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
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