving and extending the platform. It takes a global decentralized community to build a decentralized global brain.
June
- Second half of the fiat-to-crypto gateway, enabling AI service providers to receive payments in fiat. Both AI service developers and AI service consumers will be able to interact with the platform using either fiat or AGI tokens depending on their taste — with AGI tokens used in both cases on the back end. The tokenomic mechanics of the gateway will be enabled by staked AGI tokens.
And a few more things…
In addition to the above platform enhancements, aimed at easing the process of onboarding new AI developers and consumers to the platform, there is plenty more planned for 2020, in the first half and beyond. Future posts will give more depth on additional emerging developments such as:
- Integration of the reputation system, including a reputation dashboard allowing users to browse reputations of different services, authors and users. Last year we created detailed simulations of our weighted liquid rank reputation system; as usage of the platform grows during 2020, there will be increasing need for sophisticated reputation and ranking and the reputation system will be released into the platform.
- The launch of Rejuve, a tokenomic ecosystem leveraging SingularityNET AI to analyze biomedical data contributed by Rejuve network members and clinics, so as to discover new therapies contributing to human healthspan extension. Rejuve will also launch two mobile apps for Rejuve network members to help them build healthier habits.
- The launch of Xccelerando Media, a future-tech media service leveraging SingularityNET AI on the back end and covering AI and advanced technology developments relevant to the platform.
- The gradual rollout of the NuNet platform, supplying decentralized hardware networks underlying SingularityNET’s decentralized software network.
- Applications of the OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence platform, deployed within SingularityNET, to a variety of application areas including climate science, longevity biology, home automation and smart cities and more.
Conclusion
SingularityNET’s vision for a decentralized ecosystem of symbiotic AI agents is an extremely complex project to achieve. However, it is important to note where we stand today: the vision has materialized in the form of a functional Beta platform and each component is quickly falling into place.
Better yet, missing components are already defined, updated with the insight of our community, independently developed by an array of developers, and signalled by order of implementation. While the Beta platform is already delivering much of the core ingredients outlined in our whitepaper, it is clear that there is still a great deal of work left to do. Current and upcoming developments herald a surge of an overarching network that will serve anyone who wishes to incorporate AI in any form of human activity. Whether you are an individual, a small business, or a large corporation, the SingularityNET platform is now ready to foster your boldest requests.
Your feedback is critical to our success. So until we reach the fourth step of our roadmap and create a repository for platform improvement proposals, we invite you to chat with the team or community about every feature and service on our Community Forum or on Telegram.
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SingularityNET plans to reinforce and expand its collaborations to shape the coming AI Singularity into a positive one, for all. To read more about our recent news click here.
And If you have an idea for AI tools or services you’d like to see appear on the platform, you can request them on the Request for AI Portal.
