AGI-10 Press Release
Our Invited Speakers page

Presenters of papers will have 15 minutes; presenters of position statements 3 minutes. Sessions will also finish with a group discussion of about 25 minutes.

Posters should ideally be on A0 paper.

Friday, March 5
PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS, 10:30 – 17:20

  • Marcus Hutter (ANU): Universal Artificial Intelligence, 10:30-11:30
  • Moshe Looks (Google): Automated Program Learning, 11:45-12:45
  • Ben Goertzel (Novamente LLC & Xiamen University): Using Virtual Agents and Physical Robots for AGI Research, 14:45-15:45
  • Randal Koene (Tecnalia):  Neural Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning: How Spreading Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex can implement Reinforcement Learning for Goal-Directed Tasks, 16:00-17:00.

OPENING RECEPTION, 18:00 – 19:30 (outside the auditorium)

(A large buffet meal to welcome the conference)

KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 19:45 – 21:15

Richard Sutton, University of Alberta

Richard Sutton, author with Andrew Barto of Reinforcement Learning: an Introduction, is a Professor at the University of Alberta and one of the key figures in the field of artificial intelligence and learning.

Saturday, March 6

Intro: Past & Future of AGI, 8:30 – 9:30

  • Ben Goertzel, Marcus Hutter, Juergen Schmidhuber

Session 1: AGI Evaluation, Chair: Moshe Looks, 9:30 – 11:00

Short position statements:

INVITED LECTURE, 11:30 – 13:00

Randal Koene, Whole Brain Emulation: Issues of scope and resolution, and the need for new methods of in-vivo recording

Randal Koene is the director of the Department of Neuroengineering, Fatronik-Tecnalia Foundation. His research objective, Whole Brain Emulation, is very exciting to the AGI field.

Session 2: Cognitive Architectures, Chair: Benjamin Johnston, 14:15 – 15:45

Short position statement:

Session 3: Adaptive Agents, Chair: Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, 16:15 – 18:15

Short position statements:

Poster Session, 20:00 – 23:00

Poster presentation of short position statements

Sunday, March 7

Session 4: Universal Search, Chair: Shane Legg, 8:30 – 10:00

Short position statement:

Session 5: Aspects of Reasoning, Chair: Kristinn Thorisson, 10:30 – 12:30

Short position statement:

Session 6: Machine Learning, Chair: Josh Hall, 14:00 – 15:30

Session 7: Visions & Ideas, Chair: Ben Goertzel, 16:00 – 17:10

Short position statements:

AGI System Demonstrations, 17:30 – 19:00

“AGI Machines”

Monday, March 8

WORKSHOP, 8:30 – 11:40

“Toward a Serious Computational Science of Intelligence”

  • SCSI Overview & Introduction, 8:30 – 8:45
    Selmer Bringsjord & Naveen Sundar G.
  • In Memoriam: John Pollock, AGI, and SCSI, 8:45 – 9:00
    Selmer Bringsjord
  • My Approach to, and Thoughts on, SCSI — Encapsulated, 9:00 – 9:30
    Marcus Hutter
  • How should we get serious about developing AGI? 9:30 – 10:00
    Shane Legg

    • Coffee break, 10:00-10:30

  • Theories of Artificial Intelligence — Meta-theoretical considerations, 10:30 – 11:00
    Pei Wang
  • Open Discussion & Debate, 11:00 – 12:00
    moderated by Selmer Bringsjord

BUSINESS MEETING, 12:00-13:00

  • Next: Journal issues, etc.
  • AGI-11, AGI-12 and beyond
  • Journal of AGI
  • AGI-Network
  • Other issues relevant to the AGI community raised by participants

Lunch in the university cafeteria (with voucher), 13:15-14:00

FINAL WORKSHOP, 14:00- 17:00 (open ended)

“Roadmaps to AGI and the Future of AGI”

  • An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity,
    Anders Sandberg
  • Symbiotic AGI and Emergent Intelligence: Is a Planet Enough?
    David Orban
  • Bootstrapping safe AGI goal systems
    Roko Mijic
  • Remarks on AGI Ethics
    Mark Waser
  • A Roadmap to Human-Level AGI: Report of the Conclusions of the Oct 2008 “AGI Roadmap Workshop”,
    Ben Goertzel

University of Lugano laboratory at midnight University of Lugano auditorium

Pictures from the University of Lugano conference venue © Università della Svizzera italiana.