Machine of Human Dreams

Machine of Human Dreams

76 mins | Documentary | June 11, 2016

A.I. guru Ben Goertzel grew up in a hippie community in Oregon during the Vietnam War. Inspired by science fiction, he imagined a perfect rational world that would transcend 1970s’ America. Ben has dedicated his life to developing OpenCog, a software that models the human mind. If Ben’s design works, OpenCog will become a human-like general intelligence. But for OpenCog to work, it needs a body.

Machine of Human Dreams

76 mins | Documentary | June 11, 2016

Machine of Human Dreams
A.I. guru Ben Goertzel grew up in a hippie community in Oregon during the Vietnam War. Inspired by science fiction, he imagined a perfect rational world that would transcend 1970s’ America. Ben has dedicated his life to developing OpenCog, a software that models the human mind. If Ben’s design works, OpenCog will become a human-like general intelligence. But for OpenCog to work, it needs a body.
Producers Roast Beef Productions, Roy Cohen Productions
Original title Machine of Human Dreams
Directors Roy Cohen
Writers Roy Cohen