home > archives > Ben Goertzel Archive October 24, 2007 Of Mice
and Mitochondria... Applying AI to Bioinformatics to Cure
Disease - Interview with Ben Goertzel - Part 1  I tracked Ben
Goertzel down at the Virtual Worlds conference on October 11,
2007.  Ben's company, Biomind, attempts to address the current
disconnect between three different scientific communities that
really need to work together in order to find answers:
biologists, bioinformaticists and the artificial intelligence
community. As a result of this disconnect, biologists are not
making the most out of their research data.   After talking to
him an hour about the Novamente Cognition Engine that will soon
be used in conjunction with Second Life avatars and an HTTP
proxy created by the Electric Sheep Company to train dogs in
Second Life, Ben casually mentioned a couple of examples of the
technology of his other company, Biomind, that "blew my little
(bio)mind" when I learned about what its software has been
learning.  We'll get to training dogs i