#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence

About this episode

<p>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 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.</p> <p>Support this podcast by supporting these sponsors:<br /> &#8211; Jordan Harbinger Show: <a href="https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/">https://jordanharbinger.com/lex/</a><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br /> </span>&#8211; MasterClass: <a href="https://masterclass.com/lex">https://masterclass.com/lex</a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.</span>&#160;If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to <a href="https://lexfridman.com/ai">https://lexfridman.com/ai</a> or connect with @lexfridman on <a href="https://twitter.com/lexfridman">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/@lexfridman">Medium</a>, or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman">YouTube</a> where you can watch the video versions of these conversations. If you enjoy the podcast, please rate it 5 stars on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artificial-intelligence/id1434243584">Apple Podcasts</a>, follow on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL">Spotify</a>, or support it on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman">Patreon</a>.</p> <p>Here&#8217;s the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.</p> <p>OUTLINE:<br /> 00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br /> 03:20 &#8211; Books that inspired you<br /> 06:38 &#8211; Are there intelligent beings all around us?<br /> 13:13 &#8211; Dostoevsky<br /> 15:56 &#8211; Russian roots<br /> 20:19 &#8211; When did you fall in love with AI?<br /> 31:30 &#8211; Are humans good or evil?<br /> 42:04 &#8211; Colonizing mars<br /> 46:53 &#8211; Origin of the term AGI<br /> 55:56 &#8211; AGI community<br /> 1:12:36 &#8211; How to build AGI?<br /> 1:36:47 &#8211; OpenCog<br /> 2:25:32 &#8211; SingularityNET<br /> 2:49:33 &#8211; Sophia<br /> 3:16:02 &#8211; Coronavirus<br /> 3:24:14 &#8211; Decentralized mechanisms of power<br /> 3:40:16 &#8211; Life and death<br /> 3:42:44 &#8211; Would you live forever?<br /> 3:50:26 &#8211; Meaning of life<br /> 3:58:03 &#8211; Hat<br /> 3:58:46 &#8211; Question for AGI</p>