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Prediction · AGI

Ben Goertzel on AGI

Said

A decade or less could be enough for a positive singularity if society made it a major priority.

Source summary · not a verbatim quotation.

The talk proposed a development path from virtual agents to more capable systems. OpenCog was presented as an approach to pursue, not an already human-level system.

Model / system named
OpenCog
Source notes

Primary author-hosted transcript, A Path to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence; title page identifies the 2009 New York summit.