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Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb has highlighted that crypto might be the beginning of his tech journey, revealing an ultimate destination.   McCaleb revealed a lifelong passion aside from crypto: AI. The Ripple cofounder disclosed that he had been wanting to work on AI the whole time. According to Forbes, McCaleb wants to build AGI by studying how the brain learns and then translate the rules into AI. Beyond this, the Stellar founder is also trying to bankroll it to reality. $50.4 Million XRP Transferred to Coinbase Ahead of Ripple Escrow Unlocking, Painful 96.8% Bitcoin Metric Highlighted by CryptoQuant, Is Saylor’s BTC Buying Streak Finally Over?: Morning Crypto Report Elon Musk Posts Bitcoin Anime Girl, BTC Price Remains in Green “Crypto was, in some sense, a big detour,” McCaleb stated. He had “been wanting to work on AI the whole time.” He added that the only time he really got the chance to pursue this was once he stepped back from crypto. McCaleb believes in AI’s transformative potential, saying that it is the most compelling thing to work on. You Might Also Like McCaleb stated that “AI is going to be the most transformative thing that humans ever create. So it’s the most compelling thing to work on.” In this light, McCaleb is committing $1 billion of his cryptocurrency fortune (worth about $3.9 billion by Forbes’s estimate) to building AI systems that achieve artificial general intelligence, which refers to the threshold at which AI systems can perform tasks as well as humans. McCaleb’s crypto journey McCaleb’s foray into cryptocurrency goes way beyond 2011, when he teamed up with XRP Ledger creators David Schwartz and Arthur Britto to begin developing XRPL. You Might Also Like Fascinated by Bitcoin, the trio set out to create a better version that improved upon…

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