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Ben Goertzel
CEO, Novamente & Director of Research, SIAI Ben Goertzel is the chief science officer of Novamente LLC, a software products and services firm focused on artificial intelligence applications in the domain of natural language question-answering and creating intelligent agents for virtual worlds and massively multi-player online games. He also serves as the Director of Research at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Goertzel received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has held university positions in mathematics, computer science, and psychology in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. He has published over seventy texts on cognitive science and artificial intelligence, including Chaotic Logic, Creating Internet Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence (edited with Cassio Pennachin), and The Hidden Pattern.
He has spoken on the subject of life extension, artificial general intelligence, and the Singularity at conferences and lectures. At the Immortality Institute Life Extension Conference held in 1995, he presented a lecture entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Human Immortality". He participated in a panel discussion titled "What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to Artificial General Intelligence?" and the panel debate "AGI - What are the Risks?" He spoke on the topic of the technological singularity hypothesis in an online presentation entitled "Ten Years to the Singularity (If we Really, Really Try). He was invited to give a Google Tech Talk, called "Artificial General Intelligence: Now is the Time", at the company's headquarters on May 30th.
At Transvision 2007's July 25 session, entitled "Metaspace: Transforming Humanity," he gave a presentation called "Artificial General Intelligence in Virtual Worlds." There and at the 2007 Singularity Summit, he described Novamente's research in developing artificial intelligence agents displaying general intelligence in virtual environments like Second Life and massively multiplayer online games.
In March of 2008, he served as organizing committee member for AGI-08: The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, presenting “AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future” at the University of Memphis. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research focuses on the original and ultimate goal of AI–to create intelligence as a whole, by exploring all available paths, including theoretical and experimental computer science, cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies. He is currently organizing AGI-09, tentatively scheduled to take place in the Washington D.C. area.
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SIAI Interview Series
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May 17, 2006, Immortality Institute conference presentation: Ben Goertzel
July 7, 2006, Artificial General Intelligence
Jul 28, 2006, " Artificial General Intelligence and its Potential Role in the Singularity"
Jul 29, 2006, " The Novamente Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Project"
Aug 25, 2006, " How do we more greatly ensure responsible AGI?"
Aug 29, 2006 , " What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to Artificial General Intelligence?"
Sep 13, 2006, " Ten Years to the Singularity (If we Really, Really Try)"
Sep 30, 2006, " Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence vs Narrow AI"
Sep 30, 2006, " AGI - What are the Risks? (panel debate)"
May 30, 2007, " Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time"
October 25, 2006, " Second Annual Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop"
Jun 2, 2007, " Ben Goertzel at Good Ancestors Principle Workshop"
July 27, 2007, " The Notion of a Technological Singularity"
September 9, 2007, " Nine Years to a Positive Singularity - If We Really, Really Try"
November 2007 Foresight Nanotech Unconference, " Artificial General Intelligence in Virtual Worlds"
March 2008, AGI-08, " AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future"
transcripts
AGIRI, " What are the bottlenecks and how soon to AGI?"
Google Tech Talks, " Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time"
SIAI Interview Series, " The Notion of a Technological Singularity"
SIAI Interview Series, " Controlled Ascent in AGI"
2007 Singularity Summit, " Nine Years to a Positive Singularity - If We Really, Really Try"
2007 Foresight Unconference, " AGI Meets the Metaverse"
AGI-08, " AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future"
audio
Transvision 2007, " Artificial General Intelligence in Virtual Worlds"
SIAI Interview Series, " The Notion of a Technological Singularity"
SIAI Interview Series, " Controlled Ascent in AGI"
Singularity Summit 2007, " Nine Years to a Positive Singularity - If We Really, Really Try"
2007 Foresight Vision Weekend Unconference, " AGI in Virtual Worlds"
AGI-08, Introduction, AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future
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