Lex Fridman Podcast
#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
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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 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.
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– Books that inspired you
– Are there intelligent beings all around us?
– Dostoevsky
– Russian roots
– When did you fall in love with AI?
– Are humans good or evil?
– Colonizing mars
– Origin of the term AGI
– AGI community
– How to build AGI?
– OpenCog
– SingularityNET
– Sophia
– Coronavirus
– Decentralized mechanisms of power
– Life and death
– Would you live forever?
– Meaning of life
– Hat
– Question for AGI
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