It is a pity that very little of what is going on with the SingularityNET project is being mentioned in this thread. Most of the discussions are taking place on Telegram, where the meaningful points which are made rapidly fade out in the background noise.
Today someone (User JC) has made a nice post which IMO deserves to be shared with the wider community, and therefore I'm now quoting it below.
SingularityNET is an AI marketplace hub that allows individuals, small businesses, corporate customers, and even other marketplaces to purchase a custom blend of AI services such as speech recognition, delivery optimization, IoT, etc., which can then run and directly communicate with each other on the SingularityNET platform. These services are paid for using a fiat-to-AGI gateway, and because customers will mostly be paying in fiat, the price of AGI is irrelevant to them. While the price of AI services is set by each developer in fiat, anyone can buy AGi off the market and purchase AI services directly on the marketplace using AGI.
In the case of someone like Domino’s pizza, which is a SingularityNET partner, say they want to sign a year-long contract to purchase 10 million USD of AI services from Singularity Studios, this contract would be purchased with USD and converted into AGI.
Once a payment channel is established, the AGI is locked away and the supply of AGI decreases. Subsequently, Ping An, one of the largest companies in the world, and the various other undisclosed clients of Singularity Studio purchase contracts for AI, and AGI is purchased at whatever the market price of AGI is using the fiat gateway. This drives up the price of AGI further.
Once the price of AGI rises, it makes the news. The NYT, Forbes, and various AI blogs write articles about how small businesses can request custom AI using AGI on the RFAI portal, and developers become interested in creating AI on the network. Businesses purchase AGI to stake on the RFAI portal, which drives supply down even further.
Once developers see the value of AGI rise, they will want to place their own AI algorithms on the platform to capitalize on the rising price of AGI. This will fuel staking and utilization of AI service contracts, which will further decrease supply of AGI.
As the price of AGI rises, speculative buying will further drive the price of AGI, and there will be a tipping point where there will be so many premium AI algorithms available, that both corporations and developers will flock to SingularityNET as the go-to platform for AI, similar to how Amazon came to dominate consumer products.
All of this doesn’t take into account various staking mechanisms that will be in place, or the quest for super-intelligent AI (Artificial General Intelligence), which is the life-long quest of Dr. Ben Goertzel, the CEO of SingularityNET.