Dr. Ben Goertzel, Founder of SingularityNET, Made Provocative Comments Regarding the AI Innovations Presented at CES in Las Vegas

Dr. Ben Goertzel, the founder of SingularityNET and a creator of AI-powered robots, shared his provocative insights on the AI innovations showcased at CES in Las Vegas.

A computer scientist who often makes bold predictions about the potential of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Goertzel observed the ubiquity of AI at CES 2025.

Major global tech companies, such as Nvidia, demonstrated how AI has transitioned from being a separate category to a technology that is now embedded in almost all the innovations on display.

Some of the AI-related announcements included applications in window cleaning, healthcare diagnostics, autonomous drones, video editing, and customer experience tools.

In essence, AI seemed to be the primary driver of innovation across the board.

While acknowledging that predicting the details of any new radical technology is difficult, Goertzel noted that things are already moving quickly in the AI sector.

The founder of SingularityNET stated that he considers it quite plausible "that we will witness the advent of machines with human-level general intelligence as early as 2026 or 2027.”

Goertzel finds Ray Kurzweil’s estimate of 2029, mentioned in his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near," to be realistic and even a bit conservative.

“The numerous developments in AI, robotics, and smart devices that we see launched at CES this year do not yet bring us to human-level AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), but they represent clear and tangible steps along the path,” he stated.

The founder of Singularity NET also argues that there are strong reasons to believe that once a human-level AGI is achieved, this AGI will take on the task of improving itself. He thus believes that it might not be long before a much more capable artificial superintelligence is born.

“The social and scientific impact of such developments is too enormous to be summarized, but it would include the creation of an unprecedented material abundance, the abolition of aging and most diseases, and the ability for humans to advance in new wild directions through fusion with new forms of embodiment and intelligence,” he added.

The risks that he foresees are linked to the possible military and corporate control of AGI, rather than the emergence of an evil superintelligence. For this reason, he considers it imperative that AGI systems be under decentralized and participatory control involving a broad segment of humanity, rather than serving the territorial and economic goals of a single party.

SingularityNET, founded by Goertzel, is the first decentralized AI marketplace in the world. For the second quarter of this year, they announced three new developments.

The first is ASI:Create, a platform that allows software and artificial intelligence application developers to create powerful AI applications that combine neural networks and knowledge graphs with little or no coding required.

The second is ASI:Zero, a new level of blockchain infrastructure customized for the needs of a large-scale decentralized artificial intelligence.

The third is the “Alpha 2” version of the OpenCog Hyperon system, a platform for the development of decentralized neural-symbolic AGI that includes a version of the AGI language “MeTTa” which runs about 1 million times faster than the prototype interpreter in the Hyperon Alpha 1 version.

The token AGIX of SingularityNET debuted on the crypto markets back in 2018. Together with FET from Fetch.ai and OCEAN from Ocean Protocol, it will merge into the ASI token (Artificial Superintelligence Alliance).

During the great bull run of 2021, the price of AGIX rose to over $0.6, but in the bear-market of 2022, it plummeted to $0.04. Starting, however, from 2023 it experienced a true awakening, with a first peak above $0.5, and a second peak in March 2024 even above $1.3.

Since then, it has fallen below $0.4, but then rose again to the current approximately $0.6, in line with the maximum peak of 2021. The narrative related to artificial intelligence in the financial markets continues to push many stocks higher, including AI crypto.