85. Ben Goertzel (A.I. Inventor) – The State of the Art of Artificial General Intelligence

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

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🗓️ 11 February 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Ben Goertzel is a hugely influential computer scientist and author in the area of artificial general intelligence, among others. Just a few of the many hats Ben wears or has worn: Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics which makes some of the most advanced robots in the world, Co-founder of AIDYA – artificial intelligence for financial trading, and Chairman of the OpenCog Foundation, an open source project to build a radically new form of artificial intelligence. What's real and what's hype in all the talk about artificial intelligence these days? Will teaching AI to solve humanity's biggest problems keep robots from harming us if and when they become autonomous? Is the human brain, with all its limitations, a good model for AI at all? In this episode, Ben explains to Jason some of the theory behind various existing and potential AI systems, weighs in on the idea of the Singularity, and touches on his "panpsychist" belief that consciousness is an omnipresent force of nature, suggesting that they drop LSD together at some point to discuss it in depth. Surprise conversation starter interview clips in this episode: Alva Noë: “You are Not Your Brain” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Jason Gots and you're listening to Think Again a Big Think podcast.
0:08.0	Started in 2008, Big Think is a kind of online think tank of big ideas from some of the most creative thinkers on the planet.
0:17.0	On the podcast, we revisit these ideas in new and different ways.
0:21.6	Our producers surprised me and my guests with short interview clips from Big Think's archives,
0:26.6	ideas that we didn't come here necessarily expecting to discuss.
0:29.6	I'm very happy to be here today with Ben Gertzel, a hugely influential computer scientist,
0:34.6	an author in the area of artificial general
0:37.8	intelligence among many others just a few of the many hats Ben wears or has
0:42.2	worn chief scientist of Hanson robotics which makes some of the most
0:46.1	advanced robots in the world co-founder of how do I say this idea idea idea
0:51.8	okay artificial intelligence for financial trading and chairman of the open say this, Aidea? Idea. Idea. Okay. Artificial Intelligence for Financial Trading.
0:56.0	And Chairman of the OpenCog Foundation, which is an open source project to build
1:01.0	a radically new form of artificial intelligence.
1:03.0	Welcome to think again, Ben.
1:05.0	Oh, thanks for having me.
1:06.0	Yeah, I'm so glad you can make it.
1:08.0	I want to start with something kind of anecdotal, which is that I listen to
1:13.2	probably not surprisingly a lot of podcasts. And I was listening to one called The Organist,
1:21.0	which is out of, it's on KCRW in San Francisco. And they had an episode called Wish You Were Here,
1:28.8	which is about artificial intelligence.
1:31.7	And I don't know if you're familiar with this episode,
1:33.7	but I bet you are familiar with this instance of AI.
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