Interview - Ben Goertzel May 2011 - p7 - by Adam A. Ford

Ben Goertzel is CEO of AI software company Novamente LLC and bioinformatics company Biomind LLC; leader of the open-source OpenCog Artificial General Intelligence software project; Chief Technology Officer of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; Director of Engineering of digital media firm Vzillion Inc.; Advisor to the Singularity University and Singularity Institute; Research Professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University, China; and general Chair of the Artificial General Intelligence conference series. His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas, He has published a dozen scientific books, over 100 technical papers, and numerous journalistic articles. Before entering the software industry he served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science, in the US, Australia and New Zealand. He has three children and too many pets, and in his spare time enjoys creating avant-garde fiction and music, and the outdoors.

==Building Better Minds==
No challenge today is more important than creating beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI), with broad capabilities at the human-level and ultimately beyond. OpenCog is an open-source software initiative aimed at directly confronting that challenge, using a long history of research and software engineering. It is the world's leading open-source AGI initiative — and arguably the world's leading AGI initiative of any kind.

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