#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.


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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