Ben Goertzel At TEDx Hong Kong

 Artificial Intelligence  

In an interesting TED talk from a recent event in Hong Kong,  AI researcher Ben Goertzel describes his previous work towards developing AGI, and how he is now working with Hanson Robotics.

Ben Goertzel is an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He is currently Chief Science Officer of Hong Kong financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings, and also leads Novamente LLC, a privately held software company that attempts to develop a form of strong AI, which he calls “Artificial General Intelligence”.

Goertzel is also the CEO of Biomind LLC, a company that provides AI-based bioinformatics services. He is Vice Chair of futurist organization Humanity+ and he is an advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and formerly its Director of Research. He divides his time between residences in Hong Kong, and Rockville Maryland.

In this interesting TED talk from a recent event in Hong Kong, Goertzel describes his previous work towards developing AGI, and how he is now working with Hanson Robotics. New research is now being undertaken to combine Goertzel's OpenCog AI framework to operate a Hanson Robokind robot.

Goertzel, in moving towards the robotics approach seemingly has embraced embodiment as a path to AGI.  "We always knew we would have to move from virtual agents to physical robots if we wanted to end up with a human-like intelligence," he states.


SOURCE  TEDx Hong Kong

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