PROPERTIES OF AI "KINDS OF MINDS"

From: Julie Hillan (jhillan_at_alum.rpi.edu)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: 22 Aug 2004 12:50:38 -0700

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PROPERTIES OF AI "KINDS OF MINDS"

August 22, 2004 -- Frontiernumber4 (FN4)

Frontiernumber4 (FN4) Magazine is currently featuring Ben Goertzel's
new essay, "Kinds of Minds".

"One of the many confusions that one finds in the literature on
cognitive science, AI and philosophy of mind has to do with the
distinction between different kinds of mind," Goertzel states. "Very
few theorists make the effort to distinguish properties of minds in
general from properties of human minds in particular."

Ben Goertzel is the primary founder of AGIRI, and the chief
intellectual force behind the Novamente AI system. Currently he is the
CEO and Chief Scientist of Biomind LLC, a firm established to apply
Novamente AI software in the bioinformatics domain. He also leads
Novamente LLC, a small firm established to apply Novamente technology
in other commercial areas. Previously he was the founder of Webmind
Inc. and served that firm as CTO and Chairman from 1997-2001. He
received his PhD in mathematics from Temple University in 1989, and
following that he held several university faculty positions in
mathematics, computer science, and psychology, in the US, New Zealand
and Australia. He is author of numerous research papers and
journalistic articles, a biography of Linus Pauling, and five
scholarly books dealing with topics in the cognitive sciences,
including Chaotic Logic (Plenum Press, 1994), and Creating Internet
Intelligence (Plenum Press, 2001). Ben Goertzel's current primary
research focus is the Novamente AI Engine, an ambitious AI
architecture aimed at true "artificial general intelligence." See
agiri.org for more details.

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