Three years ago I was already expressing my skepticism regarding the wider applicability and adoption of “peer-to-peer distributed ledgers”, widely known as “blockchains”. Half-year ago it has been pretty much confirmed by known issues with Facebook’s Libra and graceful crash of Gram(Ton) project, the announcement of the crypto-yuan, Visa crypto-dollar…

Most of the chatbots available on the market typically fall under one of the three categories: 1) “Small talk chatbots” pre-trained on massive dialogue data and capable to simulate social kind of pointless conversation; 2) “Personal Assistants” manually hardcoded to perform a variety of pre-programmed activities; 3) “Dialog-flow based” chatbots…

Any Aigents® bot can speak “controlled language”, called Aigents Language. It can be used to pose any directives to the Aigents engine, enter the new knowledge in forms of semantic relationships of query for that knowledge from the internal graph database. However, the “controlled “language” appears not expressive enough for…

Since the inception of the Aigents® project, the scope of the Webspace available for the Aigents user was narrowed down to the list of sites the user configures for their account themselves or have extracted by the Aigents engine from histories of user interactions. …

Sifting through a sea of information to bring you only relevant topics of interest. — In our last publication, we described how Aigents® can be used to generate, extracted, and aggregated content from random raw news sources such as arbitrary web pages, social media channels on Reddit, Telegram, and forums like Discourse as well as discussion groups on Telegram and Slack. What’s new? In the latest Aigents…

The entire idea of proof-of-reputation for liquid democracy was posed over 2 years ago in the Aigents® project. The weighted liquid rank algorithm implementing this idea was designed last year, along with the reference implementation of SingularityNET reputation system API. What’s new now? The latest Aigents 2.3.6 release brings it forward to the…

Making Reputation Assessment with SingularityNET “Weighted Liquid Rank” algorithm available for any Discourse forum community. In our previous two blog posts on this subject, we have discussed how to create and utilise personal social and graph analytics for Discourse communities with Aigents® and how the Aigents implementation of the SingularityNET…

Empowering the community with personal social analytics and reputation studies. — The ability to perform personal social analytics and reputation studies within most major online social media platforms are severely limited by API restrictions guided by privacy protection and internal monetisation models where socially-relevant user-generated content is consumed by market analysis and advertisement businesses.

The problem of reliable democratic governance is important for the survival of any community, and it will be more and critical over time communities with levels of social connectivity in a society rapidly increasing with speeds and scales of electronic communication. This might become critically important with the emergence of…