SingularityNet, founded by the prominent AI scientist Ben Goertzel who also created the human-like robot Sophia, is building a decentralized marketplace for AI services. A good starting point for our analysis would be the project's whitepaper, which summarizes it as follows:
"The value and power of Artificial Intelligence is growing dramatically every year, and will soon dominate the internet – and the economy as a whole. However, AI tools today are fragmented by a closed development environment; most are developed by one company to perform one task, and there is no way to plug two tools together. SingularityNET aims to become the key protocol for networking AI and machine learning tools to form a coordinated Artificial General Intelligence."
SingularityNET is an open source protocol and collection of smart contracts for...