Overview
The Cambrian explosion of AI in recent years requires novel and more inclusive approaches to its development. A decentralised marketplace that merges blockchain and AI to democratise AI will help shape the development of the industry.
Join SingularityNET's CEO & Founder, Dr. Ben Goertzel, as he discusses the benefits of decentralised AI and ways to grow the ecosystem. Discover how Fortune 500 firms as well as cutting edge startups, such as Rejuve, are harnessing the power of AI and a decentralised marketplace.
Date:18 June 2019, Tuesday
Time:6:00pm 8:00pm
Venue:BASH, Level 3, 79 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore 139955 via Lift Lobby 3
Speaker: Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO, SingularityNet
Programme Details:
6:00pm 6:30pm: Registration
6:30pm 7:30pm: Presentation and Q&A
7:30pm 8:00pm: Networking
Speaker's Profile:
Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO, SingularityNet
Dr. Ben Goertzel is one of the world's foremost experts in Artificial General Intelligence, a subfield of AI oriented toward creating thinking machines with general cognitive capability at the human level and beyond. He also has decades of expertise applying AI to practical problems in areas ranging from natural language processing and data mining to robotics, video gaming, national security and bioinformatics. He has published nearly 20 scientific books and 140+ scientific research papers and is the main architect and designer of the OpenCog system and associated design for human-level general intelligence.
Ben is the CEO of SingularityNET (a blockchain based AI platform company), and the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, a robotics company that creates the world's most advanced humanoid robots. Ben also serves as Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, which hosts the annual AGI research conference series, and the OpenCog Foundation.
Before relocating to Hong Kong in 2011, Dr.Goertzel held executive roles at AI consulting and product development firms in Washington DC (CEO, Chairman and Chief Scientist at Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC) and New York City (CTO at Webmind Inc.). Prior to that, he served as faculty in mathematics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in cognitive science as the University of Western Australia, and in computer science at Waikato University in New Zealand, at the City University of New York and at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Dr.Goertzel holds a PhD degree in mathematics from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
