As the world’s largest artificial intelligence conference kicks off, the excitement is palpable. Ai4 2024 brings together the industry’s brightest minds and grandest visionaries who are working on the frontlines of the AI industry and the two-day North American conference promises to be full of reveals. Chief among them is the vision of artificial general intelligence (AGI) that will be spelled out by HyperCycle.
At Ai2024, taking place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas from August 12-14, HyperCycle aims to prove that the future of AGI is decentralized. The tech startup has developed a purpose-built Layer 0 framework for the event that will demonstrate how different AI agents can work together across a distributed network. While HyperCycle doesn’t describe itself as a blockchain project, its developers believe that decentralized networks are the best way to route data between AI agents.
The use of blockchain solves many of the problems associated with the current centralized AI industry, including attribution, intellectual property, licensing, and sharing of training data. At Ai2024, HyperCycle will have an opportunity to share its vision of AGI with the industry’s movers and shakers and seek to convince delegates and prospective partners that its decentralized network is ideally suited to the task.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) describes a type of artificial intelligence that possesses the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a wide range of tasks at a level comparable to human intelligence. Unlike current AI systems, which are designed to perform specific tasks, AGI would be capable of performing any intellectual task that a human can including reasoning, problem-solving, and adapting to new situations.
No one in the industry disputes that AGI is coming: it’s inevitable. The only questions still to be determined are when and what form it will take. For developers of web3 technology such as HyperCycle, the industry must gravitate towards decentralized networks to prevent AI innovation from becoming monopolized. For its proponents, the greatest invention since the internet itself should be open to all to develop and distributed networks are a critical way of facilitating that goal.
HyperCycle’s appearance at Ai2024 will be one of numerous highlights. More than 5,000 delegates are expected over the course of the two-day event to hear 350 speakers and take in AI exhibits that provide a taster of how we will interact with the artificial intelligence applications of the near future. For HyperCycle, the event promises to build upon the success of its community growing efforts this year, aided by a successful token generation event that raised more than $8M.
The number of independently operated nodes on HyperCycle’s network now numbers over 300,000, providing a highly distributed network for hosting AI workloads. At Ai2024, HyperCycle will be one of a number of companies seeking to convince the world that the future of artificial intelligence is intertwined with that of web3.