Ben Goertzel
From AGIRI.org
Ben Goertzel, PhD
1133 19th St NW 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
Cell: 240.505.6518
Fax: 240.238.2630
Email: ben@goertzel.org
- Primary founder of AGIRI.org
- CEO and Chief Scientist of Novamente LLC
- CEO of BioMind LLC
- Director of Research, Singularity Institute
- Founder of Webmind Inc, CTO and Chairman from 1997-2001
- PhD in mathematics from Temple University in 1989
- University faculty positions in mathematics, computer science, and psychology, in the US, New Zealand and Australia
- 80+ research papers, journalistic articles, and 5 scholarly books dealing with topics in the cognitive sciences
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Recent AI & Virtual World talks by Goertzel
Foresight Institute’s 2007 Vision Weekend
Nov 3-4, 2007 at Yahoo Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA.
Goertzel's talk: AGI Meets the Metaverse
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Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo
October 10-11, 2007, San Jose, CA
Goertzel's talk: AI in virtual worlds
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Singularity Summit 2007
Sept 8-9, 2007, San Francisco, CA
Goertzel is the Director of Research for the Singularity Institute
Goertzel's talk: Nine Years To a Positive Singularity – If We Really, Really Try
Goertzel shares the stage with Peter Norvig, Rodney Brooks, Ray Kurzweil and others.
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Transvision 2007
July 23-26, Chicago, IL
Goertzel presented on a panel with Marvin Minsky and Second Life’s Philip Rosedale
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Google Tech Talk (special invite)
May 30, 2007, Mountain View, CA
Topic: Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time
Goertzel delivers Google TechTalk with an introduction made by Peter Norvig
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AGIRI Workshop 2006
May 20-23, 2006; N. Bethesda, MD
Theme: Transitioning from Narrow AI to Artificial General Intelligence
Focus: Grounding Linguistic Relationships in Nonlinguistic Reality
Goertzel co-organized, co-authored and presented on:
- Introduction: Aspects of Artificial General Intelligence
- Four Contemporary AGI Designs: a Comparative Treatment
- Stages of Cognitive Development in Uncertain-Logic-Based AI Systems
- Indefinite Probabilities for General Intelligence
- Virtual Easter Egg Hunting: A Thought-Experiment in Embodied Social Learning, Cognitive Process Integration, and the Dynamic Emergence of the Self
- Probabilistic Logic Based Reinforcement Learning of Simple Embodied Behaviors in a 3D Simulation World
- Panel Discussion: What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
- Videos: A Practical Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence
- Introduction: Aspects of Artificial General Intelligence
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IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
July 16-21, 2006; Vancouver, BC Canada
Goertzel was a panelist, Roadmap to Human-Level Intelligence
Upcoming AI & Virtual World talks by Goertzel
The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08)
FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis
In cooperation with AAAI, March 1-3, 2008
- Goertzel, AGI-08 Conference Program Committee Co-Chair
- Goertzel, AGI-08 Workshop Program Committee Chair
Goertzel has an introductory talk and 3 co-authored paper talks scheduled for the AGI-08 Conference:
- Review of Past and Present AGI Research (opening remarks by Goertzel)
- Probabilistic Quantifier Logic for General Intelligence: An Indefinite Probabilities Approach
- An Integrative Methodology for Teaching Embodied Non-Linguistic Agents, Applied to Virtual Animals in Second Life
- How Might Probabilistic Reasoning Emerge from the Brain?
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WCCI-2008 in Hong Kong
June 1-6, 2008; Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Goertzel is a co-organizer of a special session:
Cognitive Architectures: Towards Human-Level Intelligence
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Virtual Worlds 2008
April 3-4, 2008, New York City
Goertzel is an invited speaker
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Singularity Summit 2008
October 2008, Silicon Valley
Goertzel is an invited speaker
