Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years – but that’s a good thing, says US-Brazil researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru.
Mathematician, cognitive scientist and renowned robot-maker Goertzel, 56, is the founder and chief executive of SingularityNet, a research group he launched to create “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI — artificial intelligence with human cognitive abilities.
With his long hair and leopard-print cowboy hat, Goertzel was in provocative mode last week at the world’s biggest annual technology conference, Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where he told AFP in an interview that AGI is still a few years away. and spoke against it. Recent attempts to curtail artificial intelligence research.