Humayun Sheikh: Fetch AI – Decentralising AI Economies

While large language models (LLMs) are rather passive from an economic perspective on their own, AI agents offer a preview of what truly autonomous AI applications can achieve. Fetch.ai aims to create a platform for economic interactions in the AI economy, where participants can provide many different kinds of stake, ranging from purely financial, in the form of cryptocurrency tokens, to utility based, in the form of data sets that LLMs can be trained on. It thus creates a supply chain that links different actors of the AI economy.

We were joined by Humayun Sheikh, co-founder & CEO of Fetch.ai, to discuss AI economic models and how LLMs can be integrated by agentic systems as a foundation for autonomous AI apps.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Humayun’s background
• Founding Fetch.ai
• Multi-agent systems
• Autonomous economic agent
• Building a Cosmos based blockchain
• Integrating ML with agent economy
• Scalability & interoperability
• Use cases & partnerships
• AI x crypto projects
• Incentivising developers
• AI alignment problem
• Fetch AI roadmap
• The future of ML & LLMs

Episode links:

• Humayun Sheikh on Twitter
• Fetch.ai on Twitter

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This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/539