‘Well, the end of aging and death wouldn’t be a bad thing’: The professor who coined the term AGI for superintelligence believes we’ll have human-level AI in ‘three to five years’

You may not have heard of Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO of the Alliance for Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) and founder of SingularityNET, the world’s first decentralized artificial intelligence platform, but his mission is to accelerate our progress to a point in history that is widely known. known as a singularity, when an AI becomes so intelligent that it surpasses human intelligence and enters a recursive sequence of self-improvement cycles, resulting in the emergence of an infinitely powerful superintelligence.

The term AGI (artificial general intelligence) was invented to describe superintelligence by a group that included Goertzel, Shane Legg, and Peter Voss when they were thinking about the title of a book that Goertzel was editing, in which Legg and Voss were the authors of the chapters. The book was published in 2005 under the title General artificial intelligenceand then Goertzel launched the AGI conference series in 2006. (He later discovered that physicist Mark Gubrud had used the term in a paper in 1997, so although it was Goertzel who introduced the term to the world and got it accepted, it was already appearing online.)