Ben Goertzel

Ben Goertzel is an entrepreneur, scientist, and AI enthusiast who serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SingularityNET. He is the chairman of the OpenCog Foundation and the Artificial Intelligence Society. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Temple University and his Bachelor's degree in Quantitative Studies from Columbia University. He was Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, formerly the  Singularity Institute. He defines intelligence as the ability to detect patterns in the world and in the agent itself, measurable in terms of emergent behaviour of “achieving complex goals in complex environments”. Ben made huge contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and robotics, which earned him recognition as a leading thinker in the AI community.