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AGI Podcast

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Creating an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that is benevolent towards sentient beings and moving us towards a “positive technological singularity,” has been the lifelong mission of Dr. Ben Goertzel, the CEO, and co-founder of SingularityNET. Through this podcast, we will connect our community with leading experts in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, blockchain and other emerging technologies.
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The Todalarity is Here - Toufi Saliba

To understand why the TODA/SingularityNET collaboration makes so much sense, one has to look carefully at the essential missions and architectures of the two projects, the historical contexts that produced each of them, and the futures that each are working to build In this Podcast and series of 3 blog posts, we’re going to take a fairly deep dive — but those who bear with us till the end will be rewarded with a genuine understanding of the profound potential that SingularityNET, TODA and Todala...

Jan 17, 2020•56 min•Ep. 12

Re-engineering humans and rethinking digital networked tools - Prof. Brett Frischmann

Re-engineering humans and rethinking digital networked tools. "We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us." - ( John Culkin, 1967 ) Introduction Since Prometheus' gift of fire to humankind, humans have been using it as a tool to adapt to their environment and ultimately adapt the environment to themselves. Yet, from contract law, to media, to the roads we create, human beings have also always been shaped by their very own tools. A set of foreseen and unforeseen cons...

Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 11

The Tokenization of Knowledge - Larry Sanger

Introduction If we combine all the Wikipedias , there will be 27 billion words, written in 293 languages, spread across over 40 million articles. By crowdsourcing knowledge and offering it for free over the internet, there is little doubt that Wikipedia has provided immense value to humanity. The project, unlike many others, successfully tapped into the open source spirit of the Web 1.0 and survived the onslaught of the walled gardens that sprung up as the web evolved. As the world’s most freque...

Jun 19, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 10

Building the unimaginable - Jan-Peter Doomernik

Today’s article is about a particularly inspiring AGI Podcast revolving around decentralized efforts to achieve synoptical systems for social good, and which ties in with a new endeavor undertaken by the SingularityNET team. This week we interviewed a prominent figure in the European blockchain and AI innovation scene: Jan-Peter Doomernik. Jan-Peter is Nature 2.0 ’s Lead Architect and a Senior Business Developer working in one of Holland’s leading distribution service operators (DSO) Enexis Netb...

Apr 09, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 9

Changing the world one system at a time - A conversation with Mark

Changing the world one system at a time: a conversation with Mark Turrell. We were delighted to receive Mark Turrell on the AGI podcast for a fascinating and well-informed conversation on humanity, organising principles, structural tendencies and networks. Mark is a Harvard educated entrepreneur, educator, author and strategist. He has focused most of his life on understanding, solving and improving complex problems across industries and cultures. Be it from Europe, Africa or North America, Mark...

Mar 29, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 8

Becoming one with technology - Zoltan Istvan

Becoming one with technology, with Zoltan Istvan Though you can find transhumanists “by the millions” around the globe, you will not find many quite like Zoltan Istvan. His dedication to the cause of transhumanism has marked his political and public life and deserve a brief introduction. Zoltan is one of the most vocal figures in the U.S today fighting to bring about an informed public conversation around the topic of fully integrating technology into our lives, and ultimately to kindle a transh...

Feb 18, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 7

AGI & The Brain Code - Pascal Kaufmann

A Faith Misplaced “There’s a good reason the first flying machines weren’t mechanical bats: people tried that, and they were terrible. - Dan Robitzski In the current AI Spring , many people and corporations are betting big that the capabilities of deep learning algorithms will continue to improve as the algorithms are fed more data. Their faith is backed by the miracles performed by such algorithms: they can see, listen and do a thousand other things that were previously considered too difficult...

Oct 02, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 3

AGI & Unconditional Love - Dr. Julia Mossbridge

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 Mos...

Sep 03, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 2

AGI & The Singularity - Dr. Ben Goertzel

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 leadi...

Jul 18, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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