Episode #002 – Behold the power of A.I. - with Dr. Ben Goertzel

In this podcast, we discuss the opportunities of artificial intelligence, particularly Artificial General Intelligence, blockchain, genomics, and the downsides of these technologies.

Guest: Dr. Ben Goertzel, (@bengoertzel), a transhumanist, mathematician and is one of the world’s foremost experts in Artificial General Intelligence. He has decades of expertise applying AI to practical problems in areas ranging from natural language processing and data mining to robotics, video gaming, aging, national security, Covid-19, and bioinformatics. Ben is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace and chairman of the OpenCog Foundation, a project that aims to build an open-source artificial intelligence framework. Ben was also the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created Sophia the Robot.

Your hosts of this episode are: Dr. Axel Schumacher (@MethyLogix), and Dr. Darrol Baker (@darrolb)

SingularityNet: https://singularitynet.io/

SingularityNET lets anyone create, share, and monetize AI services at scale. The world’s first decentralized AI network has arrived.

Open Cog Foundation: https://opencog.org/

OpenCog is an open-source software project aimed at directly confronting the AGI challenge, using mathematical and biological inspiration and professional software engineering techniques.

If you are a researcher you may also want to check out https://www.shivom.io/​, a precision medicine data-sharing platform that allows organizations to share & analyze genetic data. The vision of Shivom is to revolutionize healthcare systems, making next-level precision medicine available to all people on earth.

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