Home Lex Fridman Episode
Lex Fridman · 2020-06-22

Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103

Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #103

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

MediaReferenced

Star Trek (original TV series)

Gene Roddenberry (inferred)

“wasn't a book but the original Star Trek TV show which my dad watched with me like in its first run”— Ben Goertzel
BookReferencedISBN verified

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem

“it would have been H Stanis LM the the Polish writer yeah Solaris and then he had a bunch of more obscure writings”— Ben Goertzel
BookReferencedISBN verified

Godel, Escher, Bach

Douglas Hofstadter

“I discovered Douglas Hoffer's book gordal shabbach and that was sort of to the same point of AI and Paradox and logic”— Ben Goertzel
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Prometheus Project

Gerald Feinberg

“Gerald fbom who was a physicist at Princeton and that was the Prometheus project and this book was written in the late 1960s”— Ben Goertzel
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Phenomenon of Science

Valentin Turchin

“he had a book in the late 60s in Russia which was the phenomenon of science which laid out all these same things as well”— Ben Goertzel
BookReferenced

Universal AI

Marcus Hutter

“Marcus Hooter who at that time hadn't yet published his book Universal AI which sort of gives a mathematical foundation for artificial general intelligence”— Ben Goertzel
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Will to Power

Friedrich Nietzsche

“if you look in like the third part of the collection that's been titled the will to power in book three there's very deep analysis of thinking processes”— Ben Goertzel
ProductReferenced

IBM Watson

IBM

“it pushes you towards uh IBM Watson situation where you basically have to do heuristic and hardcode stuff and Rule based stuff”— Ben Goertzel