Amazing Progress in Artificial Intelligence – Ben Goertzel


Join us in Melbourne on April 22nd to champion science as a pillar of human prosperity! This will be huge – invite everyone to come – yes, everyone! WHEN: EARTH DAY, 22nd April 2017 WHERE: Melbourne (Schedule & Location TBA) WHY: Among other things, a global event bringing together people from all walks of life…
Do LLMs have metacognition? What happens when machines begin to “think about thinking”? At Future Day 2025, we hosted an in-depth discussion on metacognition in large language models (LLMs) – with insights from researcher Shun Yoshizawa, supervised by neuroscientist Dr Ken Mogi at Sony Computer Science Laboratories. Together, we explored the current state of metacognitive…
Interview with John Wilkins: Every so often, somebody will attack the worth, role or relevance of philosophy on the internets, as I have discussed before. Occasionally it will be a scientist, who usually conflates philosophy with theology. This is as bad as someone assuming that because I do some philosophy I must have the Meaning…
Transcript of interview with Peter Singer on ‘The Life You Can Save‘: I’ve been writing & thinking about the question of global poverty and what affluent people ought to do about it for more than four years now. The first article I published on that ‘Famine Affluence & Morality’ came out in 1972. But I’d…
Projects at SENS Foundation Sens Foundation has a lot of projects that were working on all at the same time. There are 3 projects that we are working on at our research center in California and then there are a whole bunch of others that we support at university laboratories around the world – mostly…
Fascinating interview with Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty on the COVID-19 pandemic, the nature of COVID-19, where it came from, it’s similarities to influenza other coronaviruses (i.e. SARS, MERS), how infectivity works, what we as citizens can do to stay safe and help minimise the burden on our health systems, achieving rapid responses to pandemics,…