![]() ![]() The founder and CEO of SingularityNET, Goertzel is also the chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation. Goertzel is just the right person to speak about human potential in the age of A.I. for the Modern Business, and I sought to tap into the cultural zeitgeist on this subject by interviewing Ben Goertzel. Recently, Michael Ashley, my coauthor of the upcoming book, Uber Yourself Before You Get Kodaked: A Modern Primer on A.I. Just consider: Here we are, a little shy of 30 years from Vinge’s prediction and the reality of transhumanism has not just caught on with the general public as a distinct possibility - it has become a living, breathing reality. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Yet, here was Vinge boldly proclaiming: “W ithin thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. ![]() The Internet itself, now so vital to all aspects of our life - communication, commerce, and entertainment - was in its infancy. Back then, the invention of smartphones and social media platforms were years away. To truly grasp the significance of Vinge’s thinking, it’s important to realize where we were as a society in the early 1990s. For years, Kurzweil has been pushing the cultural conversation toward the idea of human transcendence with thought-provoking books: The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.Īlthough Kurzweil has gained much notoriety for proposing provocative ideas in the latter book, such as, “The Singularity will represent the culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that is still human but that transcends our biological roots,” the term “singularity” originated in a 1993 essay, The Coming Technological Singularity, by science fiction author and professor Vernor Vinge. In 2011, Steven Levy made this bold statement about the company in the book, In the Plex: “From the very start, its founders saw Google as a vehicle to realize the dream of artificial intelligence in augmenting humanity.” Naturally, it makes sense Google would bring on Kurzweil to be its Director of Engineering in 2012. It’s no secret that Google has transhumanistic aspirations. Considering Kurzweil’s words is a good place to begin this discussion.
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