Talk:Fetch.AI

Corrections about Fetch and its supposed AI capabilities

Please be very careful when using sources. Most media writers do not understand this platform on a technical level. They suck up sales and marketing pitches, but don't actually study the developer documentation or projects in technical detail.

Despite the "ai" in its name, Fetch.ai is incapable of directly hosting AI models or LLMs. All of its "AI" Agents are simply basic web programs. For AI, it relies on "fetching" responses via API requests to 3rd-party sources like external AI models. As with any blockchain platform, Fetch is unable to verify the accuracy of responses from 3rd-party sources without something similar to an oracle. HSukePup (talk) 16:09, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is Fetch decentralized?

Honestly, I'm not even sure if Fetch.ai should can be considered decentralized. Parts of it are semi-decentralized, but most of it is entirely centralized.

Both the Agentverse and Almanac are completely centralized and don't use a decentralized ledger.

On most smart-contract-capable blockchains like Ethereum and Solana, smart contracts are executed by and validated by many nodes each time a block is produced. Unlike smart contracts, each Fetch agent is hosted by a single node and executed by single endpoints. Running an agent script doesn't update state using any decentralized protocol.

Fetch does have a generic Cosmos-based blockchain ledger called the Fetch ledger which uses many validators and is decentralized, but that network is side-platform separate from their main agent platform. HSukePup (talk) 20:28, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]