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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Did You Get Into AI?
My dad is a sociology professor who recently retired from Rutgers University. He was programming for a tram when I was 10 or 11 years old on like HV3000, the mainframes at Rutgers University. So yes, certainly that gave me a head start and a push towards science beyond what would have been the case with many, many different situations. When did you first fall in love with AIs? Is it the programming side of Fortran? Or maybe the sociology psychology that you picked up from your dad or something like that? And can an AI really fully model itself reflexively? Or does that lead you into some paradox?
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