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At the recent Beyond AI conference in the Czech Republic, researcher Ben Goertzel weighed in on the main question of the event, 'Why is AGI a holy grail of the AI field?'

At the third annual international conference Beyond AI the focus was on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). However, instead of asking where the AGI field stands and what methods and algorithms should be explored, the conference asked the question:

Why is AGI a holy grail of the AI field?

During his keynote talk, artificial intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel examined this question.

During the talk (video above), Goertzel discusses and shows some of the work he and his team are currently doing using the OpenCog system to control robots.  They are mainly using the Zeno bot from David Hanson, but are also generally experimenting with other robotic platforms.  Increasingly Goertzel is employing what is known as embodiment in his work to achieve AGI.

"I don't think a robot body is absolutely critical for achieving human-level AI, but I think it is very convenient," he says.  "Our own intelligence is heavily adapted to a body that we grew up in and that we evolved for, so with some approximation of a human-like body, it makes it easy to teach and develop a human-like mind."

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Goertzel is Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series.

His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas. He has published a dozen scientific books, 100+ technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles. Before entering the software industry he served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, in the US, Australia and New Zealand.


SOURCE  Beyond AI

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