#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
June 22, 2020
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Episode 103 · June 22, 2020
#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
Summary
<p>Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog AI framework, formerly a director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the Sophia Robot. He has been a central figure in the AGI community for many years, including in the Conference on Artificial General Intelligence.</p>
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<p>OUTLINE:<br />
00:00 – Introduction<br />
03:20 – Books that inspired you<br />
06:38 – Are there intelligent beings all around us?<br />
13:13 – Dostoevsky<br />
15:56 – Russian roots<br />
20:19 – When did you fall in love with AI?<br />
31:30 – Are humans good or evil?<br />
42:04 – Colonizing mars<br />
46:53 – Origin of the term AGI<br />
55:56 – AGI community<br />
1:12:36 – How to build AGI?<br />
1:36:47 – OpenCog<br />
2:25:32 – SingularityNET<br />
2:49:33 – Sophia<br />
3:16:02 – Coronavirus<br />
3:24:14 – Decentralized mechanisms of power<br />
3:40:16 – Life and death<br />