Ben Goertzel's Recent LinkedIn Posts

I am working to actively bring about beneficial AGI, sooner rather than later. And I think you should probably be too. I have tried to lay out my reasons in a straightforward and reasonably concise way in this "Beneficial AGI. Manifesto" ...

Epic "AI for Good" event in Geneva, with s hilarious 9 robot press conference and a super fun Jam Galaxy Band concert to cap it off. Not to mention some fairly deep discussion of beneficial decentralized AGI, a topic suddenly starting to get at least a fraction of the interest it deserves...

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My quick take on DeepSeek, in TechRadar, https://lnkd.in/dTBHCxFv

Fantastic success for the first in a long series of SingularityNET / Hyperon MeTTa-language hackathons as part of the HackIndia series ;-) Congrats to the winners and many thanks to Nefertiti Strong for helping organize and to our partner company iCog Labs from Addis Ababa for sending MeTTa experts to India to help provide expert guidance...

So.... there has been some commentary online in recent days about my emails with Jeffrey Epstein as released in the “Epstein files,” and I felt compelled to post something to clarify .... I've done so in a 10 min video https://lnkd.in/grsmBdUv and also on my substack https://lnkd.in/gwi2t2ry Just to warn you though, my interaction with Epstein was basically fairly boring; I had nothing to do with his personal life, I never went to his island or flew on his plane ... I did meet him F2F a number of times, and over the years I did obtain a modest amount of AGI research funding from some of his foundations for some organizations helping with my AGI R&D. I was not in the know about his horrible crimes or I wouldn't have been dealing with him. Epstein's focus on centralizing power in himself was the exact opposite of what I’m after with my current work on decentralizing AGI and building an open and transparent Singularity. However, Epstein did recognize the value and importance of AGI well before the scientific or business mainstream, which is what led me into the funder-fundee relationship with him that feels so super unfortunate in hindsight.

A new take on "what is science, exactly?" -- I realized I could update my 20yo "Social-Computational-Probabilist" philosophy of science using modern AI theory (quantale weakness) and make it way more elegant. Among other things this led me to a very crisp characterization of what it will take to make an AGI that can fully and robustly do top-grade human-level science. A blog post is here, which links to a more thorough/detailed semi-technical paper... https://lnkd.in/gMTHyuCH

OpenClaw -- Amazing Hands for a Brain that Doesn't Yet Exist ... some thoughts about how to leverage OpenClaw within a richer cognitive architecture and how this could help us move toward AGI, https://lnkd.in/dRaRK9D5

A (n unsurprising) reaction to Yudkowsky and Soares's book on why they (foolishly) think if an AGI were created it would almost certainly kill us all..

Introducing Hyperseed-1: A Fairly Minimal “Core Ontology” for Possible Use in AGI Inference Guidance ... https://lnkd.in/gAfWguaG @OpenCog

Come see Desdemona Robot and me and the awesome Desdemona's Dream band perform weird music and poetry -- some AI-created and some human- ... at DROM in NYC East Village on Tuesday night !! Also if interested in implications of AI for the art and business of music, my colleagues and I are organizing an "AI Hub" with talks and panels and some jam sessions all day at the. MondoNYC event in Williamsburg.... Psyched to be passing thru NY once more, I don't get there often enough...

Wow, finally serious headway has been made on deriving the periodic table of elements from underlying quantum mechanics: the first 50 elements are done, using a combination of simulations (quantum Monte Carlo) and new math tricks... https://lnkd.in/dg74NC4u ... It had always vexed me that we couldn't derive chemistry from physics in this way.  Still vexing that we can't do it by pure analytical calculations, OTOH there's no reason to expect the physical universe to respect our limitations of patience, lifespan or short-term memory in the implicit calculations it makes... This sort of result is a reminder to me that the real nexus of cognition on the planet is the collective mind of scientists / engineers / artists / etc. ... PLUS our computing and communication machinery... From one neuron in the global brain to another ;) ...

~$1.2M of grants now available for helping us build various aspects of neural-symbolic-evolutionary AGI on OpenCog Hyperon platform ... See https://lnkd.in/d_Gn9yRA .... Transformer NNs are super cool but only a piece of the AGI puzzle. We are recruiting AI devs to work on a number of the other pieces, which we have figured out how to piece toward AGI using the PRIMUS design on Hyperon platform, centered on our new MeTTa AGI language. Let's get rational, compassionate, beneficial, decentralized and democratized AGI built first -- before Big Tech and Big Gov't get too close to AGI with their centralized AI systems lacking any deep understanding of self and other and objectifying people toward narrow goals.

Interesting tentative finding, that the drive to abstraction and generalization is baked into the operation of human long term memory and interplay btw our different memory stores,

Why the Good Guys Will Usually Win (in real life too) -- a Sketch of an Argument ... (blog post by me)

Evolving Deeply Ethical and Joyously Conscious AGI systems via Paraconsistency and Nonlinear Resonance -- new blog post by me, linking to an in-depth technical paper: https:// https://lnkd.in/gDpmZdUs l/p/evolving-deeply-ethical-and-joyously?r=6oxx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true ... I give in the paper a formal model of non-dual motivational systems (combining contradictory aspects like acceptance and compassion/change-oreintation, or individuation vs. adventurous self-transcendence/transformation) using paraconsistent logic and nonlinear-dynamical resonance I use this to model the transitions to progressively more advanced states of "non-symbolic consciousness" (e.g. Jeffery Martin's "consciousness Locations") as nonlinear-dynamical bifurcations ... This gives a fairly deep way to think about AGI ethics, in terms of the consciousness-states and internal resonance phenomena of the AGI mind itself, not just shallow analysis of an AI system's verbal productions...

Will Artificial General Intelligence lead to human extinction or to unprecedented flourishing? This question is explored in a two-hour debate between Dr. Ben Goertzel and Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on the Mindplex.ai Podcast, hosted by Dr. Mihaela Ulieru. The discussion addresses concrete points of disagreement on AI alignment, risk thresholds, pathways from current AI systems to AGI and superintelligence, and the feasibility of global-scale governance and safety mechanisms. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dmiMgZkj

How smart is GPT o1 ? I've been messing around with it a fair bit these last weeks and come to some clear conclusions, written up in a couple blog posts: GPT o1 -- A Big Step, But Not Exactly Towards AGI https://lnkd.in/dAD55z4X GPT o1 Does Not Know What It's Doing A Simple Python Coding Example https://lnkd.in/dTqaRYfB

If you'll be around Austin end of May, e.g. for Consensus event, please sign up for our nearby AI-music-film gig at the Purple Bee, https://lu.ma/uxplk9t0 ... Desdemona robot has a shiny new singing voice to show off, along with other AI-generated goodies -- and even some NFTs associated w/ our forthcoming docuseries "Beyond the Code"...

Clear-minded, elegant, future-thinking blog post by Chris Kudla, CEO of our Seattle social-humanoid-robot company Mind Children ... highlighting what we're doing with the Codey robot and aspects of why:

We are thrilled to announce that CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel will speak at the HDC Eclipse Conference co-organized by Simuli, SingularityNET, and AGI Society on Tuesday, October 17, at 1:00 PM PDT. The HDC Eclipse Conference is an opportunity to learn from the world's leading experts, network with other AGI enthusiasts, and experience the awe of a solar eclipse. Over four enlightening days, attendees will participate in a seamless blend of celestial phenomena and groundbreaking discussions on the emerging field of Artificial General Intelligence. With topics ranging from alignment to hyperdimensional computing to programming to deep learning to hardware, there is something for everyone at this must-attend event. Join us from Oct 14-17 for a truly unforgettable experience that will challenge your thinking about human-level AGI: https://lnkd.in/e3kYP64h

Evidence is to Logic what Energy is to Physics ... from a simple analogy/mathematical-mapping to a derivation of Quantum Logic Networks for general scalable quantum reasoning on quantum computers...

LeCun's "Superhuman Adaptable Intelligence" is a special case of AGI , not an alternative... in-depth blog post by me, https://lnkd.in/g9zbAATd Taking familiar ideas he has long rejected and re-presenting and rebranding them as his own, is sorta par for the course for the glorious Dr. LeCun of course... Gary Marcus knows that story ;) ... In this case, his SAI is straightforwardly shown to be a special case of decades-old definitions of AGI under some special assumptions... and these assumptions are reasonable but not really quite adequate: they leave out key stuff like safety and open-ended evolution...

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Anyone in Seattle area please join us July 15 afternoon for a funky debate on the future of humanity & AGI btw Desdemona Robot and Codey the Mind Child ... see event details here...

My friend/bandmate Danny Newcomb making great progress w/ our Incantio project aimed at AI-based search of indie/independent-music ....

Cool SXSW 2024 panel on "Generative AI and Creativity" planned w. me, @Plinz , @RanaGujral @KarimAbouelnaga ... upvote if you want to see it.. my take ofc is a real AGI arch. is needed for fundamental creativity rather than shallow remixing https://lnkd.in/ekFrBkgu

Beyond Human Comparison: Extending DeepMind’s AGI-Test Framework with Imagination, Beneficial Agency, and Pressure Robustness ...

