Machine of Human Dreams

Machine of Human Dreams (2016)

Artificial Intelligence Begins with Human Passion

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.

Date of release
2016-06-11
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Roy Cohen

Casting

Interesting facts

Machine of Human Dreams is a 2016 documentary film written and directed by Roy Cohen. The film focuses on artificial intelligence researcher Dr. Ben Goertzel, known for his work on OpenCog, an open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) platform.

Production

Director Cohen first met Goertzel at a conference in New York, where he became interested in Goertzel's combination of visionary goals and practical attempts to develop a "thinking machine." The documentary was filmed over several years across multiple international locations, including laboratories at Hong Kong, and research projects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Cohen documented both the progress and setbacks of Goertzel's work, including instances of malfunctioning prototypes and challenges in securing financial support.

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