Lex Fridman PodcastBen Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- June 22, 2020
- Duration
- 4h 8m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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:
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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:
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SPEAKERS
Lex Fridman
hostBen Goertzel
guest
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Ben Goertzel, Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103 explores Ben Goertzel on AGI, robot compassion, and transcending human limits Ben Goertzel discusses his lifelong motivation to build artificial general intelligence (AGI), tracing influences from science fiction, philosophy, and early AI research to his current projects OpenCog and SingularityNET.
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