Prizes

This year the AGI conference bestowed four prizes for exceptional contributions to the AGI field:

  • Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Paper ($1250): Alexey Potapov, Sergey Rodionov, Maxim Peterson, Oleg Scherbakov, Innokentii Zhdanov and Nikolai Skorobogatko. “Vision System for AGI: Problems and Directions”
  • Springer Best Paper Award (€1000): Mark Wernsdorfer. “How Failure Facilitates Success”
  • Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Idea ($1000): Alexey Potapov, Innokentii Zhdanov, Oleg Scherbakov, Nikolai Skorobogatko, Hugo Latapie and Enzo Fenoglio. “Semantic Image Retrieval by Uniting Deep Neural Networks and Cognitive Architectures”
  • OpenCog Foundation Prize for Best Student Paper ($250): Ondřej Vadinský. “Towards General Evaluation of Intelligent Systems: Using Semantic Analysis to Improve Environments in the AIQ Test”