Singapore’s Neutral Perspective: Mastering AI and Winning in the Era of AI and Web3.0 Integration
In the global race for AI dominance, with China and the United States leading the charge, Singapore’s contributions are occasionally overlooked. A Managing Director from a Singapore-based investment firm noted, “While China and the U.S. have established a stronghold in AI technology, the opportunities for Southeast Asia in this sector are not yet clearly defined.”
Contrary to popular belief, Singapore is not overshadowed in the AI sector. It is actively carving out a niche within the global AI landscape, leveraging its strong economy and collaborative strengths in technology. Southeast Asia’s AI infrastructure is experiencing some of the fastest growth worldwide. Political dynamics in the region have attracted both Chinese and American tech giants, who are establishing data centre’s here, accelerating AI training and infrastructure development. Despite the region’s fragmented internet landscape and diverse markets, which complicate commercial expansion compared to the unified markets of China and the U.S., Singapore’s robust economy serves as a strategic gateway for these companies, offering a stable and innovative environment for their Southeast Asian operations.
The decentralisation, distribution, and disintermediation inherent to Web3.0 — the third generation of the internet — represent a transformative shift in digital interactions. By strategically aligning its long-term development plans to merge Web3.0 with AI, Singapore is positioned to significantly influence the future of AI governance and discourse alongside the world’s leading powers. These pivotal roles in standard-setting and regulatory leadership will shape the values and systems that dominate the future AI landscape, establishing Singapore as a critical hub in the evolving Web3 ecosystem.
In 2024, Singapore has taken significant strides in advancing its position in the AI sector. On February 16th, Singapore’s fourth-generation Prime Minister and current Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Lawrence Wong, outlined plans in the 2024 fiscal year budget to support the country’s national AI strategy 2.0. To amplify Singapore’s leadership in AI and foster talent and development in the nation, the government has committed over 1 billion Singapore dollars (approximately 730 million USD) over the next five years. This investment aims to bolster AI computing capabilities, nurture talent, and enhance industry development.
The Singapore Polytechnic Graduate Guild invites you to the pivotal “Mastering AI” seminar on August 16th, a must-attend event for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of the ongoing AI revolution. This seminar presents an invaluable opportunity to empower your knowledge, featuring insights from some of the most influential figures in the field. Hear from Professor Dong Minghui, the former Chief Scientist at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR); Una Wang, the innovative Founder and CEO of LingoAI; and Henry Wang, the visionary Founder of SmartMesh and the World Web3 Alliance (W3A). Don’t miss the chance to learn from these leading experts and enhance your perspective on the future of AI.
The seminar will explore cutting-edge AI topics, including multimodal models, speech and natural language processing, and Web3.0 AI agents. Language, once fragmented by divine confusion, is now unified by AI, enabling seamless communication across languages. By leveraging AI and physical infrastructure networks (AI+DePIN), we aim to rebuild the Tower of Babel and safeguard endangered languages and cultures.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, stated, “The control of AI is the most pressing issue of our time.” Henry Wang concurs but emphasizes, “While Altman focuses on centralised control, I advocate for empowering individuals to manage their own AI and data through protocols that ensure privacy and safety.” He warns that AI will benefit those who control it, deepen disparities between the wealthy who lack control and the poor, and exacerbate inequality overall.
The pinnacle of AI is the AI agent, with Web3.0 AI agents representing the ultimate form of People’s AI. These agents, combining DePIN and RWA with your silicon-based life form, create a MetaLife — a blend of eternal life and social interaction.
On August 16th in Singapore, “Mastering AI” will reveal critical insights on managing AI, which will have a profound impact on your life and wealth, surpassing even the internet boom of 1995. If you’re in Singapore, we warmly invite you to join us and gain invaluable insights at “Mastering AI” on August 16th. This event promises to be a game-changer for your understanding and management of AI.
Speaker Profiles:
Professor Dong Minghui:
With nearly 30 years of experience in AI research, Dr. Dong Minghui served as a principal scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) for two decades. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Currently, Dr. Dong is the Chief Scientist at ZSTU Longgang Research Institute and a professor at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (ZSTU) in China.
Dr. Dong is the President of the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA), Vice-President of the Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS), Chairperson of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (SIG-CSLP), an Executive Committee Member of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Asian Language Processing (IJALP).
Dr. Dong’s research encompasses spoken and natural language processing, machine learning, and other AI applications. He has contributed to numerous international academic conferences related to speech and language processing and led the development of spoken language processing systems for multiple languages and platforms.
Henry Wang:
Founder and CEO of SmartMesh,
Advisor for LingoAI, MetaLife, and MeshBox Foundation,
Founder of World Web3 Alliance (W3A),
Fellow at Singapore University of Social Sciences.
As the founder of SmartMesh and the World Web3 Alliance (W3A), Henry Wang is a world-renowned thought leader and technology expert. Henry coined the term Web3.0 in 2003 to combined AI with social networks to achieve his mission of “One World, One Web.” Three years later, Tim Berners-Lee, the founding father of the World Wide Web, adopted the term Web3.0 in 2006 to replaced Semantic Web, which represents the next generation of the Web. In 2017, Henry defined the switching model of the Value Internet as Token Switching. That same year, Henry also invented offline cryptocurrency payment and extended the definition of Web3.0 with fully decentralized off-grid communication and offline payments. His Grand Unified Theory of Web3.0 combines data application protocols represented by SOLID with value transfer protocols represented by blockchain to form the foundational protocols of Web3.0, bringing data autonomy back to users and reconstructing the new order of the internet by combining large language models (LLM) with data autonomy.
After earning his master’s degree in Physics from Peking University in 1999, Henry Wang received a full scholarship to study Astronomy and Physics at Northwestern University in the U.S. In 2000, Henry transferred to Ph.D. programme in Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Henry holds a U.S. PCT patent for AI machine translation [Translation on Demand]. In 2006, Henry dropped out of school to pursue his dream of Web3.0 and later founded the SmartMesh Foundation in Singapore. In January 2020, the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), SmartMesh, and MeshBox, the pioneer of DePIN, jointly established the Singapore Blockchain Living Lab, aimed at building the foundation of an open global DePIN Internet of Value. As the foundational protocol and cornerstone project of the unified theory of Web3.0, the decentralized social network MetaLife.Social can form the underlying foundation protocol for Web3.0 applications with Tim Berners-Lee’s SOLID, and LingoAI has defined the world’s first Web3.0 AI agent.
Una Wang:
Founder of LingoAI, focused on decentralized AI and cross-lingual large language model content generation, certified in Data Privacy and Technology from Harvard University, and with a background in Smart Product Design from Nanyang Technological University. She has extensive experience in intelligent product design and virtual reality technology development. She is also dedicated to leveraging Web3 technology to support the pre-training, fine-tuning, governance, and democratization of AI large language models, aiming to create a sustainable ecosystem to help individuals, businesses, and organizations transition in the AI era.
About LingoAI:
LingoAI has defined the world’s first Web3.0 AI agent. LingoAI’s goal is to enable people to contribute multilingual corpora through incentives via LingoPod, overcoming the barriers to real-time cross-lingual communication for 8 billion people worldwide, protecting endangered languages, and rebuilding the “Tower of Babel” in the AI era through AI x DePIN.
LingoAI has innovatively integrated the Web3.0 and AI MetaGraph technology stack from the ground up. MetaGraph allows large language models to combine with knowledge graphs and multilingual RAG, ensuring that large language models avoid generating hallucinations. LingoAI uses the fundamental semantic web, achieving data and application separation through Tim Berners-Lee’s SOLID and MetaLife.Social protocols, protecting personal data privacy, and aiming to form a global decentralized data trading market to solve the data shortage problem caused by Web2.0 data silos.
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922. LingoAI is dedicated to breaking the boundaries of human language through “Web3.0 + AI” technology, becoming a cross-lingual AI platform for enterprises and individuals, committed to “Bridging languages, Embracing AI.”
