When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Heres how it works.
Weve all seen movies likeThe Terminator.
“I cant say theres a zero percent chance that leads to something thats bad.
Dr Ben Goertzel on stage at TOKEN2049 in Singapore with AI robots Sophia and Desdemona.
And that leads into what Ive been doing with SingularityNET.
Goertzel has two big AGI projects that are coupled together.
Desi is wearing the cat ears and has three legs.
Dr Ben Goertzel on stage at TOKEN2049 in Singapore with AI robots Sophia and Desdemona.
WhileChatGPT(and other chatbots) have advanced a lot, theyre not embodied agents,” he says.
It totally objectifies the interaction.
The goal with the AI behind these robots was starting from a different point.
Dr Ben Goertzel on stage at All That Matters 2024.
Its a fairly different approach to AGI than the ChatGPTs of the world.
Goertzel is in the former camp.
We need some fearless leader to direct things!'
Dr Goertzel at the AI For Good Global Summit 2023.
Is there anything Goertzel can do to reassure me that theres some benefit to AGI for humanity?
Can he give me some examples of good things that could happen?
Well the end of aging and death wouldnt be bad," he suggests.
TOKEN2049 is a premier crypto event, organised annually in Dubai and Singapore.
I mean that would mean getting rid of cancer and dementia and mental illness.
That would be a significant plus.
I realize at this point that hes talking about the replicators fromStar Trek.
You probably want some guard rails on there, he adds, almost casually.
No doubt AGI would be able to solve those faster than us.
I mean, the upside is pretty significant.
Well, thats one way of putting it.
At this point my head is spinning with possibilities.
“You could fuse your mind with the AGI to whatever level you felt was appropriate.
Just put them in space, to cool things down,” he says.
Theres so much we dont understand that a system even twice as smart as us would understand.
We dont know what the constraint would be.
