Ben Goertzel

Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings and robotics firm Hanson Robotics Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC, which is a privately held software company Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation Vice Chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity Scientific Advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp. Advisor to the Singularity University Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for BrainLike Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series, an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He was the Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute .

In 1966, he was born to Carol and Ted Goertzel, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His parents are both American, and his heritage is mainly Eastern European Jewish. Because he was born in Brazil, Goertzel has a dual USBrazilian citizenship. In 1968, he moved to Eugene, Oregon and considered it to be an excellent, hippyful place, at that time. In 1973, he moved to suburban South Jersey. In 1982, he left highschool after the 10th grade to start university at ageat Simons Rock College, which he considered an outstanding institution that I highly recommend to all bright highschool age people. In 1984, at Simons Rock College, he met his future wife Gwen Yorgey .

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