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”

University of Lugano laboratory at midnight University of Lugano auditorium

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