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 research at 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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Ben's Website: https://goertzel.org/
AGI Conference: http://agi-conf.org/2020/
SingularityNET: https://singularitynet.io/
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OpenCog: https://opencog.org/

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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
3:20 - Books that inspired you
6:38 - Are there intelligent beings all around us?
13:13 - Dostoevsky
15:56 - Russian roots
20:19 - When did you fall in love with AI?
31:30 - Are humans good or evil?
42:04 - Colonizing mars
46:53 - Origin of the term AGI
55:56 - AGI community
1:12:36 - How to build AGI?
1:36:47 - OpenCog
2:25:32 - SingularityNET
2:49:33 - Sophia
3:16:02 - Coronavirus
3:24:14 - Decentralized mechanisms of power
3:40:16 - Life and death
3:42:44 - Would you live forever?
3:50:26 - Meaning of life
3:58:03 - Hat
3:58:46 - Question for AGI

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