Machine of Human Dreams (2016)

Directed by

Roy Cohen

Genre

documentary

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows AI researcher Dr. Ben Goertzel over many years as he works to build a thinking machine. It shows his hopeful vision, technical challenges, and the personal motivation behind scientific ambition.

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What happens

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. The film offers a portrait of Goertzel's decades-long quest to create a thinking machine, and captures his idealism, technological struggles and the human drive fueling scientific ambition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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