Ben Goertzel

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Ben Goertzel
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Ben Goertzel after giving a talk at the 2009 Humanity+ Summit in Irvine, California
OccupationAI scientist

Ben Goertzel is an artificial intelligence researcher.

Goertzel is the chief scientist of 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).[1]

Early life[edit]

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[edit]

In May 2007, Goertzel spoke at a Google Tech talk about his approach to creating Artificial General Intelligence.[4] 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".[5] A "baby-like" artificial intelligence is initialized, then trained as an agent in a simulated or virtual world such as Second Life[6] 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.[8]

Media appearances[edit]

2012: The documentary The Singularity by independent filmmaker Doug Wolens showcased Goertzel's vision and understanding of making general AI general thinking[9][10]

2018: Goertzel appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast No. 1211[11]

2019: Goertzel appeared on the Epicenter podcast No. 275[12]

2019: Goertzel appeared on Teamz Blockchain Summit at Tokyo, on April 6.[13]

Ben Goertzel at Brain Bar

2019: Goertzel held a lecture at Budapest Brain Bar

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)", The Multiverse According to Ben, 29 October 2010
  2. ^ Pauling's Prizes, The New York Times, 5 November 1995
  3. ^ Goertzel, Benjamin (1985). Nonclassical Arithmetics and Calculi. Simon's Rock of Bard College.
  4. ^ Google Tech Talk by Ben Goertzel, 30 May 2007
  5. ^ Roberts, Jacob (2016). "Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence". Distillations. 2 (2): 14–23. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Online worlds to be AI incubators", BBC News, 13 September 2007
  7. ^ "Virtual worlds making artificial intelligence apps 'smarter'" Archived October 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Computerworld, 13 September 2007
  8. ^ "Patterns, Hypergraphs and Embodied General Intelligence", Ben Goertzel, WCCI Panel Discussion: "A Roadmap to Human-Level Intelligence"[permanent dead link], July 2006
  9. ^ "The Singularity: A Documentary by Doug Wolens". Ieet.org. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  10. ^ "Pondering Our Cyborg Future in a Documentary About the Singularity – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg". The Atlantic. 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  11. ^ "Joe Rogan Experience #1211 - Dr. Ben Goertzel". The Joe Rogan Experience. December 4, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2018.
  12. ^ "Ben Goertzel: SingularityNET – The Global AI Network and Marketplace". Epicenter. February 20, 2019. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
  13. ^ Konno, Katsuya (2019-03-25). "TEAMZ Blockchain Summit Tokyo (Conference)". TEAMZ Blockchain Summit Tokyo (Conference). Retrieved 2019-04-21.

External links[edit]

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