Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103

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. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: - Jordan Harbinger Show: https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/ - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex EPISODE LINKS: Ben's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bengoertzel Ben's Website: https://goertzel.org/ AGI Conference: http://agi-conf.org/2020/ SingularityNET: https://singularitynet.io/ SingularityNET Twitter: https://twitter.com/singularity_net OpenCog: https://opencog.org/ PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 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 CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman