Machine of Human Dreams
A.I. guru Ben Goertzel grew up in a hippie community in Oregon during the Vietnam War. Inspired by science fiction, he imagined a perfect rational world that would transcend 1970s’ America. Ben has dedicated his life to developing OpenCog, a software that models the human mind. If Ben’s design works, OpenCog will become a human-like general intelligence. But for OpenCog to work, it needs a body.
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Genre: Documentary
Director: Roy Cohen
Actors: Aaron D. Nitzkin, Ben Goertzel, Carol Goertzel, David Hanson, Gino Yu, Gwen Aranya Goertzel, Ken Silverman, Lisa Pazer, Mandeep Bhatia, Mark W. Tilden
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