Ben Goertzel
Ben Goertzel | |
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Born | 8 December 1966 |
Occupation | CEO and founder of SingularityNET |
Website | goertzel |
Ben Goertzel is an artificial intelligence researcher, and CEO and founder of SingularityNET.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Three of Goertzel's Jewish great-grandparents emigrated to New York from Lithuania and Poland.[2] Goertzel's father is Ted Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University.[3] Goertzel 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.[4] Goertzel graduated with a PhD in Mathematics from Temple University under the supervision of Avi Lin in 1990.[5]
Career[edit]
Goertzel is the CEO and founder of SingularityNET, a project combining artificial intelligence and blockchain to democratize access to artificial intelligence.[6] He was a Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.[7] He is also chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University.[citation needed]
Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot.[8]
Views on AI[edit]
In May 2007, Goertzel spoke at a Google tech talk about his approach to creating artificial general intelligence.[9] 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".[10] A "baby-like" artificial intelligence is initialized, then trained as an agent in a simulated or virtual world such as Second Life[11] to produce a more powerful intelligence.[12] 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.[13]
The 2012 documentary The Singularity by independent filmmaker Doug Wolens showcased Goertzel's vision and understanding of making general AI general thinking.[14][15]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Walch, Kathleen. "Is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) On The Horizon? Interview With Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO & Founder, SingularityNET Foundation". Forbes. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | AI Podcast #103 with Lex Fridman, YouTube, 22 June 2020
- ^ Pauling's Prizes, The New York Times, 5 November 1995
- ^ Goertzel, Benjamin (1985). Nonclassical Arithmetics and Calculi. Simon's Rock of Bard College.
- ^ Ben Goertzel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Popper, Nathaniel (20 October 2018). "How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech's Hold on A.I." The New York Times. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
- ^ "The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)", The Multiverse According to Ben, 29 October 2010
- ^ Vincent, James (10 November 2017). "Sophia the robot's co-creator says the bot may not be true AI, but it is a work of art". The Verge. The Verge. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ Goertzel, Ben (30 May 2007). "Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time". GoogleTalks Archive. Retrieved 31 December 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Online worlds to be AI incubators", BBC News, 13 September 2007
- ^ "Virtual worlds making artificial intelligence apps 'smarter'" Archived 21 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Computerworld, 13 September 2007
- ^ "Patterns, Hypergraphs and Embodied General Intelligence", Ben Goertzel, WCCI Panel Discussion: "A Roadmap to Human-Level Intelligence"[permanent dead link], July 2006
- ^ "The Singularity: A Documentary by Doug Wolens". Ieet.org. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
- ^ "Pondering Our Cyborg Future in a Documentary About the Singularity – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg". The Atlantic. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
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