Ben Goertzel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ben Goertzel

author and researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1966

Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, bioinformatician, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Ben Goertzel (born December 8, 1966), is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI marketplace project. Goertzel is also the chief scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings; chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC, a privately held software company; chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation; vice chairman of futurist nonprofit Humanity+; scientific advisor of biopharma firm Genescient Corp.; advisor to Singularity University; research professor in the Fujian Key Lab for Brain-Like Intelligent Systems at Xiamen University of Technology, China; chair of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) conference series, and an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence.
He was the Director of Research of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute).Goertzel is the son of Ted Goertzel, a former professor of sociology at Rutgers University.
He left high school after the tenth grade to attend Bard College at Simon's Rock, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Quantitative Studies.
Goertzel went on to obtain a Ph.D.
in mathematics from Temple University in 1989.
He was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the robot Sophia, until early 2019.