Artificial intelligence researcher

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+. He helped popularize the term 'artificial general intelligence'.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
  • 2.1 Views on AI
• 3 Bibliography
• 4 See also
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life and education

Three of Goertzel's Jewish great-grandparents emigrated to New York from Lithuania and Poland. Goertzel's father is Ted Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University. 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 Quan*ative Studies. Goertzel graduated with a PhD in Mathematics from Temple University under the supervision of Avi Lin in 1990, at age 23.

Career

Goertzel is the CEO and founder of SingularityNET, a project combining artificial intelligence and blockchain to democratize access to artificial intelligence. He was a Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Ins*ute. He is also chief scientist and chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; chairman of the OpenCog Foundation; and advisor to Singularity University.

Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot.

Views on AI

Dr. Goertzel is a leading developer of the OpenCog framework for artificial general intelligence. He has published many technical papers on the OpenCog architecture.

Ben Goertzel at Brain Bar

In May 2007, Goertzel spoke at a Google tech talk about his approach to creating artificial general intelligence. He 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". A "baby-like" artificial intelligence is initialized, then trained as an agent in a simulated or virtual world such as Second Life to produce a more powerful intelligence. Knowledge is represented in a network whose nodes and links carry probabilistic truth values as well as "attention values", with the attention values resembling the weights in a neural network. Several algorithms operate on this network, the central one being a combination of a probabilistic inference engine and a custom version of evolutionary programming.

The 2012 do*entary The Singularity by independent filmmaker Doug Wolens showcased Goertzel's vision and understanding of making artificial general intelligence.

Bibliography

• Ben Goertzel (1992). The Structure of Intelligence: A New Mathematical Model of Mind. Springer.

• Ben Goertzel (1992). The Evolving Mind. Gordon and Breach.

• Ben Goertzel (1994). Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought, and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science. Plenum.

• Ben Goertzel and Ted Goertzel (1996). Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics. Basic.

• Ben Goertzel (2001). Creating Internet Intelligence. Springer.

• Ben Goertzel (2005). Artificial General Intelligence. Springer.

• Ben Goertzel (2006). Probabilistic Logic Networks: A Comprehensive Framework for Uncertain Inference. Plenum.

• Ben Goertzel (2006). The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind. Brown Walker.

• Ben Goertzel (2007). The Path to Posthumanity. Academica.

• Ben Goertzel (2010). A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age. Humanity+ Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2011). Real-World Reasoning: Scalable Spatial Temporal and Causal Inference. Atlantis Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2012). Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence. Atlantis Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2014). Engineering General Intelligence, Volumes 1 & 2. Atlantis Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2014). Between Ape and Artilect: Conversations with Pioneers of AGI and Other Transformative Technologies. Humanity+ Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2014). Ten Years to the Singularity If We Really Really Try. Humanity+ Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2015). The End of the Beginning: Life, Society and Economy on the Brink of the Singularity. Humanity+ Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2016). AGI Revolution: An Inside View of the Rise of Artificial General Intelligence. Humanity+ Press.

• Ben Goertzel (2018). The Evidence for Psi: Thirteen Empirical Research Reports. McFarland.

See also

• Artificial general intelligence
• Paraconsistent logic

References

External links

• Ben Goertzel at arXiv.org
• TEDxBerkeley – "Decentralized AI" (video:16min, March 2019)
• SingularityNET