Longevity

Ben Goertzel recently presented on his views of AI and life extension at the TEDxHKUST event in Hong Kong.

B en Goertzel is an author and prolific researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He leads dual AI software companies in the US and his work on use of artificial intelligence for the analysis of financial markets has been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.

Goertzel is focused on creating benevolent superhuman artificial general intelligence, pursuing vocations like bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, avant-garde fiction, cosmic engineering, weird music and philosophy and lots of other crazy stuff. One day, he hopes to become radically transhuman  —  to live indefinitely.

Goertzel proposes that radical human life extension might be the result of two advances:

1) Technology advancing might bring with it technologies that extend a healthy human life.
2) With a Singularity in 2045, it would be a shame to miss it by a few years.

Using artificial intelligence, Goertzel hypothesizes that ageing can  be extended by using greater-than human intelligences to understand and control our biology.  He also sees value in applying "narrow AI" for the specific problems of aging.

As a back-up plan, Goertzel has made plans with Alcor to freeze his head at the event of death.




SOURCE  TEDxTalks

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