1. Ben Goertzel is a computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, and businessman.
11 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 which was founded to distribute artificial intelligence data via blockchains.
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Ben Goertzel is a leading developer of the OpenCog framework for artificial general intelligence.
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Ben Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the Sophia robot.
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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".
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At the Web Summit 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Ben Goertzel spoke out against efforts to curb AI research and that AGI is only a few years away.
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Ben Goertzel's belief is that AGI will be a net positive for humanity by assisting with societal problems such as, but not limited to, climate change.