In August Startup Grind's focus is blockchain. The goal is to get you up to speed with the latest cutting edge applications of this most paradigm shifting technology. We're hosting Dr. Ben Goertzel, Ph.D and his team to talk about how they are building a sophisticated AI (Artificial Intelligence) Blockchain network to accelerate the pace of technological advancement and use of AI.
We'll cover the fundamentals of an AI Blockchain integrated system, its scalability, and more advanced use cases developed on the top of blockchain technology. There will also be time for the Q&A with Ben and his team from SingularityNET.
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About SingularityNET
SingularityNET is a novel, powerful platform aimed at delivering a diversity of AI algorithms across multiple vertical markets, and focused on next-generation features such as transfer learning and general intelligence. Unlike centralized solutions provided by big tech companies, SingularityNET is powered by a decentralized protocol, allowing anyone to create, share, interoperate and monetize AI services at scale. We have gathered the leading minds in machine learning and blockchain to democratize creation of, and access to, the world’s most advanced AI.
SingularityNET
CEO & Chief Scientist
Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET.io. Widely known as the “father of artificial general intelligence,” Ben also serves as Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, which hosts the annual AGI research conference series, and the OpenCog Foundation, an organization leading international development of advanced open source AI tools. Dr. Goertzel is Chief Scienti…
Ben Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET.io. Widely known as the “father of artificial general intelligence,” Ben also serves as Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society, which hosts the annual AGI research conference series, and the OpenCog Foundation, an organization leading international development of advanced open source AI tools. Dr. Goertzel is Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong robotics company that is the creator of Sophia, one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robot. He is also active in other AI domains including bioinformatics (where he is Chief AI Advisor of Mozi Health), finance, national security, natural language processing, and many others. He has published 150 scientific articles and 15+ scientific books in the field of A.I.
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. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and raised mainly in the US, Dr. Goertzel holds a PhD degree in mathematics from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.
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