Mondo.NYC Speaker
Ben Goertzel
CEO, SingularityNET
Dr. Ben Goertzel is a cross-disciplinary scientist, entrepreneur and author. He leads the SingularityNET Foundation, the OpenCog Foundation, and the AGI Society which runs the annual Artificial General Intelligence conference.
Dr. Goertzel also chairs the futurist nonprofit Humanity+, serves as Chief Scientist of AI firms Rejuve, Mindplex, Cogito and Jam Galaxy, all parts of the SingularityNET ecosystem, and serves as keyboardist and vocalist in the Jam Galaxy Band, the first-ever band led by a humanoid robot.
As Chief Scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics, he led the software team behind the Sophia robot; as Chief AI Scientist of Awakening Health he leads the team crafting the mind behind Sophia’s little sister Grace.
Before entering the software industry Dr. Goertzel obtained his PhD in mathematics from Temple University in 1989 and served as a university faculty in several departments of mathematics, computer science and cognitive science in the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Welcome: Artificial General Intelligence is Coming for Music -- For Better or Worse (or Both)
10/10/23, 1:30 PM
How can the accelerating advance of AI technology be leveraged to enable new dimensions of human musical creativity and collaboration? How can music and musicians help drive the growth of AI toward AGi in positive and creative ways?