自計算機科學家本·戈茲爾（Ben Goertzel）撰寫了他的第一行AI代碼以來已經30年了

如今，隨著世界接近人工通用情報（AGI）的曙光，領導這一突破的人可能會對人類的未來產生深遠的影響。

It’s been 30 years since computer scientist Ben Goertzel wrote his first line of AI code, already convinced that artificial intelligence should be decentralized. Today, as the world approaches the dawn of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), who leads this breakthrough could have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

自計算機科學家本·戈茲爾（Ben Goertzel）撰寫了他的第一行AI代碼以來已經30年了，已經確信應分散人工智能。如今，隨著世界接近人工通用情報（AGI）的曙光，領導這一突破的人可能會對人類的未來產生深遠的影響。

Speaking with Cointelegraph at the Consensus conference in Toronto, Canada, Goertzel said, "We’re likely to be able to launch AGI that can think and generalize beyond its training and programming within the next one to three years."

Goertzel在加拿大多倫多舉行的共識會議上與Cointelegraph進行了交談：“我們很可能能夠在未來一到三年內推出可以思考和推廣其培訓和編程的AGI。”

His project, SingularityNET, is a decentralized ecosystem building a global marketplace for AI services. Along the way, it has secured partnerships with Mind Network and Filecoin Foundation, invested $53 million in a modular supercomputer dedicated to decentralized AGI, and completed a token merger with Ocean Protocol and Fetch.ai to unify efforts in decentralized AI development.

他的項目SingularityNet是一個分散的生態系統，為AI服務建立了全球市場。在此過程中，它已經與Mind Network和Filecoin基金會建立了合作夥伴關係，投資了5300萬美元，用於專門用於分散AGI的模塊化超級計算機，並完成了與海洋協議的代幣合併，並通過Fetch.ai統一了分散的AI開發的努力。

In 2024, Goertzel founded the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, the world’s largest open-source initiative dedicated to decentralized AGI.

2024年，Goertzel成立了人工超級智能聯盟，該聯盟是全球最大的開源計劃，致力於分散的AGI。

SingularityNET and the ASI Alliance are "probably the only serious AGI R&D team outside of Big Tech, certainly the only one in the crypto space, and I don't mean any slight against others doing cool AI stuff in the crypto space," Goertzel said.

Goertzel說，SingularityNet和ASI聯盟是“可能是Big Tech之外唯一的嚴肅的Agi R＆D團隊，這當然是加密貨幣領域中唯一的一支，我並不是說在加密貨幣領域中對其他人做酷的AI工作的任何一點”。

For Goertzel, these milestones represent a return to first principles. After decades spent developing AI and championing decentralization, the broader tech world is finally catching up, turning once-radical ideas into drivers of multi-trillion-dollar industries.

對於Goertzel來說，這些里程碑代表了返回第一原則。在發展AI並倡導權力下放的數十年之後，更廣泛的技術界終於趕上了，將曾經的激進想法變成了數万億美元的行業的驅動力。

The substance behind decentralization

權力下放背後的物質

"In '93, '94, '95, it became clear to me AI should be decentralized," Goertzel said.

Goertzel說：“ 93年93年，'95，對我來說，AI應該被分散。”

He wrote his first decentralized AI code the following year using a beta version of Java, then founded his first AI company in New York in 1997.

第二年，他使用Beta版Java撰寫了他的第一個分散的AI代碼，然後於1997年在紐約創立了他的第一家AI公司。

At the time, the internet Goertzel was working with was itself decentralized, so it seemed only natural that AI should be, too.

當時，互聯網Goertzel與之合作本身已經分散，因此AI也應該是自然的。

"What I didn't foresee then was that the internet would become so centralized, actually, because at that point the internet really was decentralized," he said.

他說：“那時我沒有預見的是，互聯網實際上會變得如此集中，因為那時互聯網確實被分散了。”

The internet’s subsequent evolution watered down the foundation of decentralization. "Later on, what happened is, you have Google, you have Facebook, you have Tencent — you have these companies making huge centralized mirrors of the internet on these massive data centers," he said.

互聯網隨後的演變淡化了權力下放的基礎。他說：“後來，發生的事情是，您有Google，您有Facebook，您有騰騰 - 您有這些公司在這些龐大的數據中心上製作互聯網的巨大集中式鏡子。”

However, for the next leap into AGI, Goertzel sees decentralization as a foundational safeguard against the monopolization and misuse of the technology. That principle is embedded in the architecture of SingularityNET, Hyperon, and the upcoming ASI Chain, a modular blockchain designed for decentralized AI.

但是，對於下一個進入AGI的飛躍，Goertzel將權力下放是防止對技術的壟斷和濫用的基礎保護。該原理嵌入了SingularityNet，Hyperon和即將到來的ASI鏈的架構中，ASI鍊是一種用於分散AI的模塊化區塊鏈。

His argument is that AGI must be decentralized from the ground up, not adopted later, if it is to benefit humanity rather than serve concentrated power.

他的論點是，如果是為了使人類受益而不是充滿集中權力，則必須從頭開始，而不是在以後採用。

"The way the post-AGI period goes may be quite different depending on whether the decentralized ecosystem plays a role in it or not," he said, adding:

他補充說：“後期時期的發展方式可能會大不相同，具體取決於分散的生態系統在其中發揮作用。”

If the decentralized ecosystem isn't part of the picture, then we'll have a small number of large, powerful tech companies setting the agenda for the development of AGI and the deployment of AGI.

如果分散的生態系統不是圖片的一部分，那麼我們將擁有少數大型，強大的科技公司為AGI的開發和AGI的部署設定議程。

A brief foray into decentralized money

短暫涉足分散的錢

Perhaps due to his anarchist leanings and desire to "make anarchism real in cyberspace," Goertzel explored the idea of decentralized money back in the 90s.

也許由於他的無政府主義者傾向和渴望“在網絡空間中使無政府主義真實”的願望，Goertzel探索了90年代分散資金的想法。

As interesting as it sounded then, Goertzel and his friends concluded that transaction times would be too slow and expensive, rendering the idea impractical.

當時聽起來很有趣，Goertzel和他的朋友得出結論，交易時間太慢且昂貴，使這個想法不切實際。

Just a few decades later, a person or entity named Satoshi Nakamoto created the first successful implementation of decentralized money known as Bitcoin (BTC). Ironically, its transactions are still slow and expensive — perhaps by design or due to its growing popularity — so Goertzel’s early skepticism wasn’t entirely misplaced.

幾十年後，一個名為Satoshi Nakamoto的人或實體創造了第一個成功實施的分散貨幣，即比特幣（BTC）。具有諷刺意味的是，它的交易仍然很慢且昂貴 - 也許是由於設計或由於其日益普及而引起的 - 因此Goertzel的早期懷疑論並沒有完全放錯地方。

He also admitted that, at the time, he and his friends simply “weren’t good enough at business to hit on the idea of money laundering, selling drugs and guns online and so forth as a business model.”

他還承認，當時，他和他的朋友“在業務上還不夠好，無法以洗錢，在線出售毒品和槍支的想法，作為商業模式。”

He was perhaps half-joking in a nod to the darknet marketplace Silk Road, which enabled anonymous transactions using Bitcoin until it was seized by authorities in 2013.

他也許在對Darknet Marketplace Silk Road的點頭上開玩笑，該道路可以使用比特幣進行匿名交易，直到當局於2013年被當局扣押為止。