Greetings Rejuve.AI Community,
This is Dr. John Thomson Smith again. As Senior Medical Advisor at Rejuve.AI, I hope you enjoyed my takeaways from the incredible MedTech Malta 2024 conference. From Valetta, I made my way to an equally energetic city for yet another inspiring trip which I am excited to tell you all about today!
I had the great honor of being invited to attend two cutting-edge conferences in the bustling city of Bangkok, Thailand: the SingularityNET Ecosystem Festival and the Superintelligence Summit.
As a medical professional now working within the contemporary longevity field, I felt it was important to get to grips with the current concepts and roadmap for artificial intelligence, human superintelligence, and decentralization. I was also hoping to gain valuable insights and a greater understanding of the application of cryptocurrency within decentralized science.
SingularityNET Ecosystem Festival Recap
The weekend kicked off with the SingularityNET Ecosystem Festival. Whilst building the foundations for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), SingularityNET is also bootstrapping an ecosystem of ‘spin-off’ organizations that will fuel the platform with diverse AI services.
SingularityNET essentially acts like an incubator providing guidance, funding, and expertise to these ventures with the goal of turning the initiatives into a successful and fully independent entity in the true spirit of decentralization!
Leading experts shared updates on these latest blockchain projects through dynamic and interactive presentations. Project leaders provided an informative and insightful session showcasing the most innovative projects in the ecosystem that are transforming the industry landscape.
What I found most impressive and staggering was the diversity of the ecosystem network in terms of strategically selected vertical markets including Decentralized finance (DeFi), robotics, biotechnology and longevity, gaming and media, arts, music, and entertainment.
Superintelligence Summit Recap
Day 2 in Bangkok was the exceptional Superintelligence Summit — an exclusive one-day event packed with inspiring keynotes, engaging panel discussions, workshops, and networking sessions, taking a deep dive into artificial and human superintelligence and decentralized AI.
The event was expertly organized by Ocean Protocol (a blockchain-based platform aiming to create a decentralized data marketplace) in collaboration with the Foresight Institute (a research non-profit organization supporting the beneficial development of high-impact technologies).
The stand-out keynote talks for me were by Trent McConaghy, Founder and CTO of Ocean Protocol, who explored the futuristic topic of human superintelligence by accelerating brain interfaces, and Dr. Ben Goertzel, Founder and CEO of SingularityNet and the ASI Alliance, who delivered a profound and impactful keynote presentation on the pathway to Beneficial General Intelligence (BGI).
As a newcomer to the network, I was made to feel extremely welcome to the organization, and had an opportunity to introduce myself, ask questions, and make contributions throughout the weekend. There was an obvious and deep emphasis on collaboration, spun from the recent formation of the Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) Alliance — a revolutionary and powerful merger between SingularityNET, Fetch.ai, and Ocean Protocol. This was very refreshing to observe coming from a highly competitive and often ‘closed-shop’ environment within certain healthcare systems where I have previously worked.
The ecosystem festival and SI Summit concluded with the eye-opening SuperLife party — a highly unique networking event, offering participants a full immersion in experimental AI and a personalized interactive journey through AI apps stands of travel and photo generation, concluding with a distinctive musical experience by Desdemona’s Dream and lead vocals by a humanoid robot!
Key takeaways from Bangkok
AI for Global Good — utilizing the development of AGI and its practical solutions to drive positive global change and benefit humanity with emphasis on innovations in healthcare, longevity science, and education.
Collaboration is crucial to the future of decentralized AI to strengthen and empower our collective effort and create an open, scalable, and transparent AI infrastructure that benefits the global community.
Bringing focus on the key intersection of AI and human advancement to find the ‘sweet-spot’ in the pathway to Beneficial General Intelligence in order to spawn Artificial Superintelligence which should be benevolent, if achieved at the general level.