Ben Goertzel

Ben Goertzel is an artificial intelligence researcher.

Ben Goertzel
Ben Goertzel after giving a talk at the 2009 Humanity+ Summit in Irvine, California
OccupationCEO and Founder of SingularityNET

Early life and education

During a June 2020 interview with Lex Fridman Ben mentioned that 3 of his Jewish great-grandparents immigrated to New York from Lithuania and border regions of Poland[1]. Goertzel is the son of Ted Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University.[2] 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.[3] Goertzel graduated with a PhD in Mathematics from Temple University under the supervision of Avi Lin in 1990.[4]

Career

Goertzel is the CEO and founder of SingularityNET, a project combining artificial intelligence and blockchain to democratize access to artificial intelligence.[5] He was a Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute).[6] He is also chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University.

Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot [7].


Views on AI

In May 2007, Goertzel spoke at a Google Tech talk about his approach to creating Artificial General Intelligence.[8] 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".[9] A "baby-like" artificial intelligence is initialized, then trained as an agent in a simulated or virtual world such as Second Life[10] to produce a more powerful intelligence.[11] 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.[12]

The 2012 documentary The Singularity by independent filmmaker Doug Wolens showcased Goertzel's vision and understanding of making general AI general thinking[13][14]

Ben Goertzel at Brain Bar

See also
  • Whole brain emulation

References
  1. Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | AI Podcast #103 with Lex Fridman, YouTube, 22 June 2020
  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. Ben Goertzel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Popper, Nathaniel. "How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech's Hold on A.I." The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  6. "The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)", The Multiverse According to Ben, 29 October 2010
  7. Vincent, James. "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.
  8. Google Tech Talk by Ben Goertzel, 30 May 2007
  9. 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.
  10. "Online worlds to be AI incubators", BBC News, 13 September 2007
  11. "Virtual worlds making artificial intelligence apps 'smarter'" Archived October 21, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Computerworld, 13 September 2007
  12. "Patterns, Hypergraphs and Embodied General Intelligence", Ben Goertzel, WCCI Panel Discussion: "A Roadmap to Human-Level Intelligence", July 2006
  13. "The Singularity: A Documentary by Doug Wolens". Ieet.org. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
  14. "Pondering Our Cyborg Future in a Documentary About the Singularity – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg". The Atlantic. 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
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