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Lex Fridman Podcast

#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

Jun 22, 2020
Ben Goertzel, Founder of SingularityNET and a pioneer in Artificial General Intelligence, dives deep into the future of AI. He discusses his literary inspirations, including the impact of sci-fi on his journey. Goertzel explores the potential of intelligence beyond human understanding, the philosophical influences of Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, and the ethical dilemmas of AGI. He shares insights on projects like OpenCog and the Sophia robot, and the vision behind decentralized AI systems. The conversation also touches on humanity's journey to Mars and the quest for immortality through technology.
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Quick takeaways

  • AGI community has grown in recent years with conferences and workshops dedicated to discussing AGI and its implications.
  • OpenCog is an open-source software platform that utilizes a weighted labeled hypergraph, known as the AtomSpace.

Deep dives

Origin of the term AGI

The term AGI, or artificial general intelligence, was coined in the early 2000s by a group of researchers working on creating thinking machines that could rival human-level intelligence. The term AGI was chosen because it was immediately comprehensible to people with a technical background and it emphasized the goal of achieving general human-level intelligence.

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