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"I is someone else" -- Arthur Rimbaud
I was born in 1966 in Rio de Janeiro to 2 human parents — I'm a dual US/Brazil citizen and Hong Kong Permanent Resident, but above all am conscious of my role as a native and co-creator of the surreal and hyperreal eurycosm ... and am massively looking forward to feeling my human incarnation transcend into transhuman form.... In the Dark Ages of the 1980s I got a math PhD, but for a long time I've been focusing my time most centrally on AI and its various applications. I’m focused on creating benevolent superhuman AGI; and applying AI to areas like medicine, blockchain, robotics, media, finance, arts, music and on and on…. I also love experimental fiction and music, philosophy, foundational physics, parapsychology, functional programming, wandering randomly in the forest, hanging out with my wife and 5 kids and granddaughter, and ... lots of other stuff...
Dr. Ben Goertzel is a cross-disciplinary scientist, entrepreneur and author. Born in Brazil to American parents, in 2020 after a long stretch living in Hong Kong he relocated his primary base of operations to the rural Seattle area. He leads the SingularityNET Foundation, the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society which runs the annual Artificial General Intelligence conference.
Dr. Goertzel also chairs the futurist nonprofit Humanity+, and serves as Chief Scientist of AI firms Singularity Studio, Rejuve, SingularityDAO and Xccelerando Media, all parts of the SingularityNET ecosystem. As Chief Scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics, he led the software team behind the Sophia robot; as Chief AI Scientist of Awakening Health he leads the team crafting the mind behind Sophia’s little sister Grace.
Dr. Goertzel’s research work encompasses multiple areas including artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds, gaming, parapsychology, theoretical physics and more. He has published 25+ scientific books, ~150 technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles, and given talks at a vast number of events of all sorts around the globe.
Before entering the software industry Dr. Goertzel obtained his PhD in mathematics from Temple University in 1989, and served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, in the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Dr. Goertzel is married to computational linguist Ruiting Lian, and has 5 children and one grandchild. Along with his technical and philosophical work he enjoys creating experimental fiction and music and hiking, backpacking, kayaking and other outdoor activities.
Large portions of my mind are frustrated by writing -- since my thoughts and intuitions are so nonlinear and often nondimensional/ nongeometric -- but I seem to spend an awful lot of time writing anyways. My books have spanned hardcore science/math, informal discussion of social and cultural and futuristic themes, and a few explicit forays into experimental fiction. Altogether I think they have a fair amount of interesting stuff to say about mind, humanity, transhumanity, AI, society, universe, multiverse, eurycosm and so forth.... Free PDFs of many of my works are available online at various locations, or there's always Amazon.com and etc. etc.
Non-Fiction FictionI've been an "evenings and weekends" improviser (mostly on the keyboard) and composer since the mid-1980s. I’ve composed hundreds of songs and recorded dozens of hours of playing, but I never seem to find time to make nice recordings of my stuff ... so the available sound/video files are pretty crude, but so it goes.... I have a bunch of multi-track recordings sitting in sequencer files but there's a benevolent Singularity to spawn so I'm not sure when I'll get to mixing them down ;-) ....
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