World-class artificial intelligence expert Ben Goertzel has officially become a senior consultant of the EpiK project. So who is Ben? Speaking of Ben Goertzel, we must mention Sophia, the world's first female robot citizen. The female robot Sophia is an outstanding product of the robotics company Hanson Robotics, developed by Ben Goertzel as the chief scientist.
(Sophia the robot citizen paints a portrait of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir)
When Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir was re-elected as prime minister, the robot Sophia had a one-on-one conversation with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir. In order to congratulate Mahathir on his re-election as the country's prime minister, the robot Sophia also drew His portrait was given as a birthday present. Later, the 94-year-old Mahathir joked to the media that the robot Sophia had a very vivid expression. When he first saw her, he was a little scared and speechless.
As a "speaking" social robot, she served as the United Nations Innovation Ambassador. In October 2017, Sophia was granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia, creating a history of robots having a nationality.
(Sophia delivered an inaugural speech as the United Nations Innovation Ambassador)
"In 2025, general artificial intelligence will reach the level of human brain intelligence, and it will far surpass human beings in the next 20 years." This sentence is probably the most widely circulated sentence at the 2016 Global Innovators Conference (GIC), from the chairman of the American General Artificial Intelligence Conference Conference talk by Ben Goertzel. On November 4, 2016, at the "2016 Global Innovators Conference" (GIC) held in Beijing, this long curly-haired, artistic AI guru introduced the concept of AGI, In addition to technological development trends and the latest research and development progress, it also boldly proposed that AGI will reach the intelligence level of the human brain in 9 years (that is, in 2025), far surpassing the intelligence of the human brain within 20 years, and even surpassing the intelligence of the human brain by a thousand times. Thousands of goals and predictions.
(Ben Goertzel interviewed at the GIC Summit)
For the circle of robotics and artificial intelligence, Ben Goertzel's most important identity is a leader in the field of artificial intelligence in the world, one of the top artificial intelligence scientists in the world, and he is also a leader and preacher in the field of general artificial intelligence (AGI) The author is a veritable authority.
In addition to publishing a number of books, as the chairman of the American General Artificial Intelligence Conference, he has led and held 5 AGI conferences since 2012. The conference locations are Oxford, Beijing, China, Quebec, Canada, Berlin, Germany, and New York, USA. The annual AGI conference is both an academic conference and an annual event in the field of artificial intelligence. It encourages interdisciplinary scientists to explore different methods to create more realistic and advanced artificial intelligence.
(SingularityNET founders Ben Goertzel and Sophia)
As the founder of SingularityNET, Ben Goertzel’s company (Chinese name: Singularity Network)’s token AGIX has been listed on Binance in 2018. The company’s main business is simply to establish a distributed network through blockchain and cryptocurrency. An open artificial intelligence trading market. Users can use digital currency to purchase AI services, and some developers are also free to sell corresponding services on it.
(SingularityNET token AGIX is listed on many well-known exchanges)
SingularityNET cooperates with EpiK Protocol to build a more powerful and rich medical knowledge graph system. Ben Goertze led the technology team to create the robot Grace. Unlike Sophia, Grace is built on a comprehensive knowledge graph network, enabling it to have sound recognition and judgment capabilities , and this is an extremely important assistant in the field of strong artificial intelligence focusing on medical health.
(Ben Goertz officially became a senior consultant of EpiK Protocol)
And the cooperation with EpiK Protocol, it is he saw that EpiK is using blockchain technology to realize the decentralized knowledge graph co-construction, sharing and win-win, which has a strong consistency with its adherence to the concept of artificial intelligence development. In the future, Ben Goertzl will join hands with EpiK to promote the development of AI intelligence.