AIW.022.VIKING BOER-AI WATCH-Artificial General Intelligence [Ben Goertzell]

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AIW.022.VIKING BOER – AI (AGI) WATCH – Artificial General Intelligence [Ben Goertzel]

Ben Goertzel – Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast

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Jun 22, 2020 Lex Fridman Podcast
Ben Goertzel is one of the most interesting minds in the artificial intelligence community. He is the founder of SingularityNET, designer of OpenCog AI framework, formerly a director of research at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the Sophia Robot. He has been a central figure in the AGI community for many years, including in the Conference on Artificial General Intelligence.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Ben. Here’s the outline:
0:00 – Introduction
3:20 – Books that inspired you
6:38 – Are there intelligent beings all around us?
13:13 – Dostoevsky
15:56 – Russian roots
20:19 – When did you fall in love with AI?
31:30 – Are humans good or evil?
42:04 – Colonizing mars
46:53 – Origin of the term AGI
55:56 – AGI community
1:12:36 – How to build AGI?
1:36:47 – OpenCog
2:25:32 – SingularityNET
2:49:33 – Sophia
3:16:02 – Coronavirus
3:24:14 – Decentralized mechanisms of power
3:40:16 – Life and death
3:42:44 – Would you live forever?
3:50:26 – Meaning of life
3:58:03 – Hat
3:58:46 – Question for AGI
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