Dr. Ben Goertzel

“this is well known that like most of the technology inside a smartphone was funded by US government, a little by European government, GPS and the batteries and…”

Goertzel claims most smartphone technology, including GPS and batteries, was funded/developed by government (mostly US) rather than private industry, with companies merely scaling it up.

“we have to get the us government to give billions of dollars to your research to guarantee that the singularity in 2012 is a good singularity, right? So he led…”

Goertzel recounts that around 2007 a McKenna-inspired associate tried to get billions of dollars in US government funding for his and Hugo de Garis's AI research to ensure a 'positive' technological singularity by 2012.

“i would like to get a human level general intelligence in five to seven years from now”

Goertzel predicts human-level artificial general intelligence will be achieved within five to seven years of this 2019 interview (i.e., roughly 2024-2026).

“there's no evidence that human cognition relies on quantum effects in the human brain. Like based on everything we know about neuroscience now, it seems not to…”

Goertzel states there is no scientific evidence that human cognition depends on quantum effects in the brain.