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.

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OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

03:20 – Books that inspired you

06:38 – 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