AGI & The Singularity - Dr. Ben Goertzel

AGI & The Singularity - Dr. Ben Goertzel


In this inaugural episode we have the good fortune of
interviewing the founder and CEO of Singularitynet, Dr. Ben
Goertzel.


Having had a chance to spend quite a bit of time with Ben in Hong
Kong, we were struck by not only the pace at which Ben and the
team were moving the foundation forward, but also Ben’s earnest
and unwavering commitment to creating a positive technological
singularity.


Who is Dr. Ben Goertzel?


Dr. Ben Goertzel is the CEO and leading AI expert for
SingularityNET, and chief Scientist of Hanson robotics, a Hong
kong robotics company that is the creator of Sophia one of the
world’s most advances humanoid robots.


Ben also serves as chairman of the artificial general
intelligence society which hosts the annual AGI research
conference series, its upcoming in August 2018, and the opencog
foundation an organisation leading international development of
advanced opensource AI tools.


Dr. Goertzel is one of the world’s foremost experts in Artificial
Intelligence publishing over 141 scientific articles and 12
scientific books in the field of AI with the focus on Artificial
General Intelligence (AGI), and thinking machines with general
cognitive capabilities of the human level and beyond.


He also has decades of expertise applying AI to practical
problems in areas ranging from natural language processing and
Datamining to robotics, video gaming, national security, and bio
informatics.


Before relocating to HongKong in 2011 Dr. Goertzel held an
executive roles AI consulting and product development firms,
prior to that he served as a faculty member in mathematics at the
university of Nevada las Vegas, in cognitive science at the
university of western Australia, and in computer science at the
Lucardo New Zealand