My resume’ is here.
Basic Info about Me: American male, born 1966 to human parents — hoping to become radically transhuman one day, in some manner that lets me fully appreciate the transition. Married … 3 kids so far, born 1989, 1993, 1997; generally surrounded by many small furry and feathery animals.
Back in third grade in 1974, I looked like that picture to the right. I don’t look so much like that anymore.
These days I’m living in a village in the New Territories of Hong Kong, though I seem to be off somewhere else at least 1/4 of the time….
I have a math PhD, but am currently working mostly on artificial intelligence and its various applications
I’m focused on creating benevolent superhuman artificial general intelligence; and applying AI to areas like financial prediction, bioinformatics, robotics and gaming…. I also love avante-garde fiction and weird music, philosophy, mathematics, wandering randomly in the forest, and lots of other stuff.
See my bio page for more professional and personal biographical details.
I’ve given dozens of speeches on technical and futurist topics in the last few years. One of my more popular talks was Ten Years to a Positive Singularity, If We Really, Really Try., delivered via Skype to the TransVision 2007 conference in Helsinki, from my home in Maryland. See also the text for that talk. (It’s been a few years since then, and unfortunately the human race hasn’t been “really, really trying”, but we’ve made some progress even so!)
Various links relevant to my life or my doings:
Blogs etc.
- The Multiverse According to Ben
- My Twitter page
- H+ Magazine, for which I write frequently
- A Cosmist Manifesto (a book in blog format)
Research
- My CV including a list of my research papers (not usually kept current)
- Educational videos of AI in virtual worlds (largely obsolete, will post new ones “soon”)
- My Books
- Dynamical Psychology E-Journal (which I co-edit, since 1995)
- Some (ancient) essays and journalistic articles
- More recent writings of various sorts
- In a better universe, this page would contain links to all my research papers … right now it may contain a few…
- A page giving my views on psi, a topic I’d love to research, but haven’t found the time
Nonprofit Organizations
- OpenCog: Software project I co-founded, focused on building an open-source thinking machine
- Artificial General Intelligence conference series … AGI-11 will be on Google’s campus in Mountain View in August 2011
- H+: Humanity Plus … a futurist advocacy group, of which I’m currently Vice Chair (and was Chair for a while)
- AGIRI: Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, a largely dormant website that
still has some useful information on it
Commercial Ventures
- Aidyia Holdings: AI-based financial prediction
- Novamente LLC: AGI research; AI consulting and software development, with special expertise in machine learning, language processing, and intelligent agents for games and virtual worlds.
- Biomind LLC: Advanced AI for bioinformatic data analysis, especially microarray and
SNP data - Genescient: Using bioinformatics and other tools to exploit the genomes of long-lived flies to create therapeutics to combat age-associated disease
- Igenesis: Consulting/R&D firm doing AI and other advanced software development, based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Literature and Music
Personal and Family Photos
- PicasaWeb Photo Gallery (yeah, I’m one of the 3 people who uses that instead of Flickr or whatever)
- Some old family photos
Websites of my Offspring
(mostly unmaintained & long obsolete)
- Zebradillo
- Le Puppy and the more interesting Le Puppy Blog
- Jah Turtle
- Teleportopia
Websites of my Parents
- Ted Goertzel’s Research
- Pathways PA, the social service agency my mother runs
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Terje Dønvold says:
June 22, 2015 at 7:45 pm (UTC 0)
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What do you think?
Best regards
Terje
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GOD IS THE UNIVERSE says:
December 8, 2016 at 6:34 am (UTC 0)
Artificial gene synthesis of Human DNA using Artificial Intelligence.
amy(Jungyeon) WEE says:
April 11, 2017 at 2:29 am (UTC 0)
Dear Ben, The Kyunghyang Daily Newspaper Korea’s TOP ranked Newspaper was founded in 1946 would like to invite you as KEY speaker at The Innovation and Insights Forum 2017_The 4th Industrial Revolution to be held on 28th of June, 2017 at The Lotte Hotel, Seoul, South Korea.
THE Innovation and Insight Forum is the biggest and most influential annual forum in South Korea, attended by around 1000 business leaders of banking & finance, industry and government officials from South Korea & beyond. It has proved to be an effective venue to reach elites and leaders of the Korean business, financial and government circles. also Minister of Finance and Economy confirmed to attend at Forum and specially The President of ROK will attend at this forum and Prime Minister also will attend together
The Forum will cover expenses related to business class flights and executive room of accommodation of 2 nights and 3 days, and also provide honorarium. Given the tight schedule in relation to the travel and administrative arrangements, we would be grateful if you could respond to me with your commitment to participate as soon as possible.
We would be honored with your participation in what is expected to be a stimulating forum and look forward to seeing you in Seoul.
Keyspeakers
-Tim Berners Lee_WWW founder
-JB Strabel_Co-founder and CTO of Tesla Motors
-DJ Patil-former deputy Minister(USA), The First Data Scientist in USA , World 7th Data Scientist
-Astro Teller CEO of Google X
-Laurence Kemball-Cook, CEO and founder of Pavegen
-Samsung
-Hyundai Motors
-SK Telecom
-Kathryn Parsons_CEO of Decoded, Digital Education Co.
-GE
-Hiroshi Tsujino, CEO of Honda R&D Center X
Best Regards.
Amy (Jungyeon)Wee/ Director General of THE Insight and Innovation Forum 2017
82-10-9137-2352, jungyeon.wee@gmail.com
Hemant Rai says:
July 16, 2018 at 12:15 pm (UTC 0)
Dear Ben ,
Our team is working on AI and memory transplantation from last three years and succeded in transforming the claculation done in brain A to brain B for brain B . We like to share our project work with you and looking ahead for support from your esteemed end.
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August 16, 2018 at 7:34 pm (UTC 0)
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January 25, 2019 at 3:58 pm (UTC 0)
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Mario Beeli de Belfort says:
April 15, 2019 at 3:25 pm (UTC 0)
Hi Ben,
I am fascinated by your persona-brain. I share quite similar values as you do.
Is there any way I could get newsletters or updates on your most recent work?
I am currently one of your biggest funs. If you ever needed someone to experiment, to make a super-human, I am ready! I believe in you Ben. The future can be absolutely amazing. Super AGI, interplanetary expansion and a universe of possibilities no one could ever, even dream of.
I believe in futuristic tomorrow. Since the young age I always knew I should have been born in The Jetsons cartoon kind of World.
Regards,
Mario Beeli
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