Ben Goertzel is a cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, CEO and founder of SingularityNET, leader of the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society, and chair of Humanity+.
12 Facts About Ben Goertzel
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Ben Goertzel's father is Ted Ben Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University.
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Ben Goertzel left high school after the tenth grade to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Quantitative Studies.
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Ben Goertzel graduated with a PhD in mathematics from Temple University under the supervision of Avi Lin in 1990, at age 23.
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Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a project combining artificial intelligence and blockchain to democratize access to artificial intelligence.
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Ben Goertzel was a Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute.
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Ben Goertzel is chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University.
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Ben Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot.
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Dr Ben Goertzel is a leading developer of the OpenCog framework for artificial general intelligence.
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Ben Goertzel has published many technical papers on the OpenCog architecture.
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In May 2007, Ben Goertzel spoke at a Google tech talk about his approach to creating artificial general intelligence.
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Ben Goertzel defines intelligence as the ability to detect patterns in the world and in the agent itself, measurable in terms of emergent behavior of "achieving complex goals in complex environments".