Ben Goertzel AI Mastermind, Founder SingularityNet

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Ben Goertzel is a leading world recognised artificial intelligence researcher, thinker, software engineer and serial entrepreneur. Ben is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, the Chairman of OpenCog Foundation, the Chairman of Artificial General Intelligence Society, the Chief Scientist of Mozi Health and Vice Chairman Humanity+ and his work, writing and ideas are influencing the way we perceive AI, technology and blockchain. 

Ben Goertzel AI Mastermind, Founder SingularityNet – What kind of mind can we engineer?

Ben Goertzel Interview focus questions:

1. An introduction from Ben – background, overview, education…

2. The way you look at AI, AGI, open AI?

3. Career highlights?

4. Your companies and focus

5. What is your main focus as a doer?

6. Can you show an example of of open AI

7. You have a focus on open AI and Artificial General Intelligence? Can you elaborate on this?

8. You are a thinker, philosopher and as we look at evolution how do you see Singularity, special when it comes to the 2 visions of humanity the light side and the dark side?

9. What are Ben’s goals and focus as a thinker and a doer?

10. With Covid-19 how can you look at this as a way to redesign our society

11. As a science fiction reader, writer and enthusiastic what is your vision of the Future you would like to create?

Bio: Ben Goertzel is a leading world recognised authority in artificial intelligence research, inventor and serial entrepreneur. Ben is a deep thinker and also a man of action as the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, the Chairman of OpenCog Foundation, the Chairman of Artificial General Intelligence Society, the Chief Scientist of Mozi Health and Vice Chairman Humanity+ Goertzel is the chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University.

He was Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute). Goertzel is the son of Ted Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University.

[2] He left high school after the tenth grade to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Quantitative Studies.

[3] Views on AI In May 2007, Goertzel spoke at a Google Tech talk about his approach to creating Artificial General Intelligence. He defines intelligence as the ability to detect patterns in the world and in the agent itself, measurable in terms of emergent behavior of “achieving complex goals in complex environments”.

A “baby-like” artificial intelligence is initialized, then trained as an agent in a simulated or virtual world such as Second Life to produce a more powerful intelligence.[7] Knowledge is represented in a network whose nodes and links carry probabilistic truth values as well as “attention values”, with the attention values resembling the weights in a neural network.

Several algorithms operate on this network, the central one being a combination of a probabilistic inference engine and a custom version of evolutionary programming Ben Goertzel’s focus these days is the SingularityNET project (http://singularitynet.io), which brings AI and blockchain together to create a decentralized open market for AIs.

It’s a medium for the creation and emergence of AGI, a way to roll out superior AI-as-a-service to every vertical market, and a way to enable everyone in the world to contribute to and benefit from AI. Ben’s passions are numerous, including AGI, life extension biology, philosophy of mind, psi, consciousness, complex systems, improvisational music, experimental fiction, theoretical physics and metaphysics. For general links to various of Ben pursuits present and past, see his website http://goertzel.org

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