自计算机科学家本·戈兹尔（Ben Goertzel）撰写了他的第一行AI代码以来已经30年了

如今，随着世界接近人工通用情报（AGI）的曙光，领导这一突破的人可能会对人类的未来产生深远的影响。

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.

自计算机科学家本·戈兹尔（Ben Goertzel）撰写了他的第一行AI代码以来已经30年了，已经确信应分散人工智能。如今，随着世界接近人工通用情报（AGI）的曙光，领导这一突破的人可能会对人类的未来产生深远的影响。

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在加拿大多伦多举行的共识会议上与Cointelegraph进行了交谈：“我们很可能能够在未来一到三年内推出可以思考和推广其培训和编程的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.

他的项目SingularityNet是一个分散的生态系统，为AI服务建立了全球市场。在此过程中，它已经与Mind Network和Filecoin基金会建立了合作伙伴关系，投资了5300万美元，用于专门用于分散AGI的模块化超级计算机，并完成了与海洋协议的代币合并，并通过Fetch.ai统一了分散的AI开发的努力。

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

2024年，Goertzel成立了人工超级智能联盟，该联盟是全球最大的开源计划，致力于分散的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说，SingularityNet和ASI联盟是“可能是Big Tech之外唯一的严肃的Agi R＆D团队，这当然是加密货币领域中唯一的一支，我并不是说在加密货币领域中对其他人做酷的AI工作的任何一点”。

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.

对于Goertzel来说，这些里程碑代表了返回第一原则。在发展AI并倡导权力下放的数十年之后，更广泛的技术界终于赶上了，将曾经的激进想法变成了数万亿美元的行业的驱动力。

The substance behind decentralization

权力下放背后的物质

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

Goertzel说：“ 93年93年，'95，对我来说，AI应该被分散。”

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撰写了他的第一个分散的AI代码，然后于1997年在纽约创立了他的第一家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.

当时，互联网Goertzel与之合作本身已经分散，因此AI也应该是自然的。

"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.

他说：“那时我没有预见的是，互联网实际上会变得如此集中，因为那时互联网确实被分散了。”

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.

互联网随后的演变淡化了权力下放的基础。他说：“后来，发生的事情是，您有Google，您有Facebook，您有腾腾 - 您有这些公司在这些庞大的数据中心上制作互联网的巨大集中式镜子。”

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，对于下一个进入AGI的飞跃，Goertzel将权力下放是防止对技术的垄断和滥用的基础保护。该原理嵌入了SingularityNet，Hyperon和即将到来的ASI链的架构中，ASI链是一种用于分散AI的模块化区块链。

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.

他的论点是，如果是为了使人类受益而不是充满集中权力，则必须从头开始，而不是在以后采用。

"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:

他补充说：“后期时期的发展方式可能会大不相同，具体取决于分散的生态系统在其中发挥作用。”

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.

如果分散的生态系统不是图片的一部分，那么我们将拥有少数大型，强大的科技公司为AGI的开发和AGI的部署设定议程。

A brief foray into decentralized money

短暂涉足分散的钱

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.

也许由于他的无政府主义者倾向和渴望“在网络空间中使无政府主义真实”的愿望，Goertzel探索了90年代分散资金的想法。

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

当时听起来很有趣，Goertzel和他的朋友得出结论，交易时间太慢且昂贵，使这个想法不切实际。

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.

几十年后，一个名为Satoshi Nakamoto的人或实体创造了第一个成功实施的分散货币，即比特币（BTC）。具有讽刺意味的是，它的交易仍然很慢且昂贵 - 也许是由于设计或由于其日益普及而引起的 - 因此Goertzel的早期怀疑论并没有完全放错地方。

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.”

他还承认，当时，他和他的朋友“在业务上还不够好，无法以洗钱，在线出售毒品和枪支的想法，作为商业模式。”

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.

他也许在对Darknet Marketplace Silk Road的点头上开玩笑，该道路可以使用比特币进行匿名交易，直到当局于2013年被当局扣押为止。