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Ben Goertzel
CSO, 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.
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: The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, scheduled to take place March 6-9 in Arlington, Virginia. He will also be launching the first AGI Summer School in Xiamen, China in June of 2009.
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.
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SIAI Interview Series
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March 2008, AGI-08 post-conference workshop, " Stages of Ethical Development in Artificial General Intelligence Systems"
March 2008, AGI-08 post-conference workshop, " Perspectives on Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity"
March 2008, AGI-08, " OpenCog: A Software Framework for Integrative Artificial General Intelligence"
March 2008, AGI-08, " Teaching Embodied Agents, Applied to Virtual Animals in Second Life"
March 2008, AGI-08, " How Might Probabilistic Inference Emerge from the Brain?"
March 2008, AGI-08, " AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future"
November 2007 Foresight Nanotech Unconference, " Artificial General Intelligence in Virtual Worlds"
September 9, 2007, " Nine Years to a Positive Singularity - If We Really, Really Try"
July 27, 2007, " The Notion of a Technological Singularity"
Jun 2, 2007, " Ben Goertzel at Good Ancestors Principle Workshop"
October 25, 2006, " Second Annual Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop"
May 30, 2007, " Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time"
Sep 30, 2006, " AGI - What are the Risks? (panel debate)"
Sep 30, 2006, " Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence vs Narrow AI"
Sep 13, 2006, " Ten Years to the Singularity (If we Really, Really Try)"
Aug 29, 2006 , " What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to Artificial General Intelligence?"
Aug 25, 2006, " How do we more greatly ensure responsible AGI?"
Jul 29, 2006, " The Novamente Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Project"
Jul 28, 2006, " Artificial General Intelligence and its Potential Role in the Singularity"
July 7, 2006, Artificial General Intelligence
May 17, 2006, Immortality Institute conference presentation: Ben Goertzel
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AGI-08 post-conference workshop, " Perspectives on Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity
AGI-08 post-conference workshop, " Stages of Ethical Development in Artificial General Intelligence Systems"
AGI-08, " Teaching Embodied Agents, Applied to Virtual Animals in Second Life"
AGI-08, " OpenCog: A Software Framework for Integrative Artificial General Intelligence"
AGI-08, " How Might Probabilistic Inference Emerge from the Brain?"
AGI-08, " AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future"
2007 Foresight Unconference, " AGI Meets the Metaverse"
2007 Singularity Summit, " Nine Years to a Positive Singularity - If We Really, Really Try"
SIAI Interview Series, " Controlled Ascent in AGI"
SIAI Interview Series, " The Notion of a Technological Singularity"
Google Tech Talks, " Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time"
AGIRI, " What are the bottlenecks and how soon to AGI?"
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AGI-08, Introduction, AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future
2007 Foresight Vision Weekend Unconference, " AGI in Virtual Worlds"
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"
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