#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

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. Support this
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the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be
able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 -
Introduction 03:20 - Books that inspired you 06:38 - Are there
intelligent beings all around us? 13:13 - Dostoevsky 15:56 -
Russian roots 20:19 - When did you fall in love with AI? 31:30 -
Are humans good or evil? 42:04 - Colonizing mars 46:53 - Origin of
the term AGI 55:56 - AGI community 1:12:36 - How to build AGI?
1:36:47 - OpenCog 2:25:32 - SingularityNET 2:49:33 - Sophia 3:16:02
- Coronavirus 3:24:14 - Decentralized mechanisms of power 3:40:16 -
Life and death 3:42:44 - Would you live forever? 3:50:26 - Meaning
of life 3:58:03 - Hat 3:58:46 - Question for AGI