Altered State Machine: Give Your Avatars a Brain Boost
Can artificial intelligence have a place in the metaverse? Absolutely – especially if we're talking about Non-Fungible Intelligence®. The Altered State Machine (ASM) DeFi protocol lets users evaluate the abilities of digital brains for avatars in games, apps, and other virtual worlds.
Altered State Machine (ASM) is a New Zealand-based company that specializes in AI for the metaverse. Their mission is to create a dynamic digital world with understandable and trustworthy AI, while valuing decentralized technology and open-source code.
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ASM is a decentralized protocol that uses Non Fungible Intelligence® technology to bring avatars to life by giving them digital brains and turning them into NFTs.
How does an avatar with a digital brain function?
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ASM Brains is AI technology created specifically for NFTs. It has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, and can even be trained to improve its abilities. Avatars equipped with digital brains can be used in a variety of ways, such as in games, metaverses, apps, chatbots, DeFi bots, and even as virtual assistant clones.
ASM's platform features "living" avatars known as agents. They are made up of two interchangeable parts:
- The avatar, which is the visual representation of the character with a specific form and skill set. Users can either create their own unique avatar or use a pre-existing image or NFT.
- The brain, which is the core of the agent. It's developed from a genome matrix (the agent's DNA), which is a randomized set of base values. This unique feature ensures that every character has a distinct set of qualities such as size, speed, and strength.
Each agent has its own memories – learned behaviors gained through experience or training in artificial intelligence gyms. These memories are stored in the brain's memory tree, ensuring the integrity and preservation of the records.
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ASM offers not only first-generation brains (starting at 0.3999 ETH), but also second-generation brains (starting at 0.0035 ETH). However, these advanced brains are not simply given away and must be mined through the genomic mining process. This involves using ASTO tokens to generate ASTO-Energy, similar to classic staking.
Training principles for agents
The platform has created specialized training facilities, which are network cloud computing providers that select learning algorithms for agents in a specific project.
Please note that training AI is not free, and payment must be made using ASTO tokens.
ASTO Token
ASTO is the native ERC-20 token for the ASM ecosystem, with a total supply of $2,384,000,000.
The ASTO token is used to manage the DAO and the economy. Its applications include:
- Minting agents in the ASM ecosystem and other virtual worlds.
- Training agents.
- Creating proposals and participating in DAO voting.
- Rewarding users for using and developing the ecosystem.
- Purchasing instant upgrades, skins, and items.
Moreover, 20% of the total ASTO supply is reserved for the Play-to-Earn fund, which is controlled by the DAO. These tokens will be used to incentivize active ecosystem users.
The prospects for "living" avatars
Altered State Machine (ASM) has recently obtained a wide-ranging patent for ownership rights of AI ML models through NFTs. This patent has been registered with the US Patent Office and gives ASM a special position in the virtual world.
The project creators believe that autonomous agents will have various applications in the gaming, NFT, and DeFi markets. These markets are gradually merging to form a new unified metaverse world.