🌟 Exciting times at @longevitysummitdublin! 🚀 Join us at our booth and meet CEO Jasmine Smith. Discover the incredible synergy of AI and blockchain shaping the future of longevity. Say hi and be part of the transformation! #LongevitySummit #AIandBlockchain #FutureOfLongevity

Three things the world doesn't yet grok about AGI: 1: The Current “Default Path”to AGI Is Not the Only Path – and Maybe Not Even a Viable Path (LLMs can be a valuable ingredient but not the core mind-loop or memory-structure) 2: Decentralizing AI Is Highly Viable (in terms of control and guidance, not just physical infra) 3: The Level of Consciousness That Creates AGI Will Influence the AGI’s Level of Consciousness

I've been playing a bit with some new ways of thinking about (classical & quantum) brain dynamics: https://lnkd.in/g6FdZCKg ... Deep neural nets are great as far as they go but they leave a lot of what happens in brains on the table. Via mappings of optimal-control equations into fluid-dynamics equations on the one hand, and quantum-mechanics equations on the other... one can model the brain as a synergetic, resonating combination of a "fluidic neural network" and a macrosopic-quantum-network ... where the quantum aspect is generally weak but can potentially be consequential when the fluidic network reaches bifurcation points.... Speculative stuff but I believe consistent with known neuroscience data -- and also giving us a reminder that we could really use a lot more neuroscience data, our understanding of brain dynamics remains quite limited... While my current preferred approach to AGI (Hyperon) is very much not brain modeling based, there are still some lessons for Hyperon AGI from this sort of investigation -- but I'll lay some of these out in a follow-on post...

Enjoying Amsterdam and TNW event for a couple days... as expected the enthusiasm for AI and also curiosity about AGI is quite high...

Hyperseed v2: Toward a Semantic-Primitive-Based Ontology that Actually Does Something ... new blog post by me: https://lnkd.in/gbz2v56i Hyperseed v2 is both a new and pretty interesting philosophy of life, the universe and everything -- with a postmodern, relativist, Buddhistic flavor expressed with an analytical-philosophy++ level of mathematical precision ... and a tool for exponentially speeding up creative reasoning in AI systems, especially for cases that require a combination of rigor, imagination and cross-domain thinking.

This was a fun performance from early 2022 !!… My love & muse Ruiting reading Chuang Tzu in Chinese, the Desdemona robot performing improvised AI poetry riffing on Chuang Tzu themes, and me trying and occasionally succeeding to sound Oriental with pentatonic ramblings, along with the awesome Desdemona's Dream band in a mellower vibe than usual … AI-generated images by my long-time friend Ed Keller using Wombo Dream software and etc. etc.… https://lnkd.in/dT-DJVjc

SingularityNET will co-organize the 18th Annual AGI Conference (AGI-25) from August 10–13, 2025, at Reykjavík University, Iceland. AGI-25 will offer both in-person and virtual participation options for authors, presenters, and attendees. The Conference invites submissions of original papers and workshop and tutorial proposals. Several awards will be presented at the Conference, including the Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Paper, the Springer Prize, the AGI Society Prize, and the OpenCog Foundation Best Student Paper Prize. Paper submissions are due by April 12th, 2025, while workshop and tutorial proposals should be submitted by May 3rd, 2025. For submission requirements, templates, and topic guidelines, please visit the Conference website at https://lnkd.in/eKbY2q43

My thoughts on the "LLM Spiritual Bliss Attractor" and its possible broader implications ;) ... in Mindplex Magazine...

Where Energy and AI Wars Collide: Why Decentralized AGI Matters for World Peace ... new blog post by me https://lnkd.in/g7HZQMsM

Thinking about the emergent collective consciousness in OSS projects, which sometimes can be quite "enlightened" in a way even when the individual participants are mostly way less so... "The Architecture of Collective Non-Ego: How and Why Open Source Communities Sometimes Emerge a Higher Level of Consciousness than Their Individual Participants"

"Provably Safe AI" is making the rounds again these days -- I think it's a valuable area for investigation, an ultimately unachievable goal, and potentially a very very dangerous idea !!

Quantumity is in the relation to the observer!! -- It sounds weird but the math bears it out -- sometimes a smaller system should view a larger "classical" system as a "quantum" system... Furthermore, a sufficiently complex classical system should often model ITSELF as a quantum system (roughly: because its deliberative core cannot fully perceive or model its own overall state). I lay out the arguments in detail here:

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