AGI Podcast

Preparing for a technological future - Marko Klemetti

AGI & The New Space Frontier - Alison Lowndes

The Political Economy of AGI - Azeem Azhar

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/1KLSA5c4_cqAzK8BwoaAahqnQ5OVRX99tGonrxA2T4FaVh8Iw4NiUZOjMRwfdPonrDjqhN7iMQwvJD0ffpRZY5Gf9qkAMG123DByW5CFJUgdDeIioA9_aDb6pAYLaK7fPy_Zha-U)

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/JJoJFZDS6Cf0zV9WnAj0YynKp0VCDYO47l2D3Q2VSD_HdogNtA6EGGveBSNS9Ggpum7Q5LzduSmfUYoJVBPaqpSTHJX1WKoJd4-HJgcyhRpZj7MkFRZYjWUFYxsPda16SCLR6QtT)   In this our second Episode we welcome our first guest to the series, Dr. Julia Mossbridge, A leading Cognitive Neuroscientist, Scholar and Author. Julia has a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders which she obtained from the Northwestern University. She also holds a Masters Degree in Neuroscience From the University of California San Francisco, and she received her B.A. with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College in Ohio. She is the Founder and Scientific Director of the Mossbridge Institute, a fellow Institute of Noetic Sciences, and a visiting Scholar at Northwestern University. Dr. Mossbridge is widely published and has authored such books as ‘Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness’, and the soon to be released ‘The Premonition Code: The Science of Precognition, How Sensing the Future Can Change Your Life’ Julia also is the principle founder of ‘Loving AI’, a research project addressing how AI agents can communicate unconditional love to humans through conversations that adapt to the unique needs of each user. It is a collaboration between SingularityNET, Hanson Robotics and Lia Inc. As always if you are interested to know more about SingularityNET or the Loving AI project, or indeed if want to find out more about any of our guests in general, please do drop us a line at info@SingularityNET.io

AGI & The Singularity - Dr. Ben Goertzel In this inaugural episode we have the good fortune of interviewing the founder and CEO of Singularitynet, Dr. Ben Goertzel. Having had a chance to spend quite a bit of time with Ben in Hong Kong, we were struck by not only the pace at which Ben and the team were moving the foundation forward, but also Ben’s earnest and unwavering commitment to creating a positive technological singularity. Who is Dr. Ben Goertzel? Dr. Ben Goertzel is the CEO and leading AI expert for SingularityNET, and chief Scientist of Hanson robotics, a Hong kong robotics company that is the creator of Sophia one of the world’s most advances humanoid robots. Ben also serves as chairman of the artificial general intelligence society which hosts the annual AGI research conference series, its upcoming in August 2018, and the opencog foundation an organisation leading international development of advanced opensource AI tools. Dr. Goertzel is one of the world’s foremost experts in Artificial Intelligence publishing over 141 scientific articles and 12 scientific books in the field of AI with the focus on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and thinking machines with general cognitive capabilities of the human level and beyond. He also has decades of expertise applying AI to practical problems in areas ranging from natural language processing and Datamining to robotics, video gaming, national security, and bio informatics. Before relocating to HongKong in 2011 Dr. Goertzel held an executive roles AI consulting and product development firms, prior to that he served as a faculty member in mathematics at the university of Nevada las Vegas, in cognitive science at the university of western Australia, and in computer science at the Lucardo New Zealand